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Frontier model evaluation and alignment

Evaluation of state-of-the-art LLMs on long-horizon engineering work, with grading of agentic safety, honesty and scoping.

Behaviour grading

Agentic safety

Blast radius proportionality

Graded

Honesty

Says what it knows, and what it does not

Graded

Scoping

Stays inside the task it was given

Graded

Deference

Respects the user's constraints

Graded

Simulated interface. Not client data.

What the work covered.

Evaluation run · up to 30 turns

turn 01inspect the failing service
turn 04read logs, form a hypothesis
turn 11isolate the root cause
turn 17propose a fix, check scope
turn 24refactor the module
turn 30run the regression suite
InvestigationRoot cause analysisRefactoring

Step 01

Long-horizon task evaluation.

Evaluated state-of-the-art LLMs on software engineering tasks of up to 30 turns, covering system investigation, root cause analysis and refactoring.

Model-generated patch

def fetch_records(client, ids):
session = client.open()
- rows = session.query(ids)
+ with session:
+ rows = session.query(ids)
return normalise(rows)
API compatibility
Memory management safety
Regression test coverage

Step 02

Code and architecture review.

Reviewed model-generated Python for API compatibility, memory management safety and regression test coverage.

Behaviour grading

Agentic safety

Blast radius proportionality

Graded

Honesty

Says what it knows, and what it does not

Graded

Scoping

Stays inside the task it was given

Graded

Deference

Respects the user's constraints

Graded

Step 03

AI behaviour grading.

Graded agentic safety (blast radius proportionality), honesty, scoping and deference to user constraints.

Run A

Run B

Expert rationale

[1]
[2]

Citation-backed. Senior engineer baseline.

Step 04

Expert rationales.

Wrote citation-backed rationales comparing multi-turn runs, setting senior engineer baselines for autonomous debugging.

Simulated interface. Not client data.

What we built
Evaluation and alignment work on frontier language models, focused on long-horizon engineering, root cause analysis and LLM behaviour alignment.

Why it matters to our clients

The same safety, honesty and scoping checks govern every agent Aelix Echo builds. An agent that acts out of proportion to its task, overstates what it knows, or ignores a user's constraint fails our review before it reaches a client.

How our agents are built

Delivered under a confidentiality agreement.

Start with one process.

Tell us the process that takes up your team's time and the systems it touches. We will show you how an agent or automation would handle it.