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Consider a neutral timeline with Phase A, Event B, and Phase C.

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The question asks what happened immediately before Event B, so
finding B is only the first step.

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Inspecting only the frames inside B may miss the earlier
interval that actually contains the answer.

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The system needs to localize the event, inspect the preceding
window, and connect the evidence across time.

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This original diagram contains no patient details, operative
images, or recommended medical actions.

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It explains the retrieval problem MedClaw studies in long
surgical-video question answering.

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MedClaw separates retrieval planning from visual perception,

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using a text-only orchestrator and frozen vision-language
sub-agents.

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The orchestrator never sees the video directly; it decides which
evidence to request through tools.

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Visual sub-agents inspect the specified pixels and return
textual observations that the orchestrator can reason about.

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No model weights are updated during this harness's inference or
heuristic skill-learning loop.

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Its adjustable part is the external library of retrieval
strategies, not a newly fine-tuned visual backbone.

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Keeping those roles separate turns an implicit attention
decision into a visible request for evidence.

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The tools expose progressively finer evidence: a full recording,
a chosen temporal segment, and individual frames.

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A full-video pass produces a rough timeline and then revisits a
candidate window at higher resolution.

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A segment tool reads the localized interval or an adjacent
interval needed for a temporal question.

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Independent frame inspection can check a specific visible
detail, including a smaller spatial crop when needed.

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A knowledge-retrieval tool supplies general background terms,
rather than answers from the benchmark.

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Background knowledge and the evidence from this particular
recording remain different inputs to the reasoning process.

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Each tool call names its arguments, such as a time range, and
returns an observation into the running context.

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The orchestrator then decides whether the evidence is sufficient
or another look is needed.

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The action-observation sequence is recorded until the model
stops and produces its final answer.

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In the original before-B example, an event-window observation
should trigger inspection of the preceding interval.

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That makes the requested re-look visible, instead of hiding the
retrieval decision inside one compressed pass.

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A recorded trace supports inspection, but recording a decision
alone does not guarantee its interpretation is correct.

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Heuristic Skill Distillation starts from one hundred labeled
questions in the separate SVU training split.

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Sixty questions support candidate mining, and forty form the
validation set used to gate those candidates.

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The agent first answers blind, then compares its answer and
retrieval trace against the reference during mining.

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An operational miss can suggest a tighter crop or adjacent
window; an unreachable answer offers no retrieval lesson.

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A skill must beat the empty-library mean by over zero point zero
five, with no answer losing two or more points.

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The retained lesson changes the external skill library, while
the model parameters remain frozen.

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The learned library prominently includes directed re-look,

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a strategy triggered by questions about what precedes or follows
an event.

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After localizing the event, the agent inspects the following
window for an after question.

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For a before or preparation question, it returns to the
preceding window instead.

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The strategy addresses a specific retrieval failure:

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reading the named event without reading the context the question
asks about.

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Our neutral timeline illustrates the idea; its phases are not
observations from a real surgical recording.

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The mechanism is evidence seeking across time, rather than
assuming the customary next step from background knowledge.

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MedClawBench combines two hundred fifty-nine long neurosurgery
questions

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with eight hundred sixty-four held-out lecture-video questions.

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The total is one thousand one hundred twenty-three questions,

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with filtering designed to remove specified answer shortcuts.

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Blind and local evidence tests check whether a question requires
watching its targeted interval.

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Lecture questions also face an audio-only filter, reducing
answers obtainable by listening to narration alone.

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Answers receive four one-to-five rubric scores:

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correctness, detail, contextual understanding, and temporal
understanding.

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These benchmark answer scores are research measurements,

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not patient outcomes or a test of clinical deployment readiness.

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A controlled ablation wraps the same Qwen two point five V L
seven-billion-parameter visual backbone in the harness.

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On the neurosurgery split, its one-shot four-dimensional average
is two point zero four.

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With the harness, the same visual-backbone row reports two point
five eight.

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The added orchestrator and tool loop are part of the comparison;
the visual model itself is not retrained.

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A separate component ablation reports a zero point three eight
score reduction when directed re-look is removed.

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Read these as scoped rubric-score improvements, not
probabilities that an agent can safely interpret any clinical
video.

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Return to Event B: locating the event is useful, but the
question may point to another nearby interval.

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A text planner can choose that interval, while a visual tool
inspects what the recording actually contains.

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The observations and decisions remain in a trace that can be
inspected and revisited.

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A validated retrieval lesson can later guide the next question
without changing the underlying model weights.

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MedClaw studies that harness design under a defined long-video
benchmark,

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with evidence gathering as the central mechanism.

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The idea is to improve how a system looks for support before
trusting the answer it produces.