Evianis/travel-photo-abstraction: does the agent reach for it? 2026-10-11
Twelve Codex skills were installed together and each agent was sent three requests meant for this skill (travel-photo-abstraction), in a throwaway sandbox. A run stopped as soon as a skill was opened.
Then the same requests with 100 and 500 other real skills installed beside the twelve. Codex ran gpt-6-astra, Claude Code ran Claude Opus 5.5.
All levels · The requests · How a run is scored
| Request | Codex, 0 others | Codex, 100 others | Codex, 500 others | Claude Code, 0 others | Claude Code, 100 others | Claude Code, 500 others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| asked plainly Analyze the uploaded photograph, preserve it exactly unchanged in the upper panel, and reconstruct its essential visual relationships as a new nonliteral abstraction in a clean lower panel, guided by the 19 provided reference images. Add a number, date, and short phrase to the lower panel. | opened it 15s | opened it 7s | no skill opened finished | opened it 3s | opened it 2s | opened it 4s |
| described without the skill's words Create a clean two-part editorial image: leave my uploaded travel photo untouched at the top, then make a nonliteral composition below that distills its key colors, forms, textures, and spatial relationships rather than redrawing the scene. Use the 19 supplied visual references as guidance, and include a number, date, and short phrase in the bottom section. | opened it 7s | opened it 8s | no skill opened time limit | opened it 3s | opened it 2s | opened it 3s |
| in the other language 请分析我上传的照片，将照片原样完整保留在上方，并参考提供的 19 张图像，在下方重构其核心视觉关系，创作一个全新的非具象抽象构图。请在下方区域加入一个数字、日期和简短短语。 | opened it 10s | opened it 7s | no skill opened finished | opened it 3s | opened it 3s | opened it 3s |