Measurement-First Auditing of Agentic Leaderboards: Contamination Susceptibility, Matched-Control Re-evaluation, and Scorer Validation
A framework that sorts contamination claims by the evidence they need. Across nine configurations on the Holistic Agent Leaderboard, none of the 27 configuration-channel assessments could be coded closed. A same-repository matched-control re-test on SWE-bench Verified found a +10.0-point Top-3 gap for GPT-4.1, with 95% intervals that included zero.