# The Menu Is an Execution Prior: State-Path Tool Menus for Online Agents

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**Published:** September 10, 2026
**Author:** Bo Yan, Weikai Lin, Song Wang
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2609.09395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models act through tools, yet practical agents face libraries containing thousands of interfaces. We introduce the tool menu as the short, ordered subset of available tools shown to an agent before execution. The agent can…

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