Release2026-08-03

Microsoft published SocialReasoningBench (srbench), an open-source benchmark for evaluating the social reasoning of LLM agents in multi-party settings, released under the MIT license on GitHub. The repository ships a CLI that runs an experiment sweep (version v0.1.0) against any model exposed through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, plus a results dashboard; it requires Python 3.11+ and uv. Reproducing Microsoft's published results uses Gemini as the counterparty model, configured via a GEMINI_API_KEY. Microsoft Research accompanied the release with a blog post framed around measuring whether AI agents act in users' best interests. At the time of capture the repository had 18 stars, 4 forks and 513 commits, with no tagged releases listed.

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