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arxiv: 2605.08761 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-09 · 💻 cs.MA · cs.LG

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Beyond the All-in-One Agent: Benchmarking Role-Specialized Multi-Agent Collaboration in Enterprise Workflows

Changyu Li, Haopeng Jin, Hao Wang, Hongzhu Yi, Jiabing Yang, Jing-Shu Zheng, Liang Wang, Minghui Zhang, Shenghua Chai, Tao Yu, Xinming Wang, Xi Yang, Yan Huang, Yifan Zhang, Yuxuan Zhou, Zhaolu Kang, Zheqi He, Zhongtian Luo

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The pith

Experiments with a new enterprise benchmark show that LLM agents still struggle with collaboration across specialized roles.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Enterprise environments distribute work across specialized roles with strict permissions and approval processes, yet AI agent evaluations typically use single agents with full access or ignore these constraints. The paper introduces EntCollabBench to fill this gap by simulating a permission-isolated organization with 11 role-specialized agents in six departments. Agents are tested on collaborative workflow tasks that change system states and on making policy-based approval decisions. Evaluation uses objective measures like database state verification and policy rules instead of judging natural language. Results indicate that current models have trouble with delegation between agents, transferring context, correctly applying parameters, closing workflows, and committing to decisions.

Core claim

EntCollabBench simulates a permission-isolated organization with 11 role-specialized agents across six departments. It contains a Workflow subset for collaborative modification of enterprise system states and an Approval subset for policy-grounded decisions. Evaluation relies on execution traces, database state verification, and deterministic policy adjudication. Experiments demonstrate that representative LLM agents struggle with end-to-end enterprise collaboration, particularly in delegation, context transfer, parameter grounding, workflow closure, and decision commitment.

What carries the argument

EntCollabBench, a benchmark that models role-specialized multi-agent collaboration under enterprise constraints of permission isolation, stateful systems, and policy approvals.

If this is right

  • Improving agent performance on this benchmark would require advances in inter-agent communication and task handoff protocols.
  • Enterprise agent deployments should incorporate mechanisms for verifying system state changes and enforcing policy compliance.
  • Role specialization in multi-agent systems may be essential for handling permission-controlled and cross-departmental tasks.
  • The benchmark provides a testbed for iteratively developing more capable collaborative agent systems.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Single all-in-one agents may prove inadequate for enterprise settings, pushing development toward distributed multi-agent architectures.
  • Similar benchmarks could be developed for other complex environments such as legal or governmental workflows.
  • Addressing the identified collaboration gaps could accelerate practical adoption of AI agents in business operations.

Load-bearing premise

The simulated permission-isolated organization with 11 role-specialized agents across six departments sufficiently captures the key constraints of real enterprise environments.

What would settle it

Demonstrating that state-of-the-art LLM agents can complete a high percentage of the benchmark tasks with correct delegation, full workflow closure, and accurate decision commitment would falsify the claim of persistent struggles.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.08761 by Changyu Li, Haopeng Jin, Hao Wang, Hongzhu Yi, Jiabing Yang, Jing-Shu Zheng, Liang Wang, Minghui Zhang, Shenghua Chai, Tao Yu, Xinming Wang, Xi Yang, Yan Huang, Yifan Zhang, Yuxuan Zhou, Zhaolu Kang, Zheqi He, Zhongtian Luo.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of EntCollabBench with other enterprise benchmarks. Multi-Agent Collaboration Benchmarks. Early work on multi-agent evaluation centered on reinforcement learning, where SMAC [8] and Overcooked-AI [9] assessed cooperative strategies in game environments. In the LLM era, COMMA [10] evaluated communicative collaboration among multimodal agents under information asymmetry, MultiAgentBench [14] measu… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of EntCollabBench. The Workflow Track generates tasks across business domains and process intents, producing instances with different objects, events, agents, and artifacts. The Approval Track constructs requests from sampled rules with predicate satisfaction and optional perturbations. The Evaluation Environment includes 11 agents over 6 departments with controlled access to enterprise systems. T… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Dataset statistics. The benchmark contains 300 tasks: 160 workflow, 40 workflow multi-task, 80 approval, and 20 approval multi-task tasks, spanning six workflow and seven approval categories. Approval subset covers the Approval Center, whose three specialists (finance, legal, procurement) emit policy-grounded decisions rather than mutate exter￾nal system state. Given a submitted request, each involved spec… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Confusion Matrix of Consistency Between Model Evaluation and Human Judgments Provide concise rule-grounded reasoning aligned with the selected decision. If require_docs, name missing documents. If require_preapproval, name required approver/escalation path when available. # OUTPUT FORMAT DECISION:<approve|reject|require_preapproval|require_docs|out of scope|error>, RATIONALE:<reason>, ERROR:<error message>… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly expected to operate in enterprise environments, where work is distributed across specialized roles, permission-controlled systems, and cross-departmental procedures. However, existing enterprise benchmarks largely evaluate single agents with broad tool access, while existing multi-agent benchmarks rarely capture realistic enterprise constraints such as role specialization, access control, stateful business systems, and policy-based approvals. We introduce \textsc{EntCollabBench}, a benchmark for evaluating enterprise multi-agent collaboration. \textsc{EntCollabBench} simulates a permission-isolated organization with 11 role-specialized agents across six departments and contains two evaluation subsets: a Workflow subset, where agents collaboratively modify enterprise system states, and an Approval subset, where agents make policy-grounded decisions. Evaluation is based on execution traces, database state verification, and deterministic policy adjudication rather than natural-language response judging. Experiments with representative LLM agents show that current models still struggle with end-to-end enterprise collaboration, especially in delegation, context transfer, parameter grounding, workflow closure, and decision commitment. \textsc{EntCollabBench} provides a reproducible testbed for measuring and improving agent systems intended for realistic organizational environments.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

