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Aug 2026
Fetch-then-Explore: Decoupling Selection from Extraction over a Persistent Workspace for Search Agents
Fetch-then-Explore is proposed, which separates page selection from evidence extraction and keeps what it selects: pages are recorded in a per-question workspace on the filesystem rather than the context window or a transient session, and evidence is pulled from them on demand later.
Qi Liu, Yi-Qun Chen, Zidan Chen et al.
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