Toward User-Conditioned Evaluation of Personal LLM Agents under Temporal Interventions

July 20, 2026 ยท Grace Period ยท ๐Ÿ› KDD 2026 Workshop

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Authors Pin Qian, Su Wang, Yihang Chen, Qiaolin Yu, Xiaoyuan Wang, Zhitong Guo, Zhicheng Wang, Junxian You arXiv ID 2607.21635 Category cs.LG: Machine Learning Citations 0 Venue KDD 2026 Workshop
Abstract
Personal agents maintain memories, learned skills, tool configurations, and policy state that evolve with each user. Existing agent benchmarks often evaluate these capabilities in isolation: tool benchmarks test invocation under fixed APIs, memory benchmarks test recall or forgetting, and safety benchmarks test static policy compliance. We argue that personal-agent evaluation requires a different protocol: replaying the same temporal intervention across different persistent user-conditioned states and measuring how failures propagate across agent components. We formalize this requirement as four conditions: explicit temporal intervention, persistent state across the intervention, induced cross-dimensional effects, and variation in user-conditioned state. A focused audit of public benchmark protocols selected by explicit inclusion criteria identifies several close cases. Under our explicitly narrow operationalization, we did not find a protocol in that audited set satisfying all four conditions. This claim is scoped as a focused gap analysis with bounded literature coverage. This position paper proposes a minimal benchmark design and candidate reporting metrics for user-conditioned adaptation. The result is a concrete design requirement for future personal-agent evaluation, with metrics used as reporting tools for that requirement.
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