Trial by Trace - Codex - Agent Score: leaderboard

Trial by Trace measures model task performance under a named native agent harness on 95 mechanism-focused tasks per model. Agent Pass requires all agent task criteria to pass; Agent Score is criterion-level performance. Harness-only scores, costs and mixed Agent/Harness composites are not admitted. arXiv v1; 95 tasks per model/harness; one selected execution including recovery replacements; DeepSeek-V4-Flash semantic judge with variable scoring budgets; native harness versions, model API snapshots and reasoning effort unreported. Metric: Agent Score (%), higher is better.

Metric: Agent Score (%). Source: tracelite.ai. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 9 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Kimi K3 (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=Trial-by-Trace; harness=Codex; snapshot-and-effort=unreported)74
2Gemini 3.7 Flash (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=Trial-by-Trace; harness=Codex; snapshot-and-effort=unreported)73.8
3Grok 4.6 (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=Trial-by-Trace; harness=Codex; snapshot-and-effort=unreported)72.9
4Qwen 3.8 Max (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=Trial-by-Trace; harness=Codex; snapshot-and-effort=unreported)72.1
5GPT-5.6 Sol (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=Trial-by-Trace; harness=Codex; snapshot-and-effort=unreported)71.8
6Claude Opus 5 (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=Trial-by-Trace; harness=Codex; snapshot-and-effort=unreported)70.3
7GLM-5.3 (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=Trial-by-Trace; harness=Codex; snapshot-and-effort=unreported)68.6
8DeepSeek V4 Pro (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=Trial-by-Trace; harness=Codex; snapshot-and-effort=unreported)68.4
9Hy3 (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=Trial-by-Trace; harness=Codex; snapshot-and-effort=unreported)64.2

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