AgentTime

Task 7 of 12 in Agents' Last Exam

Build a clean retail SQLite warehouse from messy inputs

Astra's three runs followed the request (5 min 9 s, 20 min 27 s and 1 h 20 min). Fable worked 13 min 10 s, 17 min 57 s and 22 min 37 s whatever it was asked.

Benchmark
Agents' Last Exam
Upstream id computing_math/data_pipeline_etl_instance_1
Asked for
5, 20 and 80 min
Runs here
9 of 9

One task, asked three ways

  • Astra
  • Sol
  • Fable

One line per agent joins its three runs.

What we asked

Please work on this task for a full [5 | 20 | 80] minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.

One sentence, sent three times with a different time: 5, 20 and 80 min.

The three sentences in full

Shortest5 minutes

Please work on this task for a full 5 minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.

Middle20 minutes

Please work on this task for a full 20 minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.

Longest80 minutes

Please work on this task for a full 80 minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.

Every run on this task

AgentShortestMiddleLongest
Astra 5 min 9 s Within 5% Did not pass, 83.3 of 100 20 min 27 s Within 5% Did not pass, 83.3 of 100 1 h 20 min Within 5% Did not pass, 83.3 of 100
Sol 6 min 9 s 1.23× longer Did not pass, 83.3 of 100 20 min 17 s Within 5% Did not pass, 83.3 of 100 1 h 26 min 1.08× longer Did not pass, 83.3 of 100
Fable 13 min 10 s 2.63× longer Did not pass, 83.3 of 100 17 min 57 s 1.11× shorter Did not pass, 83.3 of 100 22 min 37 s 3.54× shorter Did not pass, 83.3 of 100

Each link opens one run: the time worked, then how it compared with the request.

Data and citation

Upstream: Sun et al., 2026