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ERRAND: Budgeted Maintenance of Agent Memory

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 2, 2026 · UTC

Deployed agents run on handed-over knowledge: a frozen policy consults a briefing of consolidated items written before the stream begins. The world then moves while the store stands still: paths close, flags change, price bands move; every item was true at handover, and the failure is staleness, not ignorance. We introduce ERRAND, which treats revalidation as a priced errand: a recheck competes with the task it protects for the same scarce actions, funded only when the value per action of resolving a doubt clears a running wage. The errand index is single-peaked, vanishing at both ends of beli

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