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Hauptverfasser: Guo, Zikang, Xu, Benfeng, Zhu, Chiwei, Hong, Wentao, Wang, Xiaorui, Mao, Zhendong
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09734
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author Guo, Zikang
Xu, Benfeng
Zhu, Chiwei
Hong, Wentao
Wang, Xiaorui
Mao, Zhendong
author_facet Guo, Zikang
Xu, Benfeng
Zhu, Chiwei
Hong, Wentao
Wang, Xiaorui
Mao, Zhendong
contents The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly emerging as a pivotal open standard, designed to enhance agent-tool integration and interoperability, and is positioned to unlock a new era of powerful, interconnected, and genuinely utilitarian agentic AI. However, despite MCP's growing adoption, existing benchmarks often fail to capture real-world agent performance within this new paradigm, leading to a distorted perception of their true operational value and an inability to reliably differentiate proficiencies. To bridge this critical evaluation gap, we introduce MCP-AgentBench -- a comprehensive benchmark specifically engineered to rigorously assess language agent capabilities in MCP-mediated tool interactions. Core contributions of MCP-AgentBench include: the establishment of a robust MCP testbed comprising 33 operational servers with 188 distinct tools; the development of a benchmark featuring 600 systematically designed queries distributed across 6 distinct categories of varying interaction complexity; and the introduction of MCP-Eval, a novel outcome-oriented evaluation methodology prioritizing real-world task success. Through extensive empirical evaluation of leading language agents, we provide foundational insights. MCP-AgentBench aims to equip the research community with a standardized and reliable framework to build, validate, and advance agents capable of fully leveraging MCP's transformative benefits, thereby accelerating progress toward truly capable and interoperable AI systems.
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spellingShingle MCP-AgentBench: Evaluating Real-World Language Agent Performance with MCP-Mediated Tools
Guo, Zikang
Xu, Benfeng
Zhu, Chiwei
Hong, Wentao
Wang, Xiaorui
Mao, Zhendong
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly emerging as a pivotal open standard, designed to enhance agent-tool integration and interoperability, and is positioned to unlock a new era of powerful, interconnected, and genuinely utilitarian agentic AI. However, despite MCP's growing adoption, existing benchmarks often fail to capture real-world agent performance within this new paradigm, leading to a distorted perception of their true operational value and an inability to reliably differentiate proficiencies. To bridge this critical evaluation gap, we introduce MCP-AgentBench -- a comprehensive benchmark specifically engineered to rigorously assess language agent capabilities in MCP-mediated tool interactions. Core contributions of MCP-AgentBench include: the establishment of a robust MCP testbed comprising 33 operational servers with 188 distinct tools; the development of a benchmark featuring 600 systematically designed queries distributed across 6 distinct categories of varying interaction complexity; and the introduction of MCP-Eval, a novel outcome-oriented evaluation methodology prioritizing real-world task success. Through extensive empirical evaluation of leading language agents, we provide foundational insights. MCP-AgentBench aims to equip the research community with a standardized and reliable framework to build, validate, and advance agents capable of fully leveraging MCP's transformative benefits, thereby accelerating progress toward truly capable and interoperable AI systems.
title MCP-AgentBench: Evaluating Real-World Language Agent Performance with MCP-Mediated Tools
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09734