Content & Construction: SELF-POT is an evaluation framework featuring a sealed four-domain test set (mathematics, competitive programming, AppWorld, Terminal-Bench) containing 350 tasks. It uses five low-cost reasoning models compared against a stronger anchor model (Claude Opus 5.5), employing frozen protocols that charge every API call including selection and critique.
Scoring & Findings: The benchmark measures test-time potential by tracking correctness transitions under revision and protocol completion alongside task success. Key findings indicate that failure handling significantly impacts gains, public evidence can improve submission rates while lowering costs in programming tasks, and agent workflows primarily measure interface reliability due to stage failures.