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Persistent Control State Lifted a Local GUI Agent

LocalLSTC separates long-term subgoal evidence from bounded short-term execution commitments.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-27-018
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Summary

LocalLSTC separates long-term subgoal evidence from bounded short-term execution commitments.

Replacing GPT-5 with Qwen3.5-9B across four frameworks dropped average OSWorld SR-100 from 60.9 to 37.7 percent. With Qwen3.6-27B, the training-free architecture reached 64.7 percent on OSWorld and 65.3 percent on WindowsAgentArena.

Why it matters

LocalLSTC separates long-term subgoal evidence from bounded short-term execution commitments.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. LocalLSTC separates long-term subgoal evidence from bounded short-term execution commitments.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-27-020

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.25777arXiv · primary research

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