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Introducing mouse-1

A general-purpose decision model built for agent harnesses.

Today we’re introducing mouse-1, a general purpose decision model specifically built for AI harnesses.

It integrates into your existing harness through a single API and returns decisions in about 100 milliseconds of model time. It’s designed to help agents complete more work independently, with fewer errors and unnecessary interruptions.

Mouse-1 · ~100ms Decide Main model Plan & write code Harness Route, gate, verify Tools Shell, edit, MCP Propose Execute Results

On average mouse-1 is 12× faster than GPT-6 Sol.

12×
faster than
GPT-6 Sol

We evaluated mouse-1 on unfamiliar tools and repositories to measure how well it generalizes beyond its training data. It achieved 89.1% average decision accuracy, compared with 85.8% for d3 and 81.4% for d3-flash.

Average decision accuracy

Unfamiliar tools and repositories (%) · Higher is better

Average decision accuracy, Unfamiliar tools and repositories (%)
mouse-189.1%
d385.8%
d3-flash81.4%
Agent Tool & Security Suite

Average of BFCL, API-Bank, When2Call and PhishNChips (%) — distinct from the 37-task HF Decision Index · Higher is better

Agent Tool & Security Suite, Average of BFCL, API-Bank, When2Call and PhishNChips (%) — distinct from the 37-task HF Decision Index
d386.0%
clef85.6%
mouse-184.9%
JEV-27B79.8%
BFCL

Tool selection (%) · Higher is better

BFCL, Tool selection (%)
clef98.5%
mouse-197.6%
d397.3%
JEV-27B96.0%
API-Bank

Tool selection (%) · Higher is better

API-Bank, Tool selection (%)
clef91.9%
d386.4%
mouse-183.7%
JEV-27B82.9%
When2Call

When to call a tool (%) · Higher is better

When2Call, When to call a tool (%)
d386.4%
mouse-185.8%
JEV-27B78.5%
clef72.5%
PhishNChips

Phishing decisions (%) · Higher is better

PhishNChips, Phishing decisions (%)
clef79.4%
d373.9%
mouse-172.3%
JEV-27B61.9%

Prompt Injection

We hardened mouse-1's resistance to prompt injection, which was a common early complaint from the initial Jev model results. We tested this in an evaluation using planted instructions, which resulted in 0 change of mouse-1 decisions, meaning it performs significantly better at squashing these types of attacks.

Decision flip rate

Decisions changed by a planted instruction (%) · Lower is better

Decision flip rate, Decisions changed by a planted instruction (%)
mouse-10%
d3-flash27.6%
d340.4%

Built for improving agent harness cost and speed.

Agents make many decisions as they operate from tool calls to verification. These decisions compound over time and are becoming more important as agents now work for hours and even days at a time.

We built mouse-1 to support these choices through a common interface. The harness supplies the task context and candidate options and our model returns a probability for each option. Developers can decide how those scores affect the execution and even delegate to which decisions require human review.

We’ve found that adding mouse-1 to our own coding agent harness significantly improves its latency.

The model is available as an API. Get a key and send a state plus the options you want scored. $5 in credits, no card.