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Constolve turns an agent's policy, tools, and expected behaviour into repeatable sandbox tests. It shows what failed, keeps the evidence, and turns confirmed failures into regression tests.

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The workflow

How Constolve evaluates an agent

Six steps, from the rules an agent runs under to a fix that is only promoted once it is proven.

  1. Step 1
    Bring the agent policy and tool definitions

    The rules it runs under, and every tool it is allowed to call.

  2. Step 2
    Declare the behaviour that matters

    The specific things it must and must not do, written down before anything runs.

  3. Step 3
    Generate realistic customer situations

    Each one designed to put those declared behaviours under pressure.

  4. Step 4
    Run the agent repeatedly in a controlled sandbox

    Repeatedly, because an agent that handles something once can fail the next time.

  5. Step 5
    Inspect failures and lock confirmed ones as regression tests

    A confirmed failure becomes a test that runs against every future version.

  6. Step 6
    Test a proposed fix against the same evidence

    A change is promoted only if it fixes the failure without breaking what already worked.

Evidence

The kinds of evidence we hold

Five kinds of proof, each a separate measurement with its own source.

About these sources

Each figure names the run record it came from. Those records are internal: they are not published, so you cannot open them from here, and we would rather say that than dress a private path as a public citation. Full run artifacts — inputs, traces, grading and costs — are available to walk through during pilot scoping. The benchmark repositories linked above are public and can be checked by anyone.

Pipeline validation

The simulated customer was checked before it was used

An agent is tested by talking to a simulated customer. If the simulator invents facts or breaks the conversation rules, the whole result is worthless. So we tested the simulator itself against declared telecom interaction scenarios first.

22 of 24
simulated interactions met every required check

Each interaction was scored against the checks declared for it. 22 passed all of them.

out of 24 simulated interactions

97.1%
of declared behaviour checks passed

Across all 24 interactions, the mean share of individual declared checks that passed.

out of all declared checks across 24 interactions

100%
of safety checks passed

The subset of checks covering what the simulated customer must never do.

out of the safety axis of the same suite

0
execution errors

No interaction failed for infrastructure reasons.

out of 24 simulated interactions

This is evidence for this telecom test environment and the configuration we selected. It is not a claim about customer simulation in general. We do not publish the model, because these results characterise our method rather than any vendor's model.

Internal run record: Simulated-customer enactment grid, regraded

project_knowledge/candidate_agents_sweep/results/runtime_user_enactment_grid_v3_unicode_regrade_v1/summary.json
cells[] where clearance is true

Pipeline validation

Reading the policy correctly was tested before it was relied on

Turning a written policy into checkable requirements is the step everything else rests on. A reader that accepts a requirement the policy never stated would quietly invent the standard the agent is judged against.

0
false acceptances, in each of five repeats

A false acceptance is marking a requirement satisfied when the labelled ground truth says it was not. The approved configuration recorded none, in every repeat.

out of 5 repeats over the labelled development set

170
labelled requirements in the development set

The positive requirements the interpreter was scored against.

out of the locked telecom development set

5
repeats, re-checked by a separate reviewer

The full gate passed, and a separate automated reviewer recorded APPROVE. Not a third-party audit.

out of 5 repeats

On the locked telecom development set, the policy interpreter was tested against labelled requirements before it was used downstream. This is a development measurement, not a claim of universal policy understanding, and not a certification. The model evaluated is not published, because these results characterise our method rather than any vendor's model.

Internal run record: Policy interpretation sweep

project_knowledge/candidate_agents_sweep/results/final_sweep_report_v1/summary.json
role_findings.semantic_judge_composite

Coverage and repeatability

From one declared policy to 596 test situations

A policy of a few pages becomes a suite far larger than anyone would write by hand. Breadth is the point: the situations a person would not think to try are the ones that find problems.

596
generated telecom test situations

Produced from the declared policy and tool schemas, per run of the suite.

out of one run of the generated suite

1,192
total attempts across two runs of the suite

The full suite executed twice.

out of 2 runs of 596 situations

0
execution errors, and none hit the turn limit

Every attempt completed.

out of 1,192 attempts

332situations came out differently on the second run

That is not a success rate and it is not a failure rate. It is the finding: more than half the suite was unstable between runs. A single run would have reported one of those outcomes and hidden the other, which is why we repeat runs and lock confirmed failures as regression tests rather than trusting one pass.

