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

Longer

3.95× longer

Worked 295% past the request, 29 min 29 s over.

Asked for
10 minutes
Worked
39 min 29 s
Grade
Did not pass
Score 92 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
10 minutes: “Please work on this task for a full 10 minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.”
Worked
39 min 29 s (2,369 s)
Ratio
3.95× 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 0.92. Pass rule: Full pass: a checker score of 1.
Score
92 of 100
Graded afterwards. The paper's value.
Wording
The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
Run id
mt3mmi3mqf
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
Shortest (this run)10 minutes39 min 29 s3.95× longer
Middle40 minutes27 min 30 s1.45× shorter
Longest150 minutes1 h 6 min2.28× shorter
Other agents, shortest request
GPT 6 Astra10 minutes12 min 51 s1.29× longer
GPT 5.6 Sol10 minutes22 min 30 s2.25× longer

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Data and citation

Upstream: Sun et al., 2026