TradeCraft - Exploring Theory of Mind in LLM Agents' Strategic Decision-Making and Communication

LLM agents’ reliance on implicit Theory of Mind (ToM) during strategic decision-making remains debated. We investigate this using a Minecraft-inspired “trade-and-craft” game requiring goal inference and item exchange. By augmenting agents with explicit ToM scaffolding—where players report multi-order beliefs about opponents—we evaluate the alignment between inferred mental states and behavioral outcomes.