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State-Grounded Conditioning: Wrapping User-Facing LLM Agents Where Direction Depends on Live State

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The method replaces monolithic prompt-based state injection and generic tool-use agent loops with explicit Perception, Grounding, and Interaction wrappers that externalise state-dependent control into rule kernels over structured state slices. It costs engineering effort to define state slices, write and maintain rule kernels, and wire conditioning dependencies, with latency and accuracy gains reported on a single narrow benchmark. It can fail when rule kernels drift out of sync with evolving application state schemas, when the three state slices are not actually orthogonal for a new domain, or when the 200-session in-game coaching results do not transfer to other agent workloads.

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State-grounded conditioning via rule-kernel wrappers
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2026-09-23

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    The method replaces monolithic prompt-based state injection and generic tool-use agent loops with explicit Perception, Grounding, and Interaction wrappers that externalise state-dependent control into rule kernels over structured state slices. It costs engineering effort to define state slices, write and maintain rule kernels, and wire conditioning dependencies, with latency and accuracy gains reported on a single narrow benchmark. It can fail when rule kernels drift out of sync with evolving application state schemas, when the three state slices are not actually orthogonal for a new domain, or when the 200-session in-game coaching results do not transfer to other agent workloads.

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    Perception wrapper holds mean first-token latency at 1.5s vs 6.1s for a PE-Agent baseline; enabling all three wrappers lifts turn-level grounded accuracy from 61.1%/69.8% to 96.7% and session-level grounded accuracy from 20.0%/26.5% to 83.5%, with grounding-failure incidents down ~78%.

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