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GUI Agents +28% Success, 80% Less History: Match Screens Not Tasks

Summary

Exposes a systematic flaw in how personal GUI agents use interaction history—retrieved task-relevant experience helps almost exclusively at step one, leaving ~90% of decisions without sustained benefit—and introduces a training-free fix that cuts context size by 80% while improving per-step success by 28%; directly affects anyone deploying enterprise desktop or mobile agents.