Knowing the User Is Not Knowing What We Established: Grounding Awareness in Personal Agents
Personal-agent memory has largely focused on learning what users know, prefer, and want. However, knowing the user does not necessarily mean knowing what the user and the agent have established together. An assistant's proposal should not become an authorized instruction merely because it is remembered. We introduce Grounding Awareness, the ability to distinguish accepted, unacknowledged, revised, and scoped arrangements when selecting actions. We develop a controlled benchmark to test whether agents can tell the difference between proposals users have accepted and those they have not, and whether they apply accepted arrangements only where appropriate. Across multiple agents and memory s...
| Authors | Jiajun Chen, Xinyue Chen, Yicheng Jiang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 13 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 13 October 2026 |
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