AI RESEARCH
BAGEN: Are LLM Agents Budget-Aware?
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2606.00198v1 Announce Type: cross While agents are increasingly spending resources, today agent cost is mostly measured only after execution. A Budget-Aware Agent (BAGEN) should treat budget as an active control signal, rather than a passive cost metric. We first systematically define budget estimation as internal budgets (from agent computation) and external budgets (from agent actions