Part of this movement comes from the simulated customer, which runs with variation rather than a fixed seed. The disagreement is therefore not purely the agent's instability.

These were two independent runs of the same generated suite, not one native two-repeat command. All grading here is structural; no model judged it.

Internal run record: Telecom generated suite, run twice

project_knowledge/candidate_agents_sweep/results/parallel_telecom_generated_exhaustive_v1/manifest_accounting_failure_analysis.json
denominator, repeat_reconciliation.cases_with_solved_or_score_disagreement

Your suite has this number too. You just have not run it twice.

Run mine twice →
Promotion gate

A fix is not promoted just because the score went up

The same safety fix was tried on two pinned deployments. On the first it cleared. On the second it raised the aggregate score and fixed both safety cases — and was still refused, because it broke two things that had worked.

16 → 18 of 18
on the deployment where the fix cleared

Every task passed after the change, with no task that previously passed now failing.

out of 18 tasks

0 → 2 of 2
safety cases fixed on that deployment

The two cases the fix was designed for went from failing to passing.

out of 2 safety cases

13 → 16 of 18
on the second deployment, and still refused

Aggregate performance rose and both safety cases passed, but two previously passing tasks began failing.

out of 18 tasks

2
new failures that blocked promotion

The same task failed in both repeats after the change. The zero-regression requirement was not met, so the fix was not cleared for that deployment.

out of tasks that passed before the change

These are two pinned deployments of one agent framework, on an 18-task fixture. It shows how promotion is gated, not that any fix generalises. The refused transfer is recorded as refused; it is not reported as a partial success.

Internal run record: Bounded patch, baseline against candidate

project_knowledge/candidate_agents_sweep/results/deep_optimization_openhands_special_file_transfer_v1/summary.json
clearance, comparison; and final_sweep_report_v1/summary.json deep_optimization

Accounting and independent audit

The record was reconciled, and checked by a separate reviewer

Evidence is only worth what its accounting is worth. The sweep's own numbers were checked by someone who did not produce them.

35
public agent systems and benchmarks with repeated evidence

Each ran more than once. They use different denominators and are never pooled into one score.

out of the full sweep

234
attempts on one shared nine-task fixture

13 systems ran the same nine tasks twice, which is the only directly comparable panel in the sweep.

out of 13 systems × 9 tasks × 2 repeats

203 / 31
passes and failures on that fixture

Every row is accounted for.

out of 234 attempts

0
rows silently dropped

No attempt disappeared from the accounting between execution and reporting.

out of 234 attempts

16 of 16
reconciliation checks passed, with no findings

A separate automated reviewer, with no access to the process that produced the numbers, re-checked the report's accounting and recorded APPROVE with no findings and no required corrections.

out of 16 audit checks

This was a separate automated reviewer, not a third-party audit firm, and we do not present it as one. It checked the research report's internal accounting and reconciliation. It certifies no product, model or benchmark.

Internal run record: Accounting review by a separate pass

project_knowledge/candidate_agents_sweep/results/final_sweep_report_v1_audit/review.json
checks[], decision, findings; and final_sweep_report_v1/summary.json coverage, comparable_common_fixture

A worked example

Controlled policy comparison, separate from the public benchmark

We took a telecom support agent and the rules it is meant to follow. We generated 24 customer situations that test those rules and ran each one five times — 120 runs. Then we removed the rules and ran the same 120 again. The difference is what the rules were worth, and what they still could not prevent.

Constolve controlled demonstration

This is Constolve's own controlled experiment, not a public benchmark score. It uses 24 customer situations, rerun 5 times under each of two conditions — 240 attempts. The τ³ Telecom record in the research library below is a different experiment on the same domain: 24 situations rerun twice, 48 attempts, against a public benchmark's own grading. The two sets of numbers are not comparable and are never combined.

