Canonical Procedural Actions: An Auditable Annotation Protocol for Tool-Use Agent Traces

arXiv:2609.24264 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-21

Comments: 23 pages, 5 figures, 9 tables. Includes ancillary files for reproducing the reported analyses

Code: https://github.com/sierra-research/tau2-bench

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

Terminology

• Trace — 61× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstention — 17× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Provenance — 17× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Admissibility — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Action Chunking — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fingerprinting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ontology — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Agent trajectories as programs: fingerprinting and programming coding-agent behavior

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