RunningTab Adds Environment-Side Tabs for LLM Agents

RunningTab uses an environment-side task tab so LLM agents track open requirements, excerpts, and unopened files more reliably.

RunningTab is a framework for direct workspace interaction that adds a per-task environment-side tab outside the context window so LLM agents do not lose track of requirements and files. The environment stores outstanding requirements, file excerpts with provenance, and listed but unopened candidates, while the agent resolves each requirement against matching content or sets it aside. A finish check blocks early completion by returning requirements that are still open. Across three benchmarks and three LLMs, RunningTab consistently outperforms plain direct workspace interaction and baselines that keep the record inside the model. The authors report that the tab usually retains what a deliverable needs once it has been seen; one source says those values, the other those files.