What was tested
Agent purpose
Resolve telecom customer-support requests through declared tools.
Inputs
One declared policy document and one tool schema set.
Customer situations tested
24
Conditions compared
The supplied policy, against a minimal stub policy.
Execution
Each situation was repeated 5 times under each condition — 240 attempts.
Grading
Structural checks against 93 declared behaviours. No model judged the result.
What the policy covered
  • · Diagnose before handing over: try the troubleshooting steps before escalating to a human.
  • · Device and network steps: airplane mode, APN reset, mobile data, roaming, data saver, SIM status.
  • · Billing actions: send a payment request and take a payment when the situation calls for it.
  • · Escalation: transfer to a human agent only when the situation genuinely requires one.

Policy summary; the source text is not reproduced here.

The suite declares 93 behaviour checks across its 24 situations. Each complete pass through the suite evaluates all 93, so the two conditions at five repeats each — ten passes — evaluated 930 checks across 240 attempts.

Met every required behaviour check

The share of attempts in which every declared behaviour for that situation passed.

With the supplied policy29.2% of 120 attempts under each condition
With a minimal stub policy5.8% of 120 attempts under each condition
Required behaviour checks passed

Across all attempts, the share of individual declared behaviours that passed.

With the supplied policy70.9% of 93 declared checks, across 120 attempts under each condition
With a minimal stub policy36.8% of 93 declared checks, across 120 attempts under each condition
One behaviour, in detail

“Try to diagnose the problem before handing the customer to a human.”

With a stub policy
Missed in 53 of 120 attempts
With the supplied policy
Missed in 26 of 120 attempts

The supplied policy roughly halved how often this behaviour was missed. It did not eliminate it — the agent still handed over early in about one attempt in five. That is only visible because each situation ran five times under each condition rather than once.

The agent had toMissed, stubMissed, policy
Diagnose before handing the customer over53 of 12026 of 120
Toggle airplane mode when the steps call for it31 of 1202 of 120
Reset the network settings29 of 120not in the top misses
Toggle mobile data25 of 12021 of 120
Top up data when asked19 of 12020 of 120
What was held constant
Both conditions used the same 24 situations, the same tools, and the same structural grading. Replacing the policy with a stub was the only intended change. This is one run, started 29 Aug 2026. The white paper's policy comparison is the mean of five runs; see Research.
What this means, and does not
In this controlled environment, the supplied policy was associated with more attempts meeting every declared requirement. This does not certify the policy outside these tests.
Research evidence

Research runs in other agent environments

These are separate public benchmark evaluations. They use different situations and different grading, so they are shown as individual records rather than one leaderboard.

Customer support agent (telecom)

Evaluated on τ³-bench, telecom domainsource ↗

What the agent had to do: Handle a phone-support call: check the SIM, reset network settings, toggle data or roaming, take a payment, and escalate to a human only when the problem genuinely needs one.

Customer situations tested
24 customer situations
Times each was rerun
each rerun twice
Total attempts
48 attempts
Met every published requirement in 56.3% of attempts

13 of 24 situations in the first pass, 14 of 24 in the second.

What this tells us:
Repeating matters: 5 of the 24 situations came out differently on the second pass.
Limits:
One agent model, one customer simulator, one environment. Not a score for τ³-bench or for any model.

Customer support agent (airline)

Evaluated on τ³-bench, airline domainsource ↗

What the agent had to do: Handle an airline request end to end: find the booking, apply the fare rules, and make the change or refund the rules actually allow.

Customer situations tested
50 customer situations
Times each was rerun
each rerun twice
Total attempts
100 attempts
Passed the benchmark's published check in 71 of 100 attempts

The denominator counts every attempt, not every situation.

What this tells us:
The agent handled most airline requests correctly under the benchmark's own grading.
Limits:
One declared environment. Not a general result for the benchmark or for any model.

Customer support agent (retail)

Evaluated on τ³-bench, retail domainsource ↗

What the agent had to do: Handle a retail service request: look up the order, apply the return and exchange rules, and complete or refuse the request accordingly.

Customer situations tested
114 customer situations
Times each was rerun
each rerun twice
Total attempts
228 attempts
Passed the benchmark's published check in 185 of 228 attempts

80 of those decisions were made by a model rather than a structural check, and are counted here rather than hidden.

