@inproceedings{zhang-li-2026-agent, title = "Agent Step Value: Auditing Evaluation-Channel Sensitivity in Black-Box Agent Traces", author = "Zhang, Andrew and Li, Chengzhan", editor = "Kamalloo, Ehsan and Gontier, Nicolas and Rozanov, Nikolai and Hashemzadeh, Maryam and Arora, Akhil", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop for {RE}search on Agent Language Models ({REALM} 2026)", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.realm-1.12/", pages = "161--176", ISBN = "979-8-89176-485-9" }