AgentMercury Paper: Training Agents in Unrelated Simulated Worlds Beats Benchmark Mimicry
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-28
AgentMercury research demonstrates that agent training environments should not mirror evaluation sets but instead be built from business scenarios. Agents trained in simulated companies unrelated to the benchmark outperformed those trained on the benchmark itself. The method generated 4,783 simulated companies, each with unique services, tools, and databases. Additionally, the environment construction process proved learnable: a model's ability to author valid companies rose from 3.3% to 83.3% after fine-tuning on construction traces, matching Claude Opus 4.8.
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