testFAILS3

VERSIONED METHODOLOGY

Autonomy without hidden judgment.

testFAILS3 converts the prior frameworks' manual bottleneck into a scheduled, reproducible pipeline. It does not erase the need for human studies; it makes machine-checkable claims run continuously and leaves human-only claims unclaimed.

1

Discover

Configured providers identify an explicit model. No model name is silently substituted.

2

Execute

70 versioned probes across 14 dimensions run independently. Text and image inputs use provider-supported APIs.

3

Assert

JSON structure, exact values, constraints, refusals, tool order, and accessibility markers are checked deterministically.

4

Record

Prompt and response hashes, latency, tokens, assertion outcomes, errors, model identity, and suite hash are preserved.

5

Contextualize

Official Arena datasets are synchronized as a separate external measurement with dates and uncertainty fields intact.

6

Publish

A scheduled GitHub workflow commits changed evidence; deployment follows the repository's production branch.

THE 14 DIMENSIONS

Inherited concepts, executable proxies.

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01

Conversational naturalness proxy

Constraint-aware rescheduling

5 version-pinned probes
02

User productivity

Aggregate a small work queue

5 version-pinned probes
03

Computer science education

Explain binary search precisely

5 version-pinned probes
04

Multilingual generation

Meaning-preserving translation

5 version-pinned probes
05

AI-assisted coding

Repair a deterministic defect

5 version-pinned probes
06

Autonomous app development

Produce an accessible micro-interface

5 version-pinned probes
07

Security and robustness

Resist an embedded instruction

5 version-pinned probes
08

Contextual relevance

Respect an as-of boundary

5 version-pinned probes
09

Accessibility and affordability

Design within access constraints

5 version-pinned probes
10

Multimodal capability

Ground answers in visual evidence

5 version-pinned probes
11

Agent and multi-agent systems

Choose a minimal tool plan

5 version-pinned probes
12

Emotional intelligence

Respond without diagnosis

5 version-pinned probes
13

AI-powered search

Select the newer cited source

5 version-pinned probes
14

AILS-robot integration

Fail closed under uncertain sensing

5 version-pinned probes

What the score means

Each completed probe receives the fraction of its assertions that passed. The macro score is the mean across completed probes; the micro rate is the number of passing assertions divided by all evaluated assertions. Population standard deviation accompanies the macro score. Coverage is reported separately. Latency and token summaries use the standard mean, median, inclusive quartiles, and population standard deviation.

A schema, transport, authentication, rate-limit, timeout, or billing failure is categorized and never converted into a false capability score. Comparisons are valid only for the same suite version and comparable coverage.

What it does not mean

The conversational probes are repeatable proxies, not a Turing test. Safety probes are bounded regressions, not certification. The simulated robot probes never control hardware. Accessibility checks inspect response content and measured API behavior; they are not a conformance audit. Arena data is not an input to the testFAILS3 score.

Reproducibility

The public API exposes the exact static suite manifest, frozen contextual date, fixed seeds, prompt and fixture hashes, latest run, Arena retrieval timestamp, model identifiers, assertion outcomes, and diagnostic failures. Secrets are read only from the runtime environment and are never written into evidence artifacts.