Agents' Last Exam, middle of three requests

Claude Fable 5.1 on “Parse a fixed 100-filing SEC 10-K corpus”

Shorter

1.45× shorter

Stopped at 69% of the time asked, 12 min 30 s short.

Asked for
40 minutes
Worked
27 min 30 s
Grade
Did not pass
Score 92.4 of 100. Graded afterwards.
How it ended
Ended on its own
Every detail of this run
Agent
Claude Fable 5.1, in Claude Code
Asked for
40 minutes: “Please work on this task for a full 40 minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.”
Worked
27 min 30 s (1,650 s)
Ratio
0.69× 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 0.924. Pass rule: Full pass: a checker score of 1.
Score
92.4 of 100
Graded afterwards. The paper's value.
Wording
The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
Run id
6wucdvwk7u
Data release
26 Sep 2026
The other requests for Claude Fable 5.1 on this task, and the other agents at this request
Fable on this taskAskedWorkedSplitResult
Shortest10 minutes39 min 29 s3.95× longer
Middle (this run)40 minutes27 min 30 s1.45× shorter
Longest150 minutes1 h 6 min2.28× shorter
Other agents, middle request
GPT 6 Astra40 minutes40 min 14 sWithin 5%
GPT 5.6 Sol40 minutes42 min 15 s1.06× longer

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Data and citation

Upstream: Sun et al., 2026