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Microsoft and Hugging Face release ThinkingBox agent evaluation framework
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Microsoft's Copilot Studio team and Hugging Face have jointly released ThinkingBox. The framework runs agents through isolated MCP tool sessions, then performs executable checks on the resulting backend state and side effects, rather than only looking at answer text or whether tool calls were valid.
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The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
Microsoft ThinkingBox grades AI agents on the records they leave behind, not the sentences they generate, and then asks whether they can do it twenty times in a row. It is now available through Hugging Face.