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Agent Step Value: Auditing Evaluator-Channel Reversals in Black-Box Agent Traces

Andrew Zhang, Chengzhan Li

The paper introduces Agent Step Value (ASV), a metric for auditing how step‑wise rewards assigned by an evaluator can change sign when the scoring channel changes, and demonstrates…