Agents' Last Exam, shortest of three requests

Claude Fable 5.1 on “Compress a 3D Gaussian Splatting scene without losing quality”

Longer

10.94× longer

Worked 994% past the request, 39 min 45 s over.

Asked for
4 minutes
Worked
43 min 45 s
Grade
Passed
Score 100 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
4 minutes: “Please work on this task for a full 4 minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.”
Worked
43 min 45 s (2,625 s)
Ratio
10.94× the request
How it ended
Ended on its own
Grade
Passed
It passed the task's checker in full. The grader returned 1. Pass rule: Full pass: a checker score of 1.
Score
100 of 100
Graded afterwards. The paper's value.
Wording
The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
Run id
vpjnuew7cy
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)4 minutes43 min 45 s10.94× longer
Middle15 minutes13 min 21 s1.12× shorter
Longest60 minutes46 min 53 s1.28× shorter
Other agents, shortest request
GPT 6 Astra4 minutes6 min 39 s1.66× longer
GPT 5.6 Sol4 minutes10 min 55 s2.73× longer

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Data and citation

Upstream: Sun et al., 2026