Agentsh – A Decentralized, Scalable Multiagent Harness
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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked
Microsoft open-sourced Agensh, a decentralized multi-agent harness that scales to 1,024 agents without a central orchestrator, coordinating work through Gitea, Mattermost, and shared context. On ProgramBench's five hardest tasks, mean test-pass rate rose from 19.31% with one agent to 28.78% with 128 agents, per the authors' preprint.
Why it ranked
No. 70 of 93 with a score of 0.57. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.94) and substantiated (0.77), lowest on audience breadth (0.51). The judges disagreed most on substantiated (spread 0.52), so the story is marked contested.
Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.
Score
0.57total under rubric v2.2Contestedjudges differ by 0.43 on significance, 0.52 on substantiated
- Significance0.57
- Reader interest0.65
- Audience breadth0.51
- Practical relevance0.63
- Substantiated0.77
- Technical depth0.70
- New information0.94
- Counts against: Promotional0.12
- Counts against: Overclaim0.34
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Significance | 0.58 | 0.35 | 0.78 | 0.57 | 0.43 , above the contested threshold | +0.24 | +0.137 |
| Reader interest | 0.56 | 0.50 | 0.90 | 0.65 | 0.40 | +0.26 | +0.170 |
| Audience breadth | 0.41 | 0.40 | 0.72 | 0.51 | 0.32 | +0.13 | +0.066 |
| Practical relevance | 0.65 | 0.45 | 0.78 | 0.63 | 0.33 | +0.22 | +0.138 |
| Substantiated | 0.97 | 0.45 | 0.88 | 0.77 | 0.52 , above the contested threshold | +0.05 | +0.038 |
| Technical depth | 0.73 | 0.55 | 0.82 | 0.70 | 0.27 | +0.05 | +0.035 |
| New information | 0.96 | 0.90 | 0.97 | 0.94 | 0.07 | +0.05 | +0.047 |
| Promotional | 0.09 | 0.20 | 0.08 | 0.12 | 0.12 | −0.19 | −0.023 |
| Overclaim | 0.25 | 0.45 | 0.32 | 0.34 | 0.20 | −0.11 | −0.037 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.571 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.571 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.
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Elsewhere: HN 6 pts, front page
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