Agent tooling and evaluation guide · Hugging Face · Intermediate
You want a measured guide to agent-friendly CLI design, including structured output, retry-safe commands, independent grading, and benchmarks showing where higher-level tools reduce calls and token use.
hugging face, coding agents, hf cli, evals, codex
Model analysis · Simon Willison · Intermediate to advanced
You want a concise independent read of GPT-6 Astra's launch claims, benchmark caveats, long-context results, pricing, and early comparison with Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-5.6 Sol.
gpt-6 astra, model selection, benchmarks, coding agents, long context
Model selection guide · OpenRouter · Intermediate
You want a practical six-step workflow for shortlisting models from live data, testing them on your own prompts, measuring cost per completed task, and choosing or routing from inside a coding assistant.
openrouter, model selection, evals, benchmarks, cost
GitHub repo · Perplexity · Intermediate
You want Perplexity's open evaluation suites for benchmarking grounded search quality and comparing search API behavior against other retrieval stacks.
perplexity, search evals, benchmarks, grounded answers, evaluation
API reference · OpenRouter · Intermediate
You want machine-readable benchmark data for coding, intelligence, or agentic tasks before choosing or routing across model families.
openrouter, benchmarks, model selection, coding, agentic tasks
Data API · OpenRouter · Intermediate
You want current usage and rankings data that reflects what developers are actually using, not only benchmark scores or launch-day marketing.
openrouter, rankings, usage data, benchmarks, model selection
Live model rankings · OpenRouter · Beginner to intermediate
You want a current usage-and-benchmark signal for routed models before deciding which providers and families deserve a real evaluation run.
openrouter, rankings, model selection, market signals, benchmarks