AGI Index dimension · weight 9%
Planning
Goal decomposition and recovery when a plan fails.
Constructing a sequence of actions toward a goal, monitoring progress, and revising the plan when the world does not cooperate. Distinguished from reasoning by the presence of an environment that pushes back.
The argument
Evidence and counter-evidence
Both sides are published at equal weight. A framework that only records what raises a score is not measuring anything.
Raises the score
- Multi-hour software and research tasks are completed end to end at rates that were near zero two years ago.
- Replanning after a failed step is now common rather than exceptional, and systems increasingly detect failure without being told.
Holds it down
- Success rate falls off steeply with task horizon; the curve is improving but its shape has not changed.
- Systems rarely abandon a doomed strategy early — they persist, which is expensive and occasionally destructive.
- Plans degrade badly under partial observability, where the cost of an unrecoverable action is highest.
What the score reads from
Long-horizon task completion
Recovery from injected failure
Related coverage
Everything bearing on planning
News
Research
Context
Where this sits against the rest
- Multimodality82
- Coding81
- Tool use76
- Reasoning74
- Memory67
- Generalization66
- Learning59
- Autonomy53
- Social intelligence52
- Scientific discovery48
- Embodiment41
How these scores are producedMethodology v1.2