Δτ-Bench: Pushing Agents Toward a Moving Capability
The paper introduces Δτ-Bench, an executable agent benchmark modeling evolving tool ecosystems, where services are replaced or changed and more efficient alternatives emerge. It comprises 1,588 validated multi-turn tasks across 42 domains and six ecosystem states. The strongest evaluated model or harness reaches only 42.3% task success, and existing skill-learning gains do not consistently carry over as the ecosystem changes. The authors propose Steward, an ecosystem manager that incrementally maintains skills and dynamically provisions tools during execution, which reportedly sustains higher success with lower maintenance overhead.
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The paper introduces Δτ-Bench, an executable agent benchmark modeling evolving tool ecosystems, where services are replaced or changed and more efficient alternatives emerge. It comprises 1,588 validated multi-turn tasks across 42 domains and six ecosystem states. The strongest evaluated model or harness reaches only 42.3% task success, and existing skill-learning gains do not consistently carry over as the ecosystem changes. The authors propose Steward, an ecosystem manager that incrementally maintains skills and dynamically provisions tools during execution, which reportedly sustains higher success with lower maintenance overhead.
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- Δτ-Bench contains 1,588 validated multi-turn tasks across 42 domains and six successive ecosystem states.
- The strongest evaluated model or harness achieves only 42.3% task success on the benchmark.
- Initial gains from existing skill-learning methods do not consistently translate into better adaptation as ecosystems evolve.
- Steward jointly manages tools and procedural knowledge via incremental skill maintenance and dynamic provisioning.
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Real tool ecosystems change over time, so agents must adapt rather than rely on fixed procedures. A benchmark that measures this adaptation gives researchers a way to test whether agents can find efficient new tool paths and recover from broken workflows.
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