VeriCUA: Verification as Agentic Exploration for Computer-Using Agents

VeriCUA: Verification as Agentic Exploration for Computer-Using Agents

The authors of VeriCUA propose a platform-agnostic framework for checking whether computer-using agents (CUAs) completed tasks. Rather than relying only on a vision-language model’s supplied observations or a program’s access to application state, the framework treats verification as gathering and assessing evidence. Its verifier inspects available context to construct a task rubric, selects GUI or code checks for unresolved requirements, and combines findings under explicit evidence rules. The authors describe this shared procedure as working across platforms and observation modalities in online and offline settings. They report improved agreement with reference labels over compared baselines, with the largest offline gains on hard cases and stronger rejection of false completion claims online. Further analyses connect these gains to complementary evidence and test-time exploration. The paper presents verification as an active process: when a requirement remains unresolved, the verifier selects a check and assesses its findings rather than relying on a single view. The abstract does not give numerical results or details about the tested tasks, so the scale and scope of the reported improvements remain unclear.

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We present VeriCUA, a platform-agnostic framework for verification through agentic exploration.

summary — uncertain: The summary is faithful, but it leaves out the source's stated reason the problem matters: reliable verification is needed for data curation, evaluation and reinforcement learning of CUAs. It also omits the motivating problem that partial views can miss decisive evidence, and that separate verifiers add engineering cost. Central terms such as GUI, task rubric, reference labels, online/offline settings and test-time exploration are not explained in plain language and should get tooltips. Smallest repair: add one sentence on why verification matters, and add tooltips for those terms.

requires reliable task-completion verification for data curation, evaluation, and reinforcement learning

date — pass: The originalPublished date, 2026-10-29, matches the v1 submission date on the arXiv page. It is not the later feed date of 2026-10-31.

[Submitted on 29 Oct 2026]

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Experiments show improved agreement with reference labels over the compared baselines across these settings, with the largest offline gains on hard cases and stronger rejection of false completion claims online.

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