Rigorous Red-Teamed Sandbox Evaluation: What Coding Agents Can Actually Solve
tomssilver · x · 2026-09-25
A new paper from Tom Silver's group systematically evaluates coding agents (like the popular Astra-style agents) in a strict, red-teamed sandbox environment, asking what they can rigorously solve at all.
- They build a controlled sandbox evaluation framework that prevents agents from "passing" via shortcuts or environment exploits
- After red-team validation, the coding agents turn out to be surprisingly smart, showing solid performance on verifiable tasks
- The paper includes videos and is the first-author's debut work with the group
Directly relevant to agent eval engineering: how to design cheat-proof sandbox evaluations.
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