WildClawBench, longest of three requests

GPT 6 Astra on “Find a shortest coauthorship chain between two scholars”

Longer

2.00× longer

Worked 100% past the request, 40 min over.

Asked

Worked

Dashed line: safety cutoff at 1 h 20 min

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Agent: GPT 6 Astra, in Codex
Benchmark: WildClawBench
Task: Find a shortest coauthorship chain between two scholars
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: 1 h 20 min (4,800 s)
Ratio: 2.00× the request
How it ended: Stopped by the safety cutoff
Grade: 0; Task grader score, 0 to 1 (a model judge only where the task calls for one). No official pass rule.
Score: 0 of 100; Nothing to grade, counted as 0. The paper's value.
Wording: The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
Run id: nqevwbijno
Data release: 26 Sep 2026

The other requests for GPT 6 Astra on this task, and the other agents at this request
Astra on this task	Asked	Worked	Result
Shortest	2 minutes	1 h 20 min	40.00× longer
Middle	8 minutes	1 h 20 min	10.00× longer
Longest (this run)	40 minutes	1 h 20 min	2.00× longer
Other agents, longest request
GPT 5.6 Sol	40 minutes	1 h 20 min	2.00× longer
Claude Fable 5.1	40 minutes	25 min 27 s	1.57× shorter

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