Scientific Agents: Evaluating Profession-Specific System Prompts on Scientific Tasks

arXiv:2610.00084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detailed profession-specific system prompts raise token use and estimated cost per response without a consistent accuracy gain. We evaluate Scientific Agents, an open-source corpus of 503 profession-specific AGENTS.md profiles, with Gemini 3.8 Flash via OpenRouter in the Pi agent harness. We compare matched profiles with four controls: a minimal…