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Eight Steps Were Enough to Flag Some Failing Runs

OnTrack compares streaming agent structure with successful trajectories at about a millisecond per step.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-10-09-015
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Summary

OnTrack compares streaming agent structure with successful trajectories at about a millisecond per step.

On SWE-bench trajectories, the first eight steps improved failure ranking by 0.057 AUROC over content-similarity methods. A tested abort policy saved about 18% of compute destined for failing runs; five of six aborts were correct. Monitoring weakened as access to reference runs and schemas decreased.

Why it matters

OnTrack compares streaming agent structure with successful trajectories at about a millisecond per step.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. OnTrack compares streaming agent structure with successful trajectories at about a millisecond per step.

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Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2610.12375, original v1arXiv / submitting research authors · primary research

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