Agents' Last Exam, shortest of three requests
Claude Fable 5.1 on “Build a clean retail SQLite warehouse from messy inputs”
Longer
2.63× longerWorked 163% past the request, 8 min 10 s over.
- Asked for
- 5 minutes
- Worked
- 13 min 10 s
- Grade
- Did not pass
- Score 83.3 of 100. Graded afterwards.
- How it ended
- Ended on its own
Every detail of this run
- Agent
- Claude Fable 5.1, in Claude Code
- Benchmark
- Agents' Last Exam
- Asked for
- 5 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.”
- Worked
- 13 min 10 s (790 s)
- Ratio
- 2.63× the request
- How it ended
- Ended on its own
- Grade
- Did not pass
- It did not pass the task's checker in full. The grader returned 0.833. Pass rule: Full pass: a checker score of 1.
- Score
- 83.3 of 100
- Graded afterwards. The paper's value.
- Wording
- The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
- Run id
- 2ousb4iiwk
- Data release
- 26 Sep 2026
Related runs
| Fable on this task | Asked | Worked | Split | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shortest (this run) | 5 minutes | 13 min 10 s | 2.63× longer | |
| Middle | 20 minutes | 17 min 57 s | 1.11× shorter | |
| Longest | 80 minutes | 22 min 37 s | 3.54× shorter | |
| Other agents, shortest request | ||||
| GPT 6 Astra | 5 minutes | 5 min 9 s | Within 5% | |
| GPT 5.6 Sol | 5 minutes | 6 min 9 s | 1.23× longer | |
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Data and citation
Upstream: Sun et al., 2026