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Google DeepMind Releases ProtocolGym: A Benchmark for Evaluating AI Agents in Real-World Environments

Google just dropped ProtocolGym, a benchmark suite for testing AI agent interactions with APIs, websites, and file systems. This is a massive signal that the industry is moving past simple benchmarks and towards standardized evaluation of real-world agent capabilities. If you're building agents, this is the new yardstick to measure against.