Prime Agent Coding Harness Beats Human Baseline, Outperforms Official Tools
generativist · x · 2026-08-06
PrimeIntellect has released Prime Agent, a general-purpose coding agent harness. It scored 95.5% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, surpassing the human-expert baseline.
Developer finbarrtimbers retweeted and noted that an increasing number of third-party agent harnesses are showing stronger performance than Anthropic's official tools like Claude Code/Codex.
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