The ReAct family of frameworks, where agents interleave explicit reasoning with concrete actions, has become one of the most natural ways to structure aerial drone analytics once we move beyond static perception into mission‑ and workflow‑level intelligence. In the UAV literature, we see this most clearly in the distinction between traditional “sense–plan–act” autonomy and what Sapkota and colleagues call Agentic UAVs: systems that integrate perception, decision‑making, memory, and collaborative planning into goal‑driven agents that can adapt to context and interact with humans and other machines in a loop, not just execute precomputed trajectories. ReAct‑style agents fit neatly into this picture as the cognitive core: they look at aerial data and task context, think through possible interpretations and actions in natural language or a symbolic trace, then call tools, planners, or control modules, observe the results, and think again. For drone image analytics, that “reason + act” cycle is where scene understanding, query planning, and mission evaluation start to blur together.

Sapkota et al.’s survey is useful precisely because it doesn’t treat this as a single pattern but as a spectrum of agentic architectures for UAVs. At one end are perception‑heavy agents where the “act” step is little more than calling specialized detectors or segmenters over imagery; the ReAct loop becomes a way to sequence image analytics: detect, reflect on the result, refine the region of interest, detect again, and so on. In the middle are cognitive planning agents that take higher‑level goals—“inspect all bridges in this corridor,” “prioritize hotspots near critical infrastructure”—and use ReAct loops to decompose them into analyzable subproblems, continuously grounding their reasoning in visual and geospatial feedback. At the far end are fully multi‑agent systems where different agents specialize in perception, planning, communication, and oversight, coordinating via shared memories and negotiation; here, ReAct is no longer a single loop but a pattern repeated inside each agent’s internal deliberation and in their interactions with each other. Across these types, aerial image analytics is both the substrate (what perception agents operate on) and a source of constraints (what planning and oversight agents must respect).

UAV‑CodeAgents by Sautenkov et al. is arguably the clearest instantiation of a multi‑agent ReAct framework for aerial scenarios. Built explicitly on large language and vision‑language models, it uses a team of agents that interpret satellite imagery and natural‑language instructions, then iteratively generate UAV missions via a ReAct loop: agents “think” in natural language about what they see and what the instructions require, “act” by emitting code, waypoints, or tool calls, observe the updated plan and environment, and then continue reasoning. A key innovation is their vision‑grounded pixel‑pointing mechanism, which lets agents refer to precise locations on aerial maps, ensuring that each act step is anchored in real spatial structure rather than abstract tokens. This is not just a conceptual nicety; in their large‑scale fire‑detection scenarios, the combination of multi‑agent ReAct reasoning and grounded actions yields a reported 93% mission success rate with an average mission creation time of 96.96 seconds at a lower decoding temperature, showing that we can get both reliability and bounded planning latency when the ReAct loop is carefully constrained.

If we step back and treat these works as a de facto “survey” of ReAct variants for drone analytics, a few archetypes emerge. Single‑agent ReAct patterns appear when a single vision‑language model is responsible for both scene understanding and action selection, often in simpler or more scripted environments. Multi‑agent ReAct, as in UAV‑CodeAgents, distributes reasoning and action across specialized agents—one may focus on interpreting imagery, another on code synthesis for trajectory generation, another on constraint checking—with the ReAct loop dictating both their internal thought and their coordination. Sapkota et al. broaden this further by embedding ReAct‑like cycles into a layered cognitive architecture where perception, cognition, and control agents all perform their own micro “reason + act” sequences, coordinated through shared memory and communication protocols. In all cases, the ReAct pattern is what allows these systems to treat aerial imagery not as a static input to a one‑shot model, but as a dynamic environment that agents can interrogate, test, and respond to.

For ezbenchmark, which is inheriting TPC‑H’s workload sensibility into drone image analytics, these ReAct variants suggest natural metrics to encode into the benchmark. UAV‑CodeAgents already gives u two: mission success rate and mission creation time under a multi‑agent ReAct regime. Sapkota et al. implicitly add dimensions like adaptability to new tasks and environments, collaborative efficiency among agents, and robustness under partial observability, all tied to how effectively agents can close the loop between reasoning and action in complex aerial scenarios. Translating that into ezbenchmark means we can, for each workload, not only measure traditional analytics metrics (accuracy, latency, cost) but also evaluate how different ReAct configurations perform when used as controllers or judges over the same scenes: how many reasoning–action iterations are needed to converge on a correct analytic conclusion, how sensitive mission‑level outcomes are to the agent’s decoding temperature, and how multi‑agent versus single‑agent ReAct architectures trade off between planning time and success rate.

Framing ReAct this way turns it into a first‑class axis in our benchmark rather than a hidden implementation detail. A workload in ezbenchmark could specify not just “find all overloaded intersections in this area” but also the agentic regime under test: a single vision‑LLM performing a ReAct loop over tools, a UAV‑CodeAgents‑style multi‑agent system, or a layered Agentic UAV architecture where oversight and planning are separated. The metric is then not only whether the analytic answer matches ground truth, but how the ReAct dynamics behave: convergence speed, stabiliuty under repeated runs, and resilience to minor perturbations in input or prompt. The survey‑style insights from Agentic UAVs and the concrete results from UAV‑CodeAgents together give u enough structure to define those metrics in a principled way, letting ezbenchmark evolve from a static TPC‑H‑inspired harness into a testbed that can actually compare ReAct frameworks themselves as part of the drone analytics stack.

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