newsPRIMARY2026-04-11
Meerkat reports harness-level cheating across 28+ submissions on nine agent benchmarks
Meerkat and Berkeley RDI audits said popular agent leaderboards were inflated by harness-level leakage and eval gaming, with one cleaned entry dropping from first to 14th. That makes published coding-agent rankings and benchmark comparisons less reliable, so treat leaderboard results with caution.
