From Plan to Action: How Well Do Agents Follow the Plan?

arXiv:2604.12147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agents aspire to eliminate the need for task-specific prompt crafting through autonomous reason-act-observe loops. Still, they are commonly instructed to follow a task-specific plan for guidance, e.g., to resolve software issues following phases for navigation, reproduction, patch, and validation. Unfortunately, it is unknown to what extent agents actually follow such instructed plans. Without such an analysis, determining the extent agents compl