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Equal Accuracy, Unequal Evidence: Search APIs as Decision Surfaces for Tool-Using Agents
arXiv cs.CL — Computation and Language
Factual evidence
What the source reports
Research finds search API outputs (snippets vs. full pages) significantly impact agent decision-making, even with equal underlying accuracy.
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Institutional assessment
So what
The paper demonstrates that how information is presented by search APIs directly influences agent behavior and performance, impacting the reliability of agentic systems in enterprise use cases.
Do what
Your architecture choices for retrieval-augmented agents, specifically around progressive disclosure from search APIs, directly affect system accuracy and must be validated through rigorous testing.