Agents' Last Exam, shortest of three requests
GPT 5.6 Sol on “Audit four Chinese M&A filings for inconsistencies”
Within 5%
Within 5%Worked 104% of the time asked, within 5% of it.
- Asked for
- 10 minutes
- Worked
- 10 min 27 s
- Grade
- Did not pass
- Score 0 of 100. Graded afterwards.
- How it ended
- Ended on its own
Every detail of this run
- Agent
- GPT 5.6 Sol, in Codex
- Benchmark
- Agents' Last Exam
- 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
- 10 min 27 s (627 s)
- Ratio
- 1.04× 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. Pass rule: Full pass: a checker score of 1.
- Score
- 0 of 100
- Graded afterwards. The paper's value.
- Wording
- The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
- Run id
- zg5upb2hfm
- Data release
- 26 Sep 2026
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| Sol on this task | Asked | Worked | Split | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shortest (this run) | 10 minutes | 10 min 27 s | Within 5% | |
| Middle | 40 minutes | 40 min 19 s | Within 5% | |
| Longest | 150 minutes | 8 min 18 s | 18.09× shorter | |
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| GPT 6 Astra | 10 minutes | 10 min 6 s | Within 5% | |
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Data and citation
Upstream: Sun et al., 2026