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Tool-Use Agents Need Failure Labels, Not Pass Rates
Tool-use agents can fail in ways a final accuracy score hides, because the same wrong answer can come from skipped tools, ignored outputs, fabricated...
Agent Leaderboards Can Be Cheaper Without Being Safer
A March 2026 paper on efficient agent benchmarking found that mid-difficulty task subsets can remove large parts of an agent benchmark while preserving...
Multimodal Memory Tests Expose the Personal-Agent Gap
Product teams are turning memory into the selling point for personal agents. The hard question is no longer whether they can remember a preference; it is...
Power Grid Agents Need Constraint Tests, Not Chat Scores
A June 2026 power-systems benchmark argues that language-model agents can solve grid-engineering tasks, but the useful signal is narrower: the agent must...
TerminalWorld Makes Agent Benchmarks Harder to Fake
TerminalWorld turns public terminal recordings into validated agent tasks. The signal is not a higher leaderboard score. It is a harder benchmark supply chain.
Tool Agents Need State Diffs, Not API Call Scores
Tool-use agents are moving from choosing the right API to changing live product state. That makes a clean function-call score too small a test because...
Multilingual Agents Need Workflow Tests, Not Translation Scores
PolyWorkBench landed on arXiv on 7 July 2026 with a useful correction to enterprise-agent hype: a global workflow is not a translated English task...
Agent Benchmarks Need Runtime Receipts, Not Model Labels
RuBench's revised 19 July 2026 release contains a small but important warning for coding-agent buyers: one audited product configuration silently...
Data Agents Need Exploration Budgets, Not SQL Magic
Data Agent Benchmark landed on arXiv on 21 March 2026 with a result that should make enterprise analytics teams pause: the best tested frontier model...
Assistant Agents Need Reminder Tests, Not Recall Scores
Most agent-memory benchmarks ask whether a model can recover old information. PM-Bench asks a harsher question: can an agent remember to do the right...