HarnessOpt-Bench - OfficeQA: leaderboard

A task of HarnessOpt-Bench (Scale AI, 2026): an optimizer LLM working through a coding harness edits the deliberately untuned seed harness of an OfficeQA Pro document question-answering agent under fixed evaluation budgets, never seeing the held-out test cases, and nominates a final harness. Normalized gain is the fraction of the headroom above the held-out score of the seed agent that the nominated harness captures, negative when it is worse than the seed; higher is better.

Metric: Normalized gain ((held-out score minus seed score) / (1 minus seed score); negative when the nominated harness is worse than the seed; mean over the contestant's optimization rounds, each held-out case scored three times; OfficeQA Pro document question answering with a deepseek-v4-flash target agent; seed held-out score 0.341, 99 test cases; the optimizer edits the seed harness under fixed development and validation evaluation budgets and never sees the test partition). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 10 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Opus 50.63#22
2Claude Sonnet 50.51#111
3Kimi K30.41#54
4GPT-5.6 Sol0.29#30
5GPT-5.6 Terra0.14#62

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=harnessopt-bench-officeqa · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.