# New Evaluation Infrastructure Targets the Cost of Actually Running Agentic Benchmarks

Harbor Adapters offers a unified harness across agentic benchmarks and ships with Harbor-Index, a curated meta-dataset, addressing the environment and integration overhead that keeps most agent evaluations from being reproduced.

- Published: 2026-09-07T06:22:00.097Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-07/new-evaluation-infrastructure-targets-the-cost-of-actually-r
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [arXiv cs.AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04298), [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/frontier-red-team)

A preprint posted to arXiv introduces Harbor Adapters, a unified evaluation infrastructure for agentic benchmarks, together with Harbor-Index, a curated meta-dataset assembled across them. The problem motivating it is mundane and expensive:…

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