
Agent Seer automatically synthesizes test scenarios for tool-using AI agents from MCP specs. It avoids manual curation and live tool execution.
The pipeline achieves strong quality across domains, with complete coverage on smaller specs.
Parameter complexity drives quality variance, and argument accuracy is the main error.
What happened
Researchers introduced Agent Seer, a pipeline that automatically creates realistic test scenarios for AI agents that use external tools. It works from a single Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification, requiring no examples, no live tool access, and no domain-specific tuning.
Why it matters
Hand-crafting scenarios is expensive and doesn't scale across tool ecosystems. Agent Seer generates graded scenarios with synthetic tool outputs and multi-turn dialogues, achieving strong quality on seven MCP specifications spanning diverse domains and tool-suite sizes, with complete tool coverage on small and medium specs.
What to watch
Parameter schema complexity is the strongest correlate of quality variation, while argument value accuracy is the dominant failure mode among imperfect scenarios. This suggests that future improvements should focus on the accuracy of argument values in tests.
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Evaluating AI agents that call external tools typically requires hand-crafted test scenarios, which are costly to build and become outdated as APIs evolve. Agent Seer addresses this by generating scenarios directly from MCP specifications, which already encode enough semantic detail to produce realistic tests. The pipeline enriches raw schemas, generates graded scenarios with synthetic outputs, and expands them into multi-turn dialogues, all without live tool execution or domain-specific tuning.
The method was tested on seven MCP specifications covering diverse domains and tool-suite sizes. It achieved strong quality across all domains and complete tool coverage on smaller specifications. Two insights stand out: parameter schema complexity is the strongest predictor of quality variation, while tool-suite size plays a minor orthogonal role. Additionally, argument value accuracy is the most common error in imperfect scenarios, a nuance that coarse name-match metrics miss.
These findings suggest that future benchmarks should pay closer attention to parameter complexity and the accuracy of argument values, which are often overlooked. Agent Seer was accepted at the Fifth Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics at ACL 2026, signaling academic interest in scalable scenario generation for tool-using agents.
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