Root-Cause Attribution Is a Search Problem: Continual Search for Long-Horizon Agent Failures

arXiv cs.AISeptember 15, 2026en

arXiv:2609.13463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing deployment of AI agents in long-horizon tasks yields massive execution logs. Diagnosing failures within these records is crucial for reliability, as it transforms outcome-level signals into actionable interventions. The sheer scale of the data renders human review impractical, driving the need for automated root-cause attribution (RCA). However, automated RCA methods using LLMs suffer from low diagnostic accuracy, especially as execution traces grow larger. They struggle because relevant information is often sparse, distributed across distant actions, and disconnected from the visible failure, reducing root-cause attribution to a

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