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Microsoft and Hugging Face introduce ThinkingBox to evaluate agents by final system state

What changed
Microsoft and Hugging Face introduced ThinkingBox on October 3, a benchmark with 507 stateful workflows that grades AI agents by the backend state and side effects they actually leave behind rather than by their final text. Tasks run in isolated MCP tool sessions and are repeated 20 times, separating one-off success from reliable execution across repeated attempts.
- Original title
- The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
- Source
- Microsoft · huggingface.co
- Topic
- Development
- Source month
- 2026-10
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