Disentangle the sources of archive-assisted performance gains

Determine the separate contributions of agentic decision-making, workflow composition, individual archive entries, and archive expansion to the downstream performance of the archive-assisted Meta-Agent.

Background

The archive-assisted Meta-Agent can select and combine open-ended study, PREPING, and Corpus2Skill workflows, but the study does not include comparisons that isolate the effect of agentic selection from simpler workflow-selection mechanisms. It also does not perform ablations of individual archive entries or evaluate how performance changes when the archive is expanded. These unresolved comparisons prevent attribution of the observed gains to particular components of the archive-assisted design.

References

We therefore cannot pinpoint the value of agentic decision-making and workflow composition, the contribution of individual archive entries, or the effect of expanding the archive.

— Studying Without a Syllabus: Task-Agnostic Environment Preprocessing  (2609.10824 - Samuel et al., 9 Sep 2026) in Discussion and Limitations, Section 6