The Unreliable Progress Bar: Can LLM Agents Reliably Report Task Progress Throughout Execution?

arXiv:2609.08589 · cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-08

Updated: 2026-09-08

Comments: 33 pages, 13 figures, 20 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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