Inkling holds #9 among open models, with Bash Recovery as its clear strength
arena · x · 2026-07-21
Inkling is now ranked #9 among open models and #30 overall in Agent Arena.
- Best spot: Bash Recovery at #16 with +6.4% net improvement.
- Weak spots: Praise vs Complaint (#38, -18.0%), Steerability (#35, -10.4%), and Confirmed Task Success (#29, -5.6%).
- Tool hallucination is roughly flat at #35 (-0.9%).
- The post is a compact snapshot of Inkling’s strengths and weaknesses in long-horizon agent tasks.
Related event: Thinking Machines' Inkling Debuts at 9th in Open-Weight on Agent Arena(3 posts)→
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