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Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy

As of 9 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 28 of 28 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.11294.

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Observation 9951ea78-3d3a-4b6c-b9d0-1998109bcfb5 · outbound

This paper cites Agent design pattern catalogue: A collection of architectural patterns for foundation model based agents.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy Agent design pattern catalogue: A collection of architectural patterns for foundation model based agents

Reference 1

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This paper cites Multi-agent design: Optimizing agents with better prompts and topologies.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy Multi-agent design: Optimizing agents with better prompts and topologies

Reference 2

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This paper cites Langchain.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy Langchain

Reference 3

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Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Autogen: Enabling next-gen llm applications via multi-agent conversations.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy Autogen: Enabling next-gen llm applications via multi-agent conversations

Reference 5

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Observation 6f497f21-a97b-4141-83d3-3e772281a349 · outbound

This paper cites Metagpt: Meta programming for a multi-agent collaborative framework.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy Metagpt: Meta programming for a multi-agent collaborative framework

Reference 6

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Observation 9a72a537-4f7d-4919-9161-e28663c1a232 · outbound

This paper cites Finding structure in time.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy Finding structure in time

Reference 7

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Observation b69b77e7-d50c-45e0-9405-d34125d122b1 · outbound

This paper cites A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy A Survey of Self-Evolving Agents: What, When, How, and Where to Evolve on the Path to Artificial Super Intelligence

Reference 8

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Observation ad1a9f0a-0997-49a2-aca4-eec6dead01f5 · outbound

This paper cites Iterative Tool Usage Exploration for Multimodal Agents via Step-wise Preference Tuning.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy Iterative Tool Usage Exploration for Multimodal Agents via Step-wise Preference Tuning

Reference 9

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Observation 32f1ef0a-fe84-4df6-b804-d17cca32af85 · outbound

This paper cites Multi-modal Agent Tuning: Building a VLM-Driven Agent for Efficient Tool Usage.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy Multi-modal Agent Tuning: Building a VLM-Driven Agent for Efficient Tool Usage

Reference 10

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Observation 26a37f5e-53db-4158-ba61-e4b8bb4875cc · outbound

This paper cites SyncState.sync_state places the message into the message processing queue of Task State.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy SyncState.sync_state places the message into the message processing queue of Task State

Reference 11

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This paper cites • If no reply is needed: The receiver gets appended with a Process Message step (which doesn’t involve message delivery or replies to other entities).

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy • If no reply is needed: The receiver gets appended with a Process Message step (which doesn’t involve message delivery or replies to other entities)

Reference 12

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Observation 5cf6ffaa-0005-46c2-88ef-7b4b7e75593b · outbound

This paper cites no_stage.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy no_stage

Reference 13

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Observation 68ab3a00-52e8-4a13-9b43-79a87b0e9b48 · outbound

This paper cites • When waiting: The initiating Agent won’t execute any steps until all wait IDs are collected.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy • When waiting: The initiating Agent won’t execute any steps until all wait IDs are collected

Reference 14

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Reference 15

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Observation 58f5e689-6b20-45b3-b25e-520b66590df8 · outbound

This paper cites The Task Manager uses its own historical step information (such as previously obtained task and stage details) to generate commands for managing task progress.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy The Task Manager uses its own historical step information (such as previously obtained task and stage details) to generate commands for managing task progress

Reference 16

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This paper cites • Based on these descriptions, the agent decides whether to invoke the tool.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy • Based on these descriptions, the agent decides whether to invoke the tool

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This paper cites • The agent then selects which specific capability to invoke.

Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy • The agent then selects which specific capability to invoke

Reference 18

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Reference 22

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Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy persistent_memory

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Allen: Rethinking MAS Design through Step-Level Policy Autonomy waiting"] in the LLM-generated preliminary message body, and add the unique waiting ID to agent_state[

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