Abstract:LLM-based multi-agent systems can fail even when communication succeeds because agents do not correctly track their peers' roles, knowledge, or intentions. We investigate whether such inter-agent misalignment cases, labelled FC2 in MAST-Data, can be converted into functional partner-state reasoning items. ToMAS applies four explicit convertibility criteria to diagnosed execution traces. A full conversion pass over 242 eligible non-AG2 training traces produced 39 CLEAN items. In an 18-trace reliability pilot, two annotators achieved 94.4% raw agreement and Cohen's kappa = 0.92. We then used the converted items as binary rewards in a small-scale GRPO feasibility experiment with Qwen2.5-1.5B. On a 28-item held-out Magentic GAIA diagnostic, every evaluated condition exceeded the ROUGE-L threshold on the same 2 of 28 items. Post-hoc adapter checks show why: under the learning rate used, the LoRA update remained numerically negligible (max abs Delta W about 7e-6), so all conditions decode identically to the untrained checkpoint. The experiment therefore does not show a training effect and cannot establish one; it reports an executable pipeline together with two limitations that any conclusive study must address: a provenance gap between the training and evaluation items, and lexical-overlap scoring. ToMAS provides a preliminary rubric and pipeline for converting diagnosed coordination failures into trainable partner-state reasoning items and identifies the requirements for a conclusive matched-domain evaluation.
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