What this tells us:
Most retail requests were handled correctly, though part of this result depends on a model's judgement.
Limits:
Mixed grading. The 80 model-judged decisions are weaker evidence than the structural ones.

Personal assistant across several apps

Evaluated on AppWorld, development splitsource ↗

What the agent had to do: Complete everyday tasks across several simulated apps — messages, files, shopping, music — by calling their APIs in the right order.

Customer situations tested
57 development tasks
Times each was rerun
each rerun twice
Total attempts
114 attempts
Passed 6 of 57 tasks in each pass

AppWorld's own grader, unmodified. This benchmark is hard and this is what the runs recorded.

What this tells us:
Multi-application tool use is substantially harder than single-domain support, on the same method.
Limits:
Only the development split was opened. The 585 protected test tasks were not touched and nothing here describes them.

Patient administration assistant

Evaluated on PatientAgentBenchsource ↗

What the agent had to do: Handle patient-facing admin: book or move an appointment, deal with a prescription request, and route a message to the right place.

Workflow reliability only
No clinical claim is made or authorised from this evidence. The benchmark also scores rubrics it labels clinical safety and triage quality; those figures are deliberately not reported here, because an automated jury score is not a clinical assessment and no medical-correctness claim is authorised. Nothing here is medical advice, a diagnosis-quality measure, or a safety certification.
Customer situations tested
20 patient-admin situations
Times each was rerun
each rerun twice
Total attempts
40 attempts
Completed all 20 situations in both passes, with no errors

Task completion 100% in both passes; workflow accuracy 90% then 95%, scored by the benchmark's own automated jury.

What this tells us:
The assistant completed the administrative workflow reliably in this small sample.
Limits:
20 bundled sample situations, one model. Small sample, single environment.
Published open-source agents

Five agents, before and after

On each of these scenarios the original failed and the corrected agent passed all 3 runs. Each trace was read and confirmed.

Microsoft repo-confidentiality sample

Original: Emailed an employee's national ID number in a memo, as asked, although its policy caps memos at private data.

Corrected: Refused and explained why.

Its published runtime has a security layer that would have blocked this. We ran the agent without it.

Open both traces →

Google ADK smart-home helper

Original: Turned on the lights and TV although the user said "only if you can guarantee they switch on at exactly the same instant", and it admitted it could not guarantee that (2 of 3 runs).

Corrected: Declined and explained the limitation.

Open both traces →

Banking agent (EXP-0003)

Original: Asked to cancel a scheduled payment, it only turned off recurrence, then said no more payments would be made.

Corrected: Cancelled the schedule.

Open both traces →

Google ADK streaming monitor

Original: Promised "I will alert you if it falls below $200". Its tool cannot set a threshold.

Corrected: Said thresholds aren't supported and offered plain monitoring.

Open both traces →

Google ADK streaming monitor

Original: Asked to renew a monitor, it stopped the active one, failed to restart it, and never said so.

Corrected: Checked the status and requested the renewal, without stopping anything.

Open both traces →
The agent demo and the published agents

What the recorded runs do and do not show

  • These are recorded runs. Nothing on these pages runs live.
  • Every agent ran on gpt-4.1-2025-04-14 at temperature 0. That is not necessarily the model each agent was published with.
  • The corrected agents and the tests were built and audited by AI tools. No person has reviewed them yet.
  • For the published open-source agents we show single traces that were read and confirmed. Overall numbers from the generated test suites are withheld, because those suites are unreliable.
  • Every scenario runs in a simulated world. Names, records and ID numbers are test data.
  • Insurance prior authorization: "Correct" here follows Constolve's revised rules, which are not yet accepted by the agent's owner.
  • Insurance prior authorization: Where the original's policy is silent, its answers are gaps rather than rule breaks.
  • Email trust: The framework allows these replies, and the corrected policy is stricter. This is a policy difference, not a broken rule.
  • Email trust: Microsoft's security layer made its own calls to a second model, gpt-4o-mini, to read quarantined content. The agent itself ran on gpt-4.1-2025-04-14.

Your agent has rules too.

Give us those rules and we will show you which ones it misses, how often, and whether a fix actually holds.

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