arXiv AI

FACET: Preserving Source Intent and Executable State in Terminal Task Synthesis

FACET is a framework for synthesizing terminal tasks that preserves source intent and ensures cross‑artifact consistency. It reconstructs agent skills into coherent scenarios, repairs the execution environment, and uses the resulting container state as shared grounding for the instruction, solution, and verifier. By validating and repairing artifacts through execution, FACET produces complex tasks with dense executable checks and data‑efficient supervision, improving performance on Terminal‑Bench 2.1.

arXiv AI
6d ago

Terminal-Universe: Turning Agent Trajectories into Scalable Terminal Environments

Terminal-Universe is a framework that transforms large collections of terminal‑based agent trajectories into reusable, executable environments. By replaying recorded file operations and completing missing files, it reconstructs the original workspace and task, then synthesizes new tasks and multi‑round interactions. The resulting 37.3k task‑sufficient environments enable significant performance gains when fine‑tuning language models on terminal‑based benchmarks.

By Jie Wu, Zhenru Zhang, Beichen Zhang, Xuwu Wang, Yuhui Su, Mouxiang Chen, Peng Wang, Zhihai Wang, Que Shen, Hao Zhou, An Yang, Fei Huang, Yujiu Yang, Dayiheng Liu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
6d ago

Terminal-Universe: Turning Agent Trajectories into Scalable Terminal Environments

Terminal-Universe is a framework that converts large collections of terminal-based agent trajectories into reusable, executable environments. By replaying recorded file operations and filling missing files with a completion agent, it reconstructs the original workspace and generates new tasks, scaling them in breadth (cross-workspace queries) and depth (multi-round interactions). The resulting 37.3k task-sufficient environments enable significant performance gains when fine‑tuning language models on terminal‑centric benchmarks.

arXiv AI
3d ago

RefactorPlatform: An Open-Source Harness for Controlled Evaluation of Repository-Scale Refactoring Agents

RefactorPlatform is an open‑source harness that standardizes the evaluation of repository‑scale refactoring agents by fixing the environment and systematically varying design choices such as model backbone, execution regime, and prompt specificity. Each run operates in an isolated workspace, logs detailed telemetry, and verifies changes with AST‑based checks. Experiments on 100 RefactorBench tasks show that AST‑aware chunking improves performance by 25‑30%, a lean retrieval‑augmented single agent outperforms a sub‑agent configuration, and retrieval’s accuracy gains offset its token overhead, keeping cost per successful refactoring unchanged.

By Aziz Ben Amor, Drish Mali, Mann Acharya, Vijayasri Iyer, S\'ebastien Brati\`eres
arXiv AI
Jul 14

AgentAbstain: Do LLM Agents Know When Not to Act?

arXiv:2607. 10059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent systems based on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for autonomous tasks, yet existing evaluations mostly focus on task success rather than whether agents know when to abstain.

By Xun Liu, Yi Evie Zhang, Vira Kasprova, Parisa Rabbani, Pardis Sadat Zahraei, Tianyu Zhang, Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny, Varun Chandrasekaran
arXiv AI
Aug 7

Recursive Synthesis for Long-Horizon Terminal Tasks

arXiv:2608. 05466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality long-horizon training data for terminal agents is expensive to produce, often costing hundreds to thousands of dollars per task, because each task must keep the instruction, environment, reference solution, and verifier mutually consistent.

By Zhongzhi Li, Yucheng Shi, Zongxia Li, Ruhan Wang, Anhao Li, Zixun Huang, Junyao Yang, Lei Ke, Ninghao Liu, Haitao Mi, Leowei Liang
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Terminal Agents: A Survey of AI Agents in Command-Line Environments

The paper surveys AI agents that operate primarily through command-line terminals, defining them as systems whose main action loop involves executing terminal commands, receiving textual feedback, and interacting with a stateful environment. It introduces a seven‑dimensional terminal competence profile to link system architecture, learning, and evaluation, and highlights how behavior is jointly shaped by the model, interface, harness, runtime, and environment. The authors argue for explicit reporting of system and runtime conditions, supported by replayable traces and process‑level evidence, to better understand and benchmark terminal‑mediated agency.

By Yi Bin, Xiaoyang Yuan, Haoxi Zeng, Wencheng Ye, Wenqi Shao, Chen Qian, Wei Ye, Yujuan Ding, Zheng Wang, Pengpeng Zeng, Jingkuan Song, Heng Tao Shen
arXiv AI
Jul 14

SETA: Scaling Environments for Terminal Agents

arXiv:2607. 10891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly shifting toward agents that solve tasks through diverse interfaces, including web and graphical user interfaces (GUIs).

By Qijia Shen, Zhiqi Huang, Vamsidhar Kamanuru, Aznaur Aliev, Jay Rainton, Ahmed Awelkair, Zhichen Zeng, Jiajun Li, Shi Dong, Yueming Yuan, Boyuan Ma, Qizheng Zhang, Jiwei Fu, Yuzhen Mao, Wendong Fan, