Okay, this is winning big time for me right now. Surprised how good GPT-5.6 is at verifiying/advising and all high-level orchestrator capabilities. 💬 7 🔄 2 ❤️ 24 👀 2993 📊 10 ⚡
The reliability bottleneck for document-driven agents sits in the ingestion layer, not the reasoning model, so swapping Claude for GPT-5.6 will not fix it. Agent builders working on compliance or policy workflows can instrument conversion pipelines to preserve highlights and colour, and typing the cue explicitly adds a further +0.085 F1 over passive preservation. Since no mainstream converter or parsing benchmark currently scores colour fidelity, teams can gain an edge by auditing their own ingestion against OOXML properties.
The best single-game performer was not the most efficient learner, so one-shot benchmark scores can mislead when choosing an agent for long-horizon work. Teams building self-improving systems should track held-out learning curves against compute cost and verify that saved tools and notes are actually reused. The frozen-weights design makes the results directly relevant to anyone running agents under a fixed budget.