Benchmarks

GitHub stars broke as a credibility signal because clicks cost nothing to fake. Frontier labs replaced them with benchmark scores. But benchmarks are already being gamed. The market is climbing from stars to benchmarks to verified outputs — each rung costs more to fabricate than the last.

23 scenarios, 4 frameworks, 460 runs. HydraBench tests what most agent benchmarks ignore: does your infrastructure survive crashes, contain secrets, deliver handoffs, enforce permissions, and control cost?