1 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces EntCollabBench, a benchmark simulating a permission-isolated enterprise organization with 11 role-specialized agents across six departments. It includes Workflow and Approval evaluation subsets assessed via execution traces, database state verification, and deterministic policy adjudication (rather than natural-language judging). Experiments with representative LLM agents indicate struggles with delegation, context transfer, parameter grounding, workflow closure, and decision commitment.

Significance. If the benchmark design holds, this work supplies a reproducible, objective testbed that fills a gap between single-agent enterprise evaluations and unconstrained multi-agent benchmarks. The use of stateful system modifications, access controls, and policy-grounded decisions (instead of subjective scoring) is a clear methodological strength that could support more reliable progress tracking for agents intended for organizational use.

major comments (1)
  1. Abstract and benchmark description: The central claim that observed LLM struggles reflect genuine enterprise collaboration challenges is load-bearing on the simulation's fidelity. The fixed permission-isolated setup with static 11-agent role specialization and deterministic policy adjudication does not address or validate against dynamic real-world elements such as evolving approvals, human-in-the-loop interventions, legacy inconsistencies, or cross-departmental conflicts; without such grounding, the failure modes risk being simulation artifacts rather than general findings.
minor comments (1)
  1. Abstract: The description of experiments would be strengthened by specifying the exact LLMs tested, number of trials per task, and quantitative metrics (e.g., success rates or error breakdowns) rather than qualitative statements alone.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment of EntCollabBench's methodological contributions and for highlighting the importance of simulation fidelity. We address the major comment below and outline targeted revisions.

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  1. Referee: Abstract and benchmark description: The central claim that observed LLM struggles reflect genuine enterprise collaboration challenges is load-bearing on the simulation's fidelity. The fixed permission-isolated setup with static 11-agent role specialization and deterministic policy adjudication does not address or validate against dynamic real-world elements such as evolving approvals, human-in-the-loop interventions, legacy inconsistencies, or cross-departmental conflicts; without such grounding, the failure modes risk being simulation artifacts rather than general findings.

    Authors: We agree that EntCollabBench employs a controlled, static simulation with fixed roles, permission isolation, and deterministic policies, and that it does not incorporate dynamic real-world factors such as evolving approvals, human-in-the-loop interventions, legacy inconsistencies, or cross-departmental conflicts. This design was chosen to enable reproducible evaluation via execution traces, database verification, and policy adjudication, which avoids the subjectivity of natural-language judging and supports reliable progress tracking. The identified failure modes (delegation, context transfer, parameter grounding, workflow closure, and decision commitment) represent fundamental capabilities that must be solved even within constrained settings and would likely compound in more dynamic environments. We will revise the manuscript by adding an expanded limitations subsection in the discussion that explicitly addresses the benchmark's scope, its deliberate simplifications relative to live enterprises, and the relationship between observed failures and real-world collaboration challenges. We will also update the abstract and introduction to more precisely qualify the claims as pertaining to this controlled enterprise-like testbed. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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Independent benchmark with no circular derivation chain

full rationale

The paper introduces EntCollabBench as a new simulation-based benchmark with fixed role-specialized agents and evaluates representative LLMs empirically on workflow and approval tasks. No equations, parameter fitting, or first-principles derivations are present; the central claims about agent struggles in delegation, context transfer, and related areas are direct experimental observations on the provided testbed rather than reductions to self-defined inputs or self-citations. The work is self-contained as an empirical benchmark contribution.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The contribution is the benchmark itself. No free parameters are introduced. The design rests on the domain assumption that enterprise workflows can be usefully simulated with role-based permissions and deterministic policy checks.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Enterprise workflows can be usefully simulated with role-based permissions and deterministic policy checks
    This assumption underpins the entire benchmark construction and evaluation approach described in the abstract.

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