AGENTS · EDITORIAL CLASSIFICATION · NOT A BENCHMARK
DO I NEED THE BIG MODEL FOR…
Run a multi-step web research agent
Frontier-model jobYES — USE THE STRONG MODEL
“Planning, retrieval, and synthesis across steps benefit from frontier capability.”
WHY THIS VERDICTSTART WITH
START WITH
THE WORK.
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The task requires several dependent reasoning steps.
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Several plausible interpretations can remain live.
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A plausible wrong answer could create material cost or harm.
RECOMMENDED SETUPStrongest suitable model + tools + task-specific evals
NON-NEGOTIABLE
Constrain sources, capture citations, cap spend, and verify the final claims.
REASONING5/5
AMBIGUITY5/5
ERROR COST4/5
CONTEXT5/5