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AgentTime Benchmark Tests AI Agents' Runtime Estimation and Control

AgentTime is a new benchmark designed to evaluate AI agents' ability to estimate and control their own runtime, focusing on duration-following and time-awareness. This addresses a gap in prior research that has not explored native agent runtime control.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-10-07T12:26:24+00:00 Detected 2026-10-08T05:17:37+00:00
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AgentTime is a new benchmark designed to evaluate AI agents' ability to estimate and control their own runtime, focusing on duration-following and time-awareness. This addresses a gap in prior research that has not explored native agent runtime control.

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An essential control of AI agents is their ability to manage runtime. This ability requires a sense of time-awareness, to predict and estimate wall-clock time and to control their own actions. Prior work has focused on time-awareness, but duration-following and control in native agent harnesses remain unexplored....

Effective runtime management is crucial for AI agents to perform tasks within specified time constraints, enhancing their reliability and autonomy. AgentTime provides a standardized way to measure and improve these capabilities.

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