arXiv:2602. 16666v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI agents are increasingly deployed to execute important tasks.
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arXiv:2602.02475v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI agents often fail in ways that are difficult to localize because executions are probabilistic, long-horizon, multi-agent, and mediated by noisy...
arXiv:2608. 00794v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic AI evaluation pipelines produce benchmark scores that justify deployment decisions, safety certifications, and regulatory compliance claims.
The paper introduces Traverse, a benchmark of 2,518 agent trajectories and 6,967 annotated mistakes across software engineering, computer use, and science tasks, revealing that failures often go unrecovered and can cause irreversible harm before a run is deemed successful. It shows that human judges struggle to detect the first mistake in most runs, while a 4‑billion‑parameter verifier called Scout can locate failures more effectively and improve task success when used to select among candidate runs. The study demonstrates that making failure detection inexpensive and reliable can enable long‑horizon agents to learn from their own mistakes and increase trustworthiness in autonomous AI.
Harbor Adapters is a unified evaluation infrastructure that ports over 80 agentic benchmarks, enabling arbitrary agents to be tested across complex environments. The authors performed a large‑scale evaluation of 8 models on 54 benchmarks, using Terminus‑2 and three native harnesses, revealing detailed agent capabilities and failure modes. They also created Harbor‑Index, a curated set of 82 challenging tasks from 29 benchmarks, designed to be affordable yet comprehensive, with the best model achieving a 28.0% pass rate.
Incident‑Arena is a new benchmark for AI coding agents focused on production incident response, featuring 20 tasks derived from real‑world open‑source software. Each task deploys a production application on an ephemerally created Kubernetes cluster, injects faults at various layers, and applies a sustained load profile. The benchmark introduces functional verifiers that maintain system‑level metrics while ensuring safe repairs, and shows that current frontier models achieve below 64.3% across the tasks, highlighting challenges in diagnosis, repair, and regression safety.
READY or Not: Reliable Enterprise Agent Deployment introduces a framework for qualifying AI agents for enterprise workflows. It measures reliability and operating cost under various oversight policies, selects the minimum‑cost policy that meets a specified reliability target, and statistically qualifies it on held‑out cases. In a clinical audit study, READY revealed that two agents with nearly identical autonomous accuracy required markedly different levels of human review to achieve the same reliability target.