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MedClaw Agent Harness Improves Surgical Video Reasoning

Researchers have developed MedClaw, a novel agent harness designed for complex reasoning over long surgical videos. Unlike existing methods that compress videos or require extensive data for training, MedClaw separates perception from reasoning. It utilizes a text-only orchestrator to plan evidence gathering and a system of frozen vision-language sub-agents to execute these plans. This approach adapts using a gradient-free Heuristic Skill Distillation loop, requiring significantly fewer labeled examples and enabling reusable retrieval skills. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient and adaptable AI systems for analyzing complex, long-form video data in specialized domains.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel agent harness for a specific AI task. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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MedClaw Agent Harness Improves Surgical Video Reasoning

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yingying Fan, Penghui Du, Leyan Zhu, Runze He, Zimeng Wu, Yuxuan Zhang, Liang Chen, Jiahao Xie, Jiangtang Wang, Shuai Shao, Anchao Yang, Yutong Bai, Yan Wang ·

    MedClaw: Heuristic Agent Harness for Long-Horizon Surgical Video Reasoning

    arXiv:2608.14015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding tens-of-minutes surgical videos requires long-horizon temporal reasoning, answering what happens before, after, or across stages of a procedure by grounding the question in visual evidence spread across time. Existin…