Can Image Agents Complete Visual Commissions? A Benchmark and Modular Framework

Tong Li, Lishuai Gao, Qi Zeng, Yifan Li, Cong Wei +2

Visual commissions require image agents to integrate heterogeneous source materials, preserve requirements across dependent stages, and produce coordinated deliverables. Existing evaluations examine specific capabilities and execution settings, leaving end-to-end commission completion less understood. We introduce Visual Commission Bench (VCB), comprising 600 tasks across 12 categories and three complementary tiers, from capability-focused tasks to complete commissions. VCB uses 5,039 requirement checks and separate visual quality ratings to assess content correctness, visual realization, constraint preservation, and delivery completeness without prescribing an internal workflow. We present V-Protocol, a reference agent that dynamically composes reusable task, cognitive, and expression modules at inference time. Task modules organize delivery, cognitive modules derive content, and expression modules guide visual realization. The modules exchange structured intermediate artifacts, while a shared execution harness tracks artifact revisions and dependencies, manages tool execution, and checks completion. With the same controller and image generator as the agent baselines, V-Protocol…