# rTaste: Do Research Agents Have Taste? Evaluating Early Stage Research Judgment

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40488
Published: 2026-10-29
Status: unreviewed source report

## Source excerpt (up to 25 words)

> Do research agents have taste, the judgment of which experiments are worth running before their outcomes are known? We give six frontier models seven recent

## Review question

Compare accepted end-to-end outcomes, tool permissions, intervention rate, recovery behavior and total cost on the same workload. A polished demo does not establish unattended reliability.

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