Agents' Last Exam, shortest of three requests

Claude Fable 5.1 on “Route a KiCad PCB from the staged schematic”

Longer

2.59× longer

Worked 159% past the request, 15 min 55 s over.

Asked

Worked

Safety cutoff 5 h, off the scale

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Agent: Claude Fable 5.1, in Claude Code
Benchmark: Agents' Last Exam
Task: Route a KiCad PCB from the staged schematic
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: 25 min 55 s (1,555 s)
Ratio: 2.59× the request
How it ended: Stopped by an error
Grade: Did not pass; It did not pass the task's checker in full. The grader returned 0. Pass rule: Full pass: a checker score of 1.
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: rsnxtlyiyf
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 task	Asked	Worked	Result
Shortest (this run)	10 minutes	25 min 55 s	2.59× longer
Middle	40 minutes	50 min 42 s	1.27× longer
Longest	150 minutes	39 min 36 s	3.79× shorter
Other agents, shortest request
GPT 6 Astra	10 minutes	10 min 23 s	Within 5%
GPT 5.6 Sol	10 minutes	1 h 57 min	11.70× longer

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