# A Research Proposal Would Make Enterprise Agents Act Before Being Asked

A new paper argues that retrieval and agent frameworks keep AI agents fundamentally reactive, and it proposes context graphs to let them anticipate and start work on their own.

- Published: 2026-07-11T06:01:51.690Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-07-11/a-research-proposal-would-make-enterprise-agents-act-before
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [arXiv cs.AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07721)

A paper posted to arXiv, Context Graphs for Proactive Enterprise Agents, argues that retrieval-augmented generation and current agent frameworks leave agents reactive by design, waiting for a human request before acting. The authors propose…

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