What agent benchmarks can tell us
A benchmark score is evidence about a task, not a guarantee about an agent.
A reader’s guide to tool-using AI evaluations: what gets tested, what counts as success, and what a result leaves out.
Photo: Alicia Christin Gerald
Start with the evidence
Read evaluation papers with the same care you would bring to a measurement instrument: inspect the task and the yardstick first.
This short edition draws on the sources listed in Source notes. Each page says what its evidence supports and where interpretation begins.