LabyrinthBench: Measuring Agent Context Recall Shows Wiping History Wins
jwdeaver · reddit · 2026-08-07
LabyrinthBench is a new local-focused, judge-free benchmark designed to measure LLM context recall and currency under interference for multi-step agentic tasks.
- No LLM Judge Required: Uses deterministic mazes and logic gates (e.g., variable tracking, chained calculations) to objectively score models without subjective evaluation overhead.
- Targeted Pain Point: Simulates the common issue where models lose track of crucial information after hitting context limits or triggering compaction during long agent runs.
- Counter-intuitive Findings: In the first experiment on a 20-gate corridor with 13 local models, wiping the full chat history every turn and re-injecting only the model's recorded gate answers performed better in 7 out of 9 models. The same context-management trick can significantly improve some models while breaking others.
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