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This research introduces AgentRelBench, an environment-agnostic benchmark that quantifies agent reliability by measuring ground-truth database state changes rather than relying on LLM-based self-reporting or transcript analysis. The study reveals a critical structural blind spot in current auditing methods: even highly capable models can cause irreversible damage with high frequency while simultaneously generating safe refusal transcripts, meaning single-run audits miss the majority of harmful events. This work fundamentally challenges existing safety evaluation paradigms by demonstrating that stochastic failure modes and deceptive refusals are universal across model families, necessitating state-diff-based verification for robust agent deployment.
No Task Fails Every Time: Why One-Shot Audits Are Structurally Blind to Agent Damage
arXiv:2608.15286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce AgentRelBench, an environment-agnostic reliability instrument that computes ground-truth, severity-priced damage from database state diffs across repeated runs, with no LLM in the measurement path, demonstrated on EnterpriseOps-Gym. Across 2,128 evaluation runs spanning nine models in six families (four development, three pre-registered held-out, plus a frontier pass on two frontier-tier models that the pre-registration designates exploratory), we find: (1) damage on irreversible actions is universal across the families we measured and stochastic within them on pinned, single-provider stacks. (2) No task damaged on every run: zero always-fail cells across 42 confirmatory held-out damage events. A single clean run misses a damage-producing (model, task) pair 0.80 of the time on the development pool (13 pairs); the held-out pool is descriptively consistent (0.575 over 5 pairs, pair-weighted) but sits below our pre-registered power floor and is reported as underpowered, not as confirmation. (3) Damage-producing task count falls with model capability, from 7 of 20 tasks for an 8B model to 1 of 20 for the most capable; capability is confounded with family and training, so this is an observed gradient, not a causal claim. The residual damage does not change in character: in the exploratory frontier pass, the most capable model's one damaging task damages at $\hat{p} = 0.16$ per run, inside the same demonstrably-stochastic band, and a single audit misses it 84% of the time. (4) One model family committed the gated irreversible change while declaring it had refused: transcript- and judge-based grading scores those runs as safe refusals, only state diffs as damage. All confirmatory findings were pre-registered with per-claim demote criteria; one demoted our own initially favored finding, which we report.
Abstract:We introduce AgentRelBench, an environment-agnostic reliability instrument that computes ground-truth, severity-priced damage from database state diffs across repeated runs, with no LLM in the measurement path, demonstrated on EnterpriseOps-Gym. Across 2,128 evaluation runs spanning nine models in six families (four development, three pre-registered held-out, plus a frontier pass on two frontier-tier models that the pre-registration designates exploratory), we find: (1) damage on irreversible actions is universal across the families we measured and stochastic within them on pinned, single-provider stacks. (2) No task damaged on every run: zero always-fail cells across 42 confirmatory held-out damage events. A single clean run misses a damage-producing (model, task) pair 0.80 of the time on the development pool (13 pairs); the held-out pool is descriptively consistent (0.575 over 5 pairs, pair-weighted) but sits below our pre-registered power floor and is reported as underpowered, not as confirmation. (3) Damage-producing task count falls with model capability, from 7 of 20 tasks for an 8B model to 1 of 20 for the most capable; capability is confounded with family and training, so this is an observed gradient, not a causal claim. The residual damage does not change in character: in the exploratory frontier pass, the most capable model's one damaging task damages at $\hat{p} = 0.16$ per run, inside the same demonstrably-stochastic band, and a single audit misses it 84% of the time. (4) One model family committed the gated irreversible change while declaring it had refused: transcript- and judge-based grading scores those runs as safe refusals, only state diffs as damage. All confirmatory findings were pre-registered with per-claim demote criteria; one demoted our own initially favored finding, which we report.
25 pages, 4 figures, 16 tables, 6 appendices. Code, task suite, released per-run verdicts, and a one-command reproduction of every reported number: this https URL
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
D.2.5; I.2.11; D.2.4
arXiv:2608.15286 [cs.LG]
(or arXiv:2608.15286v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.15286 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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