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Terminal Agents Suffice for Enterprise Automation research paper by ServiceNow, 2026

ServiceNow · Mar 31, 2026 · Agents and evaluation · 98 upvotes · unverified 5 months ago

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Simple terminal-based coding agents using programmatic interfaces and foundation models can effectively perform enterprise tasks comparable to or better than complex tool-augmented agents.

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About this paper
Authors
Patrice Bechard, Orlando Marquez Ayala, Emily Chen and 5 more
arXiv
2604.00073 · PDF
Citations
Not counted yet · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
98 · Hugging Face
Code
github.com/ServiceNow/starshell
Lab
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