arxivcs.AI2026-07-12
Agents Don't Just Agree, They Remember: Benchmarking Persistent Sycophancy in Stateful Personal Agents
Xutao Mao, Liangjie Zhao, Leyao Wang, Rui Qian, Qiang Huang, Wentao Wang, et al.
Stateful personal agents increasingly maintain long-term user profiles, episodic memories, and reusable skills. This persistence turns conversational sycophancy into a state-writing failure: accepted user-centric claims can be committed as lasting preferences, background facts, o…