tool-use

band: coolmomentum: stable score: 0.01

temperature history

Episodes (6)

Independent evaluations will determine whether DFAH-Bench’s trajectory-agreement metrics reveal consequential agent nondeterminism that outcome-only evaluations miss.

expiredconvergesscott: high

Tencent will publicly confirm or release Hunyuan Hy4 as a flagship expert-level model with integrated tool-use capabilities following its reported gray testing.

resolvedconvergesscott: medium

Independent evaluations will determine whether IBM Granite 4.2 30B’s configurable reasoning modes provide useful coding and tool-use quality with practical local-inference latency and memory costs.

expiredknownscott: medium

Independent replication will determine whether jointly training language models to create and use tools produces tools that improve agent performance beyond the model that created them.

expiredknownscott: low

Blocks.ai claims CLI-based agent tools can avoid roughly 26,000 tokens of MCP schema overhead, making CLI access materially more context- and cost-efficient for large tool sets.

expiredconvergesscott: medium

The researchers claim attacks expressed as benign-looking MCP tool-call sequences bypass leading text-centric guardrails more than half the time, implying agent defenses must reason about authorization and action sequences rather than prompts alone.

expiredconvergesscott: medium

Trajectory notes

2026-09-06T20:29:42Z: mcp-tool-sequence-guardrail-bypass closed (faded) — The claimed results independently support Scott’s load-bearing position that model-level textual guardrails are not authorization boundaries and that tool actions require deterministic, least-privilege runtime enforcement—dire
2026-09-03T12:29:26Z: blocks-mcp-cli-context-cost closed (faded) — Blocks.ai independently quantifies the exact context-tax argument in Scott’s Code-First Architecture and “Why Code Execution Beats MCP,” creating a potential dated-receipts and benchmarking opportunity. The claimed 26,000-token figur
2026-09-03T12:28:22Z: granite-42-30b-local-reasoning closed (faded) — The radar already tracks essentially the same evaluation territory in `radar:claude-code-effort-controls`, `radar:mindcontrol-llamacpp-reasoning-budgets`, and `radar:kat-coder-v2-5-dev-validation`; Granite 4.2 is a new candidate r
2026-08-28T10:31:30Z: tencent-hunyuan-hy4-gray-test closed (absorbed) — A Tencent flagship explicitly designed for tool use would converge with Scott’s view that useful agent capability combines a model with an execution surface, and would create a concrete candidate for his provider-side, trace-bac
2026-08-28T03:29:58Z: cross-model-tool-creation-transfer closed (faded) — The radar already tracks this same cross-model-transfer question in “Independent testing will determine whether a harness trained with one frozen LLM,” while Scott’s Generative Pendulum and Self-Equipping Agent work already ar