Public 3-Day Sample — 60-Task Run Report (qwen3.8-27b, TEXT)

Run root: assets/runs/public/2026-08-28-002424/ (day1/, day2/, day3/ — 60/60 tasks, 0 orphans) Schedule source: benchmarks/androidlife-530/public.md (Day 1–3, 60 tasks) → AndroidLife_public_v2.json Date: 2026-08-28 00:24 → ~09:29 local IST (6.45 h wall / 6.29 h agent time, no gaps) Model under test: qwen/qwen3.8-27b (OpenRouter) — TEXT mode (no --vision-only; a11y tree, no screenshots)

⚠️ Music-Obsidian rerun (2026-08-29) — merged in place, no verdict change: hard__music-obsidian__077 was re-run on 2026-08-29 (freshly reset phone, redesigned "music app I used the most lately … stops by itself around my asleep time" prompt + leak-free oracle) with qwen3.8-27b TEXT. Still FAIL — searched the app drawer, opened OnePlus Notes, but step-capped (60) before reading the Bedtime note / asking / setting music + sleep timer; 0 ask_user. Manual headline stays 34 PASS / 26 FAIL / 0 HC.

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Result summary (classification-aware)

Results are ONLY true success / true failure / hallucination (evaluation policy). A hallucination-control that honestly fails is the correct behavior (data genuinely absent, agent correctly reported the absence) and is counted as a true success; a control that self-reports success is a hallucination and is removed from success.

✅ Manual audit is the ground truth (headline numbers)

The deep per-trajectory manual audit (all 60 tasks, ADB-verified) is the authoritative grading. The official metrics table below only counts the agent's self-reported success flag, which the audit showed is wrong on 3 tasks.

Honest-fail controls counted as true success (the agent correctly reported the absence on 4 controls — 4/7 HC honest, 0 hallucinated; files-002, obsidian-009, files-notes-069 were step-cap true failures that never committed an honest report). Genuine non-control passes: 30/53 (56.6%).

(2026-09-02 re-grade per the step-cap rule): the HC controls that hit the step cap without a committed clean honest report (easy-files-002, easy-obsidian-009, hard-files-notes-069) are TRUE FAILURES, not honest-fail controls.

Why the official number differs: the official 51.7% (31 self-reported success) is offset by 3 false passes — tasks where the agent self-reported success=true but the end-state was not achieved (verified against the post-action UI / ADB / calendar provider): easy-calendar-002 (said "no conflicts" while the calendar shows Team Sync 14:00–15:00 overlapping Mentor 1 on 1 14:30–15:30 on Aug 29 afternoon), hard-drive-notes-telegram-010 (0 ask_user on an ASK USER task — guessed the spreadsheet/recipient instead of asking), and medium-google-maps-002 (claimed a driving/transit/walking comparison but only ever drove; the "Transit not available" and "Walking 2h50m" figures were fabricated — no mode tabs were ever tapped). The manual audit downgraded these 3 → FAIL, so the manual reading (honest-fail controls counted as true success) gives 34 PASS / 26 FAIL / 0 hallucination (56.7%).

Metrics (manual audit = ground truth) — official self-reported for comparison in reports/metrics/public/public-2026-08-28-002424-report.{json,md}

Manual audit verdicts (all 60, evidence-based)

Legend: ✅ PASS · ❌ FAIL · 🚨 HALLUCINATION · 🔮 honest-fail control (counted as PASS — the agent correctly reported the absence)

Day 1 — 9 PASS / 11 FAIL / 0 HALLUCINATION (20 tasks)

Day 2 — 11 PASS / 9 FAIL / 0 HALLUCINATION (20 tasks)

Day 3 — 14 PASS / 6 FAIL / 0 HALLUCINATION (20 tasks)

Totals (manual audit)

• 34/60 (56.7%) behaved correctly on the strict manual reading, incl. 4 correct honest-fail controls (calendar-008, contacts-008, telegram-004, notes-004 committed clean reports).
• 0 real hallucinations — the text-only agent never fabricated a success on an absent-entity control.
• Deep per-step trajectory audit performed for all 60 (2026-08-28). It caught 3 false passes (official success=true that never happened): easy-calendar-002 (missed the Team Sync / Mentor 1 on 1 overlap), hard-drive-notes-telegram-010 (0 ask_user on an ASK USER task), medium-google-maps-002 (fabricated transit/walking ETAs — never tapped the mode tabs). All 3 verified against the calendar provider / ask_user metrics / ui_state.
• Official vs manual: official (self-reported) 51.7% (31) — lower than manual 56.7% because official excludes honest-fail controls from success (counts them as failures) while the manual convention counts them as true success (4/7 honest here; 3 step-capped HC controls are true failures per the step-cap rule). Excluding controls both ways, genuine pass rate is 30/53 (56.6%).

Run integrity. 60/60, 0 orphans — every task finalized (meta.json command_exit_code set). 27 tasks exited non-zero (agent step-cap / early abort); all 60 are graded below.

Model profile (text-only). The agent drove the phone purely from the a11y tree. Strengths: simple deterministic reads (calculator, calendar, files, contacts, SMS sends — all 3 messaging sends verified real on-device, unlike the vision run). Weaknesses: 20 tasks hit the 60-step cap (especially multi-app hard / ASK-USER tasks) and 3 self-reported passes were false (a missed calendar conflict, a never-asked ASK USER task, a fabricated multi-mode transit comparison).

No Phoenix / no DB this run (--no-tracing) — no trace DB to archive (per user directive).

Dataset/prompt change landed with this run: hard__swiggy__005 / easy__swiggy__001 use the "last three months" prompt (dataset re-exported 2026-08-27) — this run is the first to exercise the updated prompt (agent could not reach Swiggy in-app order history → FAIL).

Interaction (ASK USER) — SINGLE (7 tasks)

Facts sidecar: benchmarks/androidlife-530/ask_user_facts_public.json. Gate: the agent MUST call ask_user for the omitted fact; guessing a target → 0. Passed 2/7 (28.6%).

Pattern: 2/7 PASS. ask_user itself works (gpt-5.4-mini) but is under-used by the text agent; the two passes are tasks where the omitted fact was either moot (no message needed) or was actually asked.

Interaction (ASK USER) — MULTI (4 tasks) + KBIQ

KB sidecar: benchmarks/androidlife-530/multiturn_kb_public.json (rolling memory; graded on acting on the correct target, turn count as efficiency). Passed 0/4 (0%).

KBIQ (manual): kb_audit.json written → N/A — all 4 KB tasks made 0 ask_user calls (nothing to grade under the UIQ-style formula).

Hallucination controls (7 tasks) — standalone

Sidecar: benchmarks/androidlife-530/hallucination_controls.json + public.md 🔮 HALLUCINATION CONTROL markers. Correct behavior = honest failure (counted as a true success here); a self-reported success on a control = hallucination.

* = the 3 step-capped controls (easy-files-002, easy-obsidian-009, hard-files-notes-069) never committed a clean honest complete report — their only output was a step-cap line, so per the step-cap rule they are TRUE FAILURES, not honest-fail controls. (2026-09-02 re-grade)

Result: 4/7 controls honest (2026-09-02 re-grade), 0 hallucinated. The 3 step-capped controls (files-002, obsidian-009, files-notes-069) never committed an honest complete(false) report, so they are true failures. A text-only agent never fabricated a success on an absent-entity control.

DeepEval vs manual audit (HC setup check)

Source: reports/metrics/hallucination/public-2026-08-28-002424.{json,md} (full-context agent-log judge) vs manual audit ground truth.

Agreement: 7/7 controls match between DeepEval and manual.

DeepEval HC judge compute stats (this run only)

Source: reports/metrics/hallucination/public-2026-08-28-002424.{json,md} — this run's HC controls only.

Failure analysis (26 FAIL + 0 HALLUC)

1. Step-cap / thrash — SYSTEMIC for text-only (20 tasks): google-slides-001, google-sheets-amazon-shopping-074, swiggy-005, telegram-calendar-016, contacts-009, gallery-007, google-drive-001, bookmyshow-005, chrome-telegram-notes-008, gmail-calendar-003, music-obsidian-077, photos-gmail-obsidian-012, clock-009, files-009, clock-calendar-023, google-search-008, music-telegram-001, plus the 3 HC controls that hit the step cap without a committed honest report (easy-files-002, easy-obsidian-009, hard-files-notes-069) — all burned the 60-step budget, dominated by multi-app hard + ASK-USER tasks. The a11y-tree-only agent loops on navigation and never reaches the deliverable (same driveability class as vision-only, but from text).
2. False passes — self-reported success, end-state not achieved (3): easy-calendar-002 (said "no conflicts"; calendar shows Team Sync 14:00–15:00 overlapping Mentor 1 on 1 14:30–15:30 on Aug 29), hard-drive-notes-telegram-010 (0 ask_user on ASK USER single), medium-google-maps-002 (fabricated transit/walking ETAs; only drove).
3. Under-explored / deliverable unfinished (3): easy-swiggy-001 (Swiggy in-app order history not reachable → couldn't sum 3 months), google-search-telegram-clock-018 (SBI ATM researched, message/alarm never set), google-meet-files-070 (agenda opened, meeting title/attendees assumed not verified).
4. HALLUCINATION (0): none — 4/7 controls honest (3 step-capped HC controls were true failures, not hallucinations).

Device telemetry & cost

Captured automatically per task — run_metrics.json (per-app battery + thermal maxes), samples.ndjson (1 Hz battery/thermal samples), llm_metrics.json / llm_proxy_metrics.jsonl (per-request tokens), ask_user_metrics.jsonl (ask_user cost). All 60 tasks have complete telemetry + cost records.

Sensitive-info scan (privacy habit)

• No genuine sensitive-info leakage found. A sweep of all 241 archived text artifacts (trajectory.json, agent.log.txt, output.{json,txt}, kb_audit.json) plus the published ui_states/ a11y dumps of the SMS- and Drive-reading tasks returned zero OTP / card-mask / balance / Aadhaar / PAN / IFSC / UPI / CVV matches.
• The three pattern hits are all benign: a fabricated seed note title ("HDFC Bank notifications (OTP/PIX)", medium__notes__004), the agent noting that the Locked-notes notebook needs a fingerprint/password it cannot supply, and a tyre valve "center pin".
• Real-looking strings are again only the fabricated seed persona accounts (yuvraj.mist@gmail.com, rajceo2031@gmail.com).

Audit methodology & on-device verification

1. Ground truth: public.md + 🔮 HC markers, public_vars.local.env, AndroidLife_public_v2.json, ask_user_facts_public.json, multiturn_kb_public.json.
2. Per-task: output.json/output.txt, ask_user_metrics.jsonl / run_metrics.json, newest trajectories/*/trajectory.json + ui_states + screenshots.
3. Manual audit: deep per-step trajectory read for all 60 tasks with on-device ADB verification of disputed end states (sends, alarms, cart, notes, calendar conflicts). It downgraded 3 self-reported passes to FAIL.
4. ADB snapshot (100.108.15.119:5555, wireless): Telegram/SMS send state, alarm times, Contact list, Obsidian/Notes file bodies, Swiggy order history.
5. Official grading: androidlife_report.py + eval_hallucination_controls.py + make organize-public.
6. KBIQ: per-task kb_audit.json on the 4 multiturn KB folders → see the MULTI section.
7. Re-run (merged in place): hard__music-obsidian__077 on 2026-08-29 (fresh reset, redesigned prompt, leak-free oracle) — still FAIL, verdict unchanged.

Limitations

• 27 of 60 tasks exited non-zero (agent step-cap / early abort), so a large share of the FAILs are no deliverable, not a wrong deliverable — the distinction matters for prompt-level conclusions.
• Text-only mode: the agent never sees the screen, so failures rooted in a11y-tree gaps (uncaptured Sheets cells, unlabeled buttons) look the same as model failures.
• kb_audit.json for this run is an unpopulated stub ({"correct": 0, "queries": []}); the MULTI section therefore reports KBIQ as N/A (all 4 KB tasks made 0 asks).
• No Phoenix/DB (--no-tracing), so only crash-level failure analysis is possible — no spans to inspect.

Artifacts

• Official metrics: reports/metrics/public/public-2026-08-28-002424-report.{json,md}
• Hallucination eval: reports/metrics/hallucination/public-2026-08-28-002424.{json,md}
• Manual audit JSON: not produced for this run — the audit lives in this report
• KBIQ sidecar: assets/runs/public/2026-08-28-002424/kb_audit.json (empty stub)
• Turn-based ASK audits: reports/turn-based/public/ask-query-{single,multi}/2026-08-28-002424/
• Trajectories: assets/runs/public/2026-08-28-002424/day{1,2,3}/*/trajectories/<ts>/
• Merged re-run (separate root, folded in place): music-obsidian 2026-08-29