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ProAgent: Harnessing On-Demand Sensory Contexts for Proactive LLM Agent Systems in the Wild

Bufang Yang, Lilin Xu, Liekang Zeng, Yunqi Guo +7 more

Published

Dec 7, 2025

Citations

0

Trust level

Moderate

Usefulness score

65/100 (Medium)

Extraction confidence

70% (Moderate)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

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May 7, 2026

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Should you rely on this paper?

This paper has useful evaluation signal, but protocol completeness is partial; pair it with related papers before deciding implementation strategy.

Use this for comparison and orientation, not as your only source.

Best use

Secondary protocol comparison source

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

No major weakness surfaced.

Human feedback signal
Detected
From extracted signals
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
65/100
Moderate-confidence candidate

Useful as a secondary reference; validate protocol details against neighboring papers.

If you are doing eval pipeline work, start here

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Abstract

Recent studies have begun to explore proactive large language model (LLM) agents that provide unobtrusive assistance by automatically leveraging contextual information, such as in code editing and in-app suggestions. However, most focus on short, task-specific episodes or on-screen contexts, rather than continuously perceiving and assisting users throughout daily life. Enabling such in-the-wild assistance requires continuous sensing of users' surroundings, which can incur substantial system overhead. In this work, we propose ProAgent, an end-to-end proactive agent system that harnesses on-demand sensory contexts to provide in-the-wild assistance. ProAgent first employs on-demand tiered perception to continuously sense users' surroundings by integrating low-cost contextual cues with richer perception on demand, and uses proactive-oriented context extraction to derive hierarchical contexts integrating both sensory contexts and human preferences. ProAgent then employs a context-aware proactive reasoner to infer user needs and invokes external tools to deliver proactive assistance. We implement ProAgent on AR glasses and evaluate it on a public dataset and a real-world dataset. Results demonstrate that ProAgent achieves up to 27.7% higher proactive prediction accuracy and 20.5% lower false detection than state-of-the-art baselines. A user study with 20 participants shows that 85% were satisfied with ProAgent and willing to use it in daily life.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

strong

Pairwise Preference

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"Recent studies have begun to explore proactive large language model (LLM) agents that provide unobtrusive assistance by automatically leveraging contextual information, such as in code editing and in-app suggestions."

Evaluation Modes

strong

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Recent studies have begun to explore proactive large language model (LLM) agents that provide unobtrusive assistance by automatically leveraging contextual information, such as in code editing and in-app suggestions."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Recent studies have begun to explore proactive large language model (LLM) agents that provide unobtrusive assistance by automatically leveraging contextual information, such as in code editing and in-app suggestions."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Recent studies have begun to explore proactive large language model (LLM) agents that provide unobtrusive assistance by automatically leveraging contextual information, such as in code editing and in-app suggestions."

Reported Metrics

strong

Accuracy

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Results demonstrate that ProAgent achieves up to 27.7% higher proactive prediction accuracy and 20.5% lower false detection than state-of-the-art baselines."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

accuracy
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Pairwise Preference
Rater population
Not reported
Unit of annotation
Trajectory
Expertise required
Coding
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
Tool Use
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Moderate
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Research brief

Metadata summary

Recent studies have begun to explore proactive large language model (LLM) agents that provide unobtrusive assistance by automatically leveraging contextual information, such as in code editing and in-app suggestions.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Recent studies have begun to explore proactive large language model (LLM) agents that provide unobtrusive assistance by automatically leveraging contextual information, such as in code editing and in-app suggestions.
  • However, most focus on short, task-specific episodes or on-screen contexts, rather than continuously perceiving and assisting users throughout daily life.
  • Enabling such in-the-wild assistance requires continuous sensing of users' surroundings, which can incur substantial system overhead.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Automatic metrics) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

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Accuracy

Contribution summary

  • In this work, we propose ProAgent, an end-to-end proactive agent system that harnesses on-demand sensory contexts to provide in-the-wild assistance.
  • Results demonstrate that ProAgent achieves up to 27.7% higher proactive prediction accuracy and 20.5% lower false detection than state-of-the-art baselines.
  • A user study with 20 participants shows that 85% were satisfied with ProAgent and willing to use it in daily life.

Why it matters for eval

  • In this work, we propose ProAgent, an end-to-end proactive agent system that harnesses on-demand sensory contexts to provide in-the-wild assistance.
  • Results demonstrate that ProAgent achieves up to 27.7% higher proactive prediction accuracy and 20.5% lower false detection than state-of-the-art baselines.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Pairwise Preference

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: accuracy