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Tripo's commercial models, Rodin and Scenario don't appear. TripoSR (#20) is an open-source research model, not the Tripo product we rank. The evidence supports Meshy's output quality in absolute terms but gives no head-to-head against our other ranked tools, so ranks are unchanged.", "affects_rank": false, "sources": [ "https://huggingface.co/spaces/3d-arena/3d-arena", "https://3d-arena-3d-arena.hf.space/api/leaderboard?vote_type=render" ], "url": "https://loadout-weld.vercel.app/methodology/tests/t-2026-10-19-3d-evidence/" }, { "id": "t-2026-10-19-3d-harness", "kind": "harness-validation", "label": "Harness validation: GLB inspector v0.1 (not a tool test)", "date": "2026-10-19", "use_case": "game-dev-3d-and-art-assets", "tools": [], "summary": "Built the objective-check half of the Game 3D protocol: a script that loads a GLB and reports triangles, vertices, UV presence, materials, texture maps and resolutions, watertightness, non-manifold edge share, bounding box, skins and animations. Validated it on two Khronos glTF sample assets with known properties (DamagedHelmet: 15,452 tris, 5 PBR maps at 2048²; Fox: 576 tris, 1 skin, 3 animations). No vendor output was tested: Meshy, Tripo, Rodin and Scenario all need an account to generate, and none documents a public test key, so hands-on generation wasn't possible from this box.", "affects_rank": false, "sources": [ "https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Assets" ], "url": "https://loadout-weld.vercel.app/methodology/tests/t-2026-10-19-3d-harness/" }, { "id": "t-2026-10-19-coding-cli-smoke", "kind": "hands-on", "label": "Hands-on smoke test (install + headless flags, no credentials)", "date": "2026-10-19", "use_case": "ai-coding-agents", "tools": [ "claude-code", "openai-codex", "github-copilot", "cline", "openhands" ], "summary": "Installed each CLI from its public package registry on a clean Linux box (no accounts, no API keys), ran --version and --help, and tried one non-interactive prompt. All five installed and exposed a documented headless/non-interactive mode. Every prompt stopped at authentication, as expected, so nothing about output quality was measured.", "affects_rank": false, "sources": [], "url": "https://loadout-weld.vercel.app/methodology/tests/t-2026-10-19-coding-cli-smoke/" }, { "id": "t-2026-10-19-coding-evidence", "kind": "evidence-review", "label": "Evidence-based evaluation (not tested by Loadout): Terminal-Bench 4.0", "date": "2026-10-19", "use_case": "ai-coding-agents", "tools": [ "claude-code", "openai-codex" ], "summary": "The public Terminal-Bench 4.0 leaderboard (35 entries, fetched 2026-10-19) lists only two of our seven ranked coding agents: Claude Code and Codex. Best Claude Code entry: 64.85% ± 3.11 (Opus 5.5, max effort, 2026-09-22). Best Codex entry: 58.18% ± 2.79 (GPT-6 Astra, max) and 58.18% ± 3.11 (GPT-6.1 Sol, max). The 95% intervals do not overlap (61.74 vs 61.29), so the evidence is consistent with the editorial order (#1 Claude Code, #2 Codex). Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Devin, Cline and OpenHands have no entries, so there is no benchmark evidence for them either way.", "affects_rank": false, "sources": [ "https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0" ], "url": "https://loadout-weld.vercel.app/methodology/tests/t-2026-10-19-coding-evidence/" } ], "movers": [ { "week_of": "2026-10-19", "methodology_version": "0.2", "changes": [], "notes": [ "Baseline week. The seed order published 2026-10-19 (methodology v0.1) is the starting point, so there is no earlier week to move from.", "Agent-Ready scores (0–10) were added for all 53 tools from a public-docs review. They feed criterion A but don't change any rank: ranks stay editorial until full tests run.", "Evidence reviews for AI Coding Agents (Terminal-Bench 4.0) and Game Dev 3D (3D Arena) are consistent with the current #1/#2 order or don't cover the tools, so no rank changed (the hysteresis rule needs a ≥2-point scored lead before a swap).", "Methodology moved to v0.2: Agent-Ready evidence rules and the test-label taxonomy were added. Weights are unchanged.", "2026-10-20 weekly check: no rank moved. 16 new sourced releases (Oct 13-20) were added to New releases; none is a test result. 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