A deterministic retrieval layer takes viral accuracy from 17% to over 90%

Claim

Anthropic researchers showed that bolting a deterministic retrieval layer onto their research agents raised viral-sequence accuracy from 17% to over 90% while nearly erasing run-to-run variance, evidence that making biology agent-legible immediately turns it into automatable terrain.

Reported metric: 17% to 90%+

Reporting date: 2026-06-09 (not necessarily the event date)

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