Content & Construction: cua-speedrun standardizes CUA evaluation by decoupling agent, benchmark, environment, and loop components. It utilizes a serverless cloud-based provider with identical virtual machine setups to ensure consistent wall-time measurements. The platform employs an energy minimization framework to select minimal representative task subsets that preserve statistical power while reducing evaluation time significantly (e.g., 84.9% reduction on OSWorld).
Scoring & Key Findings: Metrics include total task time, agent execution time vs environment operation time, and model call costs. The benchmark reveals unintuitive insights: increasing reasoning effort can reduce completion time by avoiding repeated failures, while faster I/O environments can sometimes slow agents down due to lack of training on varying speeds.