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  "title": "Multimodal Collaborative Agents for Next-Gen Commerce — Nidhi Kaushik Vyas, Google DeepMind",
  "why_included": "For fuzzy requests, an agent should identify the missing constraint with the most decision value, elicit it in the right modality, then choose a response format suited to the task.",
  "summary": "The proposed loop builds a working state from conversation history, personal context, references, hard constraints, soft preferences, confidence, and live variables such as inventory. It then asks the **single highest-utility question**, such as room width before suggesting furniture.",
  "practical_implication": "Treat elicitation as an agent policy: identify blockers, avoid repeated questioning, and select **text or visual preference boards** according to whether the user can articulate the constraint. Map each answer into the catalog ontology before retrieval, then choose a response format such as a comparison table or inspiration images.",
  "agent_context": "The proposed loop builds a working state from conversation history, personal context, references, hard constraints, soft preferences, confidence, and live variables such as inventory. It then asks the **single highest-utility question**, such as room width before suggesting furniture.\n\nTreat elicitation as an agent policy: identify blockers, avoid repeated questioning, and select **text or visual preference boards** according to whether the user can articulate the constraint. Map each answer into the catalog ontology before retrieval, then choose a response format such as a comparison table or inspiration images.\n\nThis is a commerce-grounded framework, not reported performance evidence. Merchant ontologies remain important, and agent-to-agent shopping is described as **an early-stage possibility**, with direct user involvement still preferred during discovery.",
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    "This is a commerce-grounded framework, not reported performance evidence. Merchant ontologies remain important, and agent-to-agent shopping is described as **an early-stage possibility**, with direct user involvement still preferred during discovery."
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    "meaning": "This specializes context engineering into an explicit commerce elicitation policy: maintain structured state, ask the one question that removes the most uncertainty, translate answers into merchant ontology, and adapt the response medium. It reinforces process-first scoping while narrowing autonomous shopping claims, since discovery still favors direct user participation and no performance evidence is reported.",
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        "title": "How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Ramp — Leo Mehr",
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