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Are Tools All We Need? Unveiling the Tool-Use Tax in LLM Agents

ArXiv cs.AI · Tue, 05 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT

arXiv:2605.00136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented reasoning has become a popular direction for LLM-based agents, and it is widely assumed to improve reasoning and reliability. However, we demonstrate that this consensus does not always hold: in the presence of semant

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