Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces

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Auteurs principaux: Merrill, Mike A., Shaw, Alexander G., Carlini, Nicholas, Li, Boxuan, Raj, Harsh, Bercovich, Ivan, Shi, Lin, Shin, Jeong Yeon, Walshe, Thomas, Buchanan, E. Kelly, Shen, Junhong, Ye, Guanghao, Lin, Haowei, Poulos, Jason, Wang, Maoyu, Nezhurina, Marianna, Jitsev, Jenia, Lu, Di, Mastromichalakis, Orfeas Menis, Xu, Zhiwei, Chen, Zizhao, Liu, Yue, Zhang, Robert, Chen, Leon Liangyu, Kashyap, Anurag, Uslu, Jan-Lucas, Li, Jeffrey, Wu, Jianbo, Yan, Minghao, Bian, Song, Sharma, Vedang, Sun, Ke, Dillmann, Steven, Anand, Akshay, Lanpouthakoun, Andrew, Koopah, Bardia, Hu, Changran, Guha, Etash, Dreiman, Gabriel H. S., Zhu, Jiacheng, Krauth, Karl, Zhong, Li, Muennighoff, Niklas, Amanfu, Robert, Tan, Shangyin, Pimpalgaonkar, Shreyas, Aggarwal, Tushar, Lin, Xiangning, Lan, Xin, Zhao, Xuandong, Liang, Yiqing, Wang, Yuanli, Wang, Zilong, Zhou, Changzhi, Heineman, David, Liu, Hange, Trivedi, Harsh, Yang, John, Lin, Junhong, Shetty, Manish, Yang, Michael, Omi, Nabil, Raoof, Negin, Li, Shanda, Zhuo, Terry Yue, Lin, Wuwei, Dai, Yiwei, Wang, Yuxin, Chai, Wenhao, Zhou, Shang, Wahdany, Dariush, She, Ziyu, Hu, Jiaming, Dong, Zhikang, Zhu, Yuxuan, Cui, Sasha, Saiyed, Ahson, Kolbeinsson, Arinbjörn, Hu, Jesse, Rytting, Christopher Michael, Marten, Ryan, Wang, Yixin, Dimakis, Alex, Konwinski, Andy, Schmidt, Ludwig
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author Merrill, Mike A.
Shaw, Alexander G.
Carlini, Nicholas
Li, Boxuan
Raj, Harsh
Bercovich, Ivan
Shi, Lin
Shin, Jeong Yeon
Walshe, Thomas
Buchanan, E. Kelly
Shen, Junhong
Ye, Guanghao
Lin, Haowei
Poulos, Jason
Wang, Maoyu
Nezhurina, Marianna
Jitsev, Jenia
Lu, Di
Mastromichalakis, Orfeas Menis
Xu, Zhiwei
Chen, Zizhao
Liu, Yue
Zhang, Robert
Chen, Leon Liangyu
Kashyap, Anurag
Uslu, Jan-Lucas
Li, Jeffrey
Wu, Jianbo
Yan, Minghao
Bian, Song
Sharma, Vedang
Sun, Ke
Dillmann, Steven
Anand, Akshay
Lanpouthakoun, Andrew
Koopah, Bardia
Hu, Changran
Guha, Etash
Dreiman, Gabriel H. S.
Zhu, Jiacheng
Krauth, Karl
Zhong, Li
Muennighoff, Niklas
Amanfu, Robert
Tan, Shangyin
Pimpalgaonkar, Shreyas
Aggarwal, Tushar
Lin, Xiangning
Lan, Xin
Zhao, Xuandong
Liang, Yiqing
Wang, Yuanli
Wang, Zilong
Zhou, Changzhi
Heineman, David
Liu, Hange
Trivedi, Harsh
Yang, John
Lin, Junhong
Shetty, Manish
Yang, Michael
Omi, Nabil
Raoof, Negin
Li, Shanda
Zhuo, Terry Yue
Lin, Wuwei
Dai, Yiwei
Wang, Yuxin
Chai, Wenhao
Zhou, Shang
Wahdany, Dariush
She, Ziyu
Hu, Jiaming
Dong, Zhikang
Zhu, Yuxuan
Cui, Sasha
Saiyed, Ahson
Kolbeinsson, Arinbjörn
Hu, Jesse
Rytting, Christopher Michael
Marten, Ryan
Wang, Yixin
Dimakis, Alex
Konwinski, Andy
Schmidt, Ludwig
author_facet Merrill, Mike A.
Shaw, Alexander G.
Carlini, Nicholas
Li, Boxuan
Raj, Harsh
Bercovich, Ivan
Shi, Lin
Shin, Jeong Yeon
Walshe, Thomas
Buchanan, E. Kelly
Shen, Junhong
Ye, Guanghao
Lin, Haowei
Poulos, Jason
Wang, Maoyu
Nezhurina, Marianna
Jitsev, Jenia
Lu, Di
Mastromichalakis, Orfeas Menis
Xu, Zhiwei
Chen, Zizhao
Liu, Yue
Zhang, Robert
Chen, Leon Liangyu
Kashyap, Anurag
Uslu, Jan-Lucas
Li, Jeffrey
Wu, Jianbo
Yan, Minghao
Bian, Song
Sharma, Vedang
Sun, Ke
Dillmann, Steven
Anand, Akshay
Lanpouthakoun, Andrew
Koopah, Bardia
Hu, Changran
Guha, Etash
Dreiman, Gabriel H. S.
Zhu, Jiacheng
Krauth, Karl
Zhong, Li
Muennighoff, Niklas
Amanfu, Robert
Tan, Shangyin
Pimpalgaonkar, Shreyas
Aggarwal, Tushar
Lin, Xiangning
Lan, Xin
Zhao, Xuandong
Liang, Yiqing
Wang, Yuanli
Wang, Zilong
Zhou, Changzhi
Heineman, David
Liu, Hange
Trivedi, Harsh
Yang, John
Lin, Junhong
Shetty, Manish
Yang, Michael
Omi, Nabil
Raoof, Negin
Li, Shanda
Zhuo, Terry Yue
Lin, Wuwei
Dai, Yiwei
Wang, Yuxin
Chai, Wenhao
Zhou, Shang
Wahdany, Dariush
She, Ziyu
Hu, Jiaming
Dong, Zhikang
Zhu, Yuxuan
Cui, Sasha
Saiyed, Ahson
Kolbeinsson, Arinbjörn
Hu, Jesse
Rytting, Christopher Michael
Marten, Ryan
Wang, Yixin
Dimakis, Alex
Konwinski, Andy
Schmidt, Ludwig
contents AI agents may soon become capable of autonomously completing valuable, long-horizon tasks in diverse domains. Current benchmarks either do not measure real-world tasks, or are not sufficiently difficult to meaningfully measure frontier models. To this end, we present Terminal-Bench 2.0: a carefully curated hard benchmark composed of 89 tasks in computer terminal environments inspired by problems from real workflows. Each task features a unique environment, human-written solution, and comprehensive tests for verification. We show that frontier models and agents score less than 65\% on the benchmark and conduct an error analysis to identify areas for model and agent improvement. We publish the dataset and evaluation harness to assist developers and researchers in future work at https://www.tbench.ai/ .
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spellingShingle Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces
Merrill, Mike A.
Shaw, Alexander G.
Carlini, Nicholas
Li, Boxuan
Raj, Harsh
Bercovich, Ivan
Shi, Lin
Shin, Jeong Yeon
Walshe, Thomas
Buchanan, E. Kelly
Shen, Junhong
Ye, Guanghao
Lin, Haowei
Poulos, Jason
Wang, Maoyu
Nezhurina, Marianna
Jitsev, Jenia
Lu, Di
Mastromichalakis, Orfeas Menis
Xu, Zhiwei
Chen, Zizhao
Liu, Yue
Zhang, Robert
Chen, Leon Liangyu
Kashyap, Anurag
Uslu, Jan-Lucas
Li, Jeffrey
Wu, Jianbo
Yan, Minghao
Bian, Song
Sharma, Vedang
Sun, Ke
Dillmann, Steven
Anand, Akshay
Lanpouthakoun, Andrew
Koopah, Bardia
Hu, Changran
Guha, Etash
Dreiman, Gabriel H. S.
Zhu, Jiacheng
Krauth, Karl
Zhong, Li
Muennighoff, Niklas
Amanfu, Robert
Tan, Shangyin
Pimpalgaonkar, Shreyas
Aggarwal, Tushar
Lin, Xiangning
Lan, Xin
Zhao, Xuandong
Liang, Yiqing
Wang, Yuanli
Wang, Zilong
Zhou, Changzhi
Heineman, David
Liu, Hange
Trivedi, Harsh
Yang, John
Lin, Junhong
Shetty, Manish
Yang, Michael
Omi, Nabil
Raoof, Negin
Li, Shanda
Zhuo, Terry Yue
Lin, Wuwei
Dai, Yiwei
Wang, Yuxin
Chai, Wenhao
Zhou, Shang
Wahdany, Dariush
She, Ziyu
Hu, Jiaming
Dong, Zhikang
Zhu, Yuxuan
Cui, Sasha
Saiyed, Ahson
Kolbeinsson, Arinbjörn
Hu, Jesse
Rytting, Christopher Michael
Marten, Ryan
Wang, Yixin
Dimakis, Alex
Konwinski, Andy
Schmidt, Ludwig
Software Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
AI agents may soon become capable of autonomously completing valuable, long-horizon tasks in diverse domains. Current benchmarks either do not measure real-world tasks, or are not sufficiently difficult to meaningfully measure frontier models. To this end, we present Terminal-Bench 2.0: a carefully curated hard benchmark composed of 89 tasks in computer terminal environments inspired by problems from real workflows. Each task features a unique environment, human-written solution, and comprehensive tests for verification. We show that frontier models and agents score less than 65\% on the benchmark and conduct an error analysis to identify areas for model and agent improvement. We publish the dataset and evaluation harness to assist developers and researchers in future work at https://www.tbench.ai/ .
title Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces
topic Software Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11868