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I-PTC: Interactive Programmatic Tool Calling for Stateful Tool-Augmented Agents
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摘要
Large language models are increasingly capable of writing and executing code, suggesting a natural paradigm for tool-augmented agents: expressing tool use as programs rather than isolated calls. Programmatic tool calling (PTC) captures this idea through loops, batching, abstraction, and structured computation, but existing PTC approaches are largely stateless, limiting their ability to reuse intermediate results and adapt over time. This is problematic for real-world tasks, where tool environments and problem-solving processes are inherently stateful. We therefore present I-PTC, an interactive framework that executes stateful PTC: models issue code snippets that call tools, maintain reusable state, and evolve the tool interface through API corrections. To evaluate the effectiveness of I-PTC and the general PTC setting, we introduce PTC-Bench, a benchmark of long-tail, production-style user requests whose difficulty comes from large initial environments, many dependent API interactions, extended planning, and recovery across follow-ups and transient failures. Experiments on PTC-Bench show that I-PTC improves performance on complex multi-step tasks with large tool sets while substantially reducing token consumption over conventional tool-calling baselines and the original PTC baseline, highlighting stateful programmatic tool calling as a promising direction for scalable tool-augmented agents.
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I-PTC: Interactive Programmatic Tool Calling for Stateful Tool-Augmented Agents
Large language models are increasingly capable of writing and executing code, suggesting a natural paradigm for tool-augmented agents: expressing tool use as programs rather than isolated calls. Programmatic tool calling (PTC) captures this idea through loops, batching, abstraction, and structured computation, but existing PTC approaches are largely stateless, limiting their ability to reuse intermediate results and adapt over time. This is problematic for real-world tasks, where tool environments and problem-solving processes are inherently stateful. We therefore present I-PTC, an interactive framework that executes stateful PTC: models issue code snippets that call tools, maintain reusable state, and evolve the tool interface through API corrections. To evaluate the effectiveness of I-PTC and the general PTC setting, we introduce PTC-Bench, a benchmark of long-tail, production-style user requests whose difficulty comes from large initial environments, many dependent API interactions, extended planning, and recovery across follow-ups and transient failures. Experiments on PTC-Bench show that I-PTC improves performance on complex multi-step tasks with large tool sets while substantially reducing token consumption over conventional tool-calling baselines and the original PTC baseline, highlighting stateful programmatic tool calling as a promising direction for scalable tool-augmented agents.
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