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Ask, Relax, or Act? Evaluating Actionable Indeterminacy in LLM Preference Reasoning
An LLM agent can recognize uncertainty yet still choose the wrong next step: asking when action is already justified, or seeking clarification when the constraints must change. We formalize actionable indeterminacy: act when an accepted action is shared across all admissible preferences or objectives, clarify when each …