Rashid Azarang

Reading More, Finding Less: A Pre-Registered Anatomy of Mis-Routing in Curated Agent Retrieval

This paper measures how well a curated index works when it is an AI agent's only retrieval mechanism. Agent systems commonly provide curated summaries and index files, a pattern known as progressive disclosure, on the assumption that they help the agent reach the correct content...

Reading More, Finding Less: A Pre-Registered Anatomy of Mis-Routing in Curated Agent Retrieval

This paper measures how well a curated index routes an AI agent to the right information. Its instrument differs from standard retrieval evaluation: instead of scoring a retriever's returned set (recall@k), it records, per question, whether the agent's own read actions reached th...