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# ThinkingBox

**What:** Runs agents against MCP tools and checks what they really did.

**Why:** Measures how close you are to the frontier.

**Category:** Evals & benchmarks · **Stack layer:** tools

## Status

Catalog entry. Existence and repo metadata checked 2026-10-16 via the GitHub API. Install commands below are auto-extracted from the README and have NOT been executed or verified. Read the README before running anything; prefer a sandbox or venv.

## Install (unverified)

1. [any] source: README (auto-extracted); status: unverified, not executed

```bash
pip install -U pip setuptools
```

2. [any] source: README (auto-extracted); status: unverified, not executed

```bash
pip install --config-settings editable-mode=compat -e '.[dev]'
```

## Verify

No verified check yet. Minimum: the install command exits 0 and the tool's own help/version flag runs (exact flag: see README).

## Rollback (unverified)

1. source: derived inverse of install command

```bash
pip uninstall -y pip
```

2. source: derived inverse of install command

```bash
pip uninstall -y editable-mode
```

## Links

- Repo: https://github.com/microsoft/thinkingbox
- README: https://github.com/microsoft/thinkingbox#readme
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZsayJf_I3I