arXiv cs.AIAugust 17, 2026
MedClaw: Heuristic Agent Harness for Long-Horizon Surgical Video Reasoning
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arXiv:2608.14015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding tens-of-minutes surgical videos requires long-horizon temporal reasoning, answering what happens before, after, or across stages of a procedure by grounding the question in visual evidence spread across time. Existing approaches handle this poorly: a one-shot vision-language model (VLM) compresses the whole procedure to fit its context window and loses the detail a "before" or "after" question depends on, while video agents that tra