@inproceedings{laskar-etal-2026-better, title = "When Better Turns Do Not Make Better Agents: Diagnosing the Gap Between Next-Turn Metrics and Workflow Success", author = "Laskar, Md Tahmid Rahman and Fu, Xue-Yong and Singh, Gundeep and Chang, Karol and Sanders, Kevin and Zong, Shi and Habib, Tania and Tremblay, Julien Bouvier and Gardiner, Shayna and Saini, Harsh and Lee, Matthias and Khasanova, Elena and McNamara, Quinten and Nagabhushan, Shashi Bhushan Tyamagondlu", 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-1.82/", pages = "1198--1204", ISBN = "979-8-89176-485-9" }