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hexbench

The hex-bench benchmark, a personal evaluation suite for the hex project, tests personal-assistant workflows using Inspect AI's react solver against a local OpenAI-compatible llama.cpp endpoint, with 18 tasks across six categories scored per epoch. Baseline runs use larger cloud models for comparison, and scores are reported with 95% Wilson confidence intervals, where overlapping bands indicate statistical ties rather than definitive rankings.

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What this measures #

hex-bench is a personal benchmark for the hex project that tests the personal-assistant workflow of this project: every task goes through Inspect AI’s react

solver, which may call real tools — Todoist, Obsidian, web search — against a local OpenAI-compatible llama.cpp endpoint. Each of the six categories below has three tasks (18 in the full suite); every task is scored per epoch.

baseline runs are made against bigger cloud models to establish a point of comparison of sorts.

Tool use— calls the right real tool (Todoist / Obsidian / web) on live data.** Reasoning**— multi-step analysis over retrieved information.** Verbosity**— answer length: complete but no filler.** Agentic loop**— knowing when to stop acting and answer.** Understanding**— answers that match the actual source material.** Response format**— output conforms to the required format (bullets, JSON, YAML, table, …).

score = mean of all scorer values for the task (0–1). quality = mean of the rubric scorers: judge

, loop_eval

, clarification_eval

.

protocol = mean of the deterministic compliance scorers: tool_used

, fmt_*

.

pass score ≥ 1.0 · partial 0 < score < 1 · fail score = 0.

Timings — eval t/s, gen t/s, and wall time come from sample_speed()

; older runs may lack them (shown as –). ± / green band — 95% uncertainty on the pass rate at this sample count (Wilson interval). Overlapping bands mean the models are statistical ties, not a real ranking.

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