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METR March 15, 2024 guide

Capability elicitation: document harness fixes without hiding failed runs

METR’s March 2024 guidance distinguishes apparent failures caused by infrastructure or tool problems from failures that reveal a capability limit, while recognizing cases where the distinction depends on the intended deployment. It recommends improving an agent on development tasks and inspecting traces before interpreting evaluation results. The proposed failure taxonomy had not been empirically validated at publication.

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AI Engineer October 2, 2026 video

Frontend verification: combine deterministic replay with explicit review of visible changes

Gabriel Spencer-Harper explains a frontend review workflow that records non-production sessions, replays them before and after a change, and presents screenshot differences for judgment. Recorded network responses and browser scheduling controls reduce incidental variation, while executed-line coverage guides session selection. The method can expose visible regressions in recorded states, but coverage does not establish correctness of every state or nonvisual behavior.

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AI Engineer September 27, 2026 video

Coding-agent maintenance: preserve decisions and enforce the actual action boundary

Andrew Orobator’s publisher notes describe a feature-flag cleanup workflow that screens code complexity and experiment state before asking a coding agent to generate a patch. Skills preserve recurring decisions, work logs carry session history, and CI supplies evidence for human review. His safeguard example shows why a commit hook can miss a separate file-writing path and why an agent must not invent its own bypass exception.

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AI Engineer September 26, 2026 video

ARIA: turn production traces into regression tasks for agent changes

Zubin Aysola’s publisher notes describe an agent-improvement loop that converts production interactions into offline tasks and compares candidate configurations with the deployed agent. The system synchronizes research and production code, builds and tears down task environments, and scores both completion and relative behavior. A demonstration reproduces an SDK-usage failure and proposes an instruction change.

Christian Liebel September 17, 2026 guide

Browser AI: check model availability and make cloud fallbacks explicit

Christian Liebel’s September slides compare browser-managed AI APIs, applications that supply their own models, and emerging ways to expose website tools to agents. The examples make deployment constraints visible: browser support, model downloads, initialization, device resources, and the choice of local or remote inference. Chrome’s companion polyfill documentation confirms that a familiar browser API can use a cloud backend, changing where prompts are processed.

Wiz AI Security February 18, 2026 analysis

Detect malicious OAuth apps with contextual triage and corroborating signals

Wiz describes a detection pipeline that combines OAuth application metadata, permissions, publisher and redirect information, prevalence and cross-environment signals. LLM analysis helps interpret suspicious combinations, while clustering connects applications into potential campaigns. The article provides concrete investigation features but no controlled precision, recall or comparative accuracy results.

METR August 7, 2025 analysis

METR’s GPT-5 assessment combines capability tests with a limited safety argument

METR’s 2025 predeployment assessment examines GPT-5 through autonomous task evaluations and investigations of research capabilities, replication and strategic sabotage. The report combines observed behavior with information supplied by the developer to assess specific threat models. It also explains where short evaluation windows, benchmark saturation, incomplete elicitation and limited testing of evasion weaken the conclusions.

METR March 15, 2024 tool

METR autonomy-evaluation resources: connect tasks, harnesses and review

METR’s March 2024 resource release connects example autonomy tasks, a basic evaluation workbench, agent implementations, an evaluation protocol and elicitation guidance. It gives practitioners a starting point for constructing interactive tests rather than relying only on static question answering. The public examples are a subset, with some tasks withheld to reduce contamination.

OpenAI September 30, 2026 analysis

Protected-reasoning replay: bind portable artifacts to their authorized context

OpenAI’s September 30 disclosure describes a coordinated campaign that manipulated model interactions to reproduce protected reasoning, including replay of encrypted artifacts across conversations. The company reports stronger boundaries across users, workspaces, organizations and model families, plus streamed-output checks and account enforcement.

Google DeepMind Blog March 17, 2026 news

Cognitive evaluations: cover missing abilities and compare human distributions

Google DeepMind proposes a taxonomy of ten cognitive abilities and a three-stage evaluation protocol combining held-out AI tasks, human baselines and comparisons between performance distributions. It highlights gaps in evaluating learning, metacognition, attention, executive functions and social cognition. The contribution is a framework for designing a broader measurement program.