AGORA: An Archive-Grounded Benchmark for Agentic Workplace Document Reasoning

Honglin Guo, Qi Zhang, Yu Zhang, Weijie Li, Rui Zheng, Zhikai Lei, Qiyuan Peng, Zhiheng Xi, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang

AGORA: An Archive-Grounded Benchmark for Agentic Workplace Document Reasoning: 6 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #20 of 29 papers on 2026-06-24. Day-by-day upvote history.

Large language models are increasingly deployed as agents that reason over documents rather than answer from parametric knowledge. We study archive-grounded reasoning: locating sparse evidence across a large, messy collection of workplace files, reconciling inconsistent terminology, units, and time conventions, and computing an answer. Existing benchmarks address only parts of this setting and none jointly stresses archive-groundedness, agentic exploration, and cross-domain coverage. We introduce Agora, a benchmark pairing 362 questions with eight domain collections of 9,664 authentic documents and 372M tokens, far exceeding any model's context window, so agents must explore deliberately rather than scan exhaustively. Agora is built by an agentic pipeline combining cross-document task synthesis, leakage-preventing obfuscation, and difficulty filtering. Evaluating eight models, we find the task far from solved: even the strongest reaches only 59.4% accuracy, with notable variation across domains.

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