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Microsoft and Hugging Face release ThinkingBox, a benchmark that grades AI agents on backend state across 507 workflows

The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.

AI summary

Microsoft and Hugging Face released ThinkingBox, an agent benchmark that grades terminal backend state and side effects rather than final responses or tool-call validity.

Why it matters

The paper's 20-run repeat metric and failure breakdown show why a clean tool-call trace can still leave the wrong database state.

Source: Hugging Face Blog · huggingface.co