When Should a VLM Look? Paying Only for Visual Calls That Were Needed and Used
From the same cold start, prompt pool, and budget, CounterCredit reaches 89.5% on V*, 80.2% on HR-Bench-4K, and 76.4% on HR-Bench-8K, and raises the spurious-call rate to 31% to 36%, the lowest among the agents evaluated.