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arxivcs.SEcs.AI2026-07-15

Copy-on-Write Scoring: Application-Specific Agent Evaluations

Joanna Roy, Sven Hoelzel

Trustworthy deployment of LLM-based agents in software systems requires evaluating how they perform on application-specific workflows, with enough granularity to localize where they succeed and fail. Yet existing agent evaluation mechanisms are limited: benchmarks have low construct validity for application-specific workflows and environments, and replica evaluation environments are expensive and prone to drift. We propose Copy-on-Write (CoW) Scoring, a framework that evaluates agent operations directly within application environments using a PostgreSQL-level Copy-on-Write mechanism to isolate agent writes. CoW Scoring produces session- and operation-level scores that highlight where agents' database write operations succeed and fail in a given application environment, enabling inexpensive evaluation and iteration on agent harnesses and tool surfaces. We demonstrate the framework on Plane, an open-source project-management platform, where analysis surfaced specific issues in the tool surface, and corresponding fixes produced measurable improvements on affected models. Python library: https://github.com/trail-ml/agent-cow-python

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