Before Agents Decide: Epistemic Action in LLM-Based Systems

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arXiv:2610.00511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Before a difficult decision, people often act simply to understand the situation better. We turn an object to see another side, place alternatives next to each other, or change one condition and observe what happens. These actions may not complete the task, but they improve the evidence needed for the next choice. LLM-based agents can search and explore, yet agent design gives less attention to an earlier question: is the available evidence ready for the decision? Sometimes necessary evidence is missing. In other cases, the evidence is present bu