# Evaluating a Frontier Agent with EBench: From Direct Control to Harness with Policy

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-10-27T04:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/kuqbx3au01hgk5vrbak0fguia
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.35832

## Summary

This report evaluates GPT-6-Astra as a robot agent on EBench, using the same visual and proprioceptive observation protocol as post-trained policies, and compares two configurations: direct control and harness with policy.