Can Next-Turn Metrics Test Workflows?
The paper *When Better Turns Do Not Make Better Agents* tests a quiet failure in agent evaluation: a model can improve at predicting the next local action...
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Cross-Substrate Authority Moves to Runtime
The *Beyond Agent Harnesses* paper names a production failure that ordinary workspace inspection misses: an agent can see the same files and memory while...
Hyper-Tau Bench Tests Agent Building
Hyper-Tau Bench changes the unit of evaluation from an agent using tools to a coding system building a deployable customer-service agent [Hyper-Tau...
Can SentinelBench Measure Waiting?
SentinelBench turns waiting into an agent benchmark [SentinelBench](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05342). The Microsoft Research paper introduces 100...
Mid-Range Tasks Cut Agent Eval Cost
Efficient Benchmarking of AI Agents asks a practical release question: can teams compare agent systems without rerunning every expensive interactive task...
Claude Misuse Moves From Chat to Campaigns
Anthropic's September 2026 threat-intelligence report is useful because it shows Claude misuse moving from isolated prompt abuse towards operational...
SciAgentArena Maps Science Agent Limits
SciAgentArena turns biomedical research assistance into an interactive agent benchmark, not a static science quiz...
PM-Bench Tests Delayed Agent Memory
PM-Bench turns prospective memory into an agent evaluation problem: can a system remember to act on a future cue while ordinary work continues? The...
Should MoE Experts Stay on the GPU?
FluxMoE, revised on 30 April 2026, treats mixture-of-experts serving as a memory-residency problem rather than only a routing or kernel problem...
Messier Maps Agent Benchmark Drift
Messier, revised on 30 August 2026, treats agent evaluation as a data-integration problem rather than another leaderboard race...
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