Appendix · Autonomy

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Overview#copy

Autonomy is best treated as a spectrum: from constrained tool use in well-specified workflows to open-ended operation in partially observed environments. Most production systems sit near the constrained end.

1) Agents for software and web tasks#copy

Key papers#copy

• WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents (Zhou et al., 2023)
• SWE-bench (Jimenez et al., 2024)

Code repositories / projects#copy

• web-arena-x/webarena
• princeton-nlp/SWE-bench

2) Learning-by-exploration agents#copy

Key papers#copy

• Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with LLMs (Wang et al., 2023)

Code repositories / projects#copy

• MineDojo/Voyager

3) Orchestration and guardrails#copy

Key papers#copy

• Constitutional AI (Bai et al., 2022)

Code repositories / projects#copy

• langchain-ai/langgraph
• microsoft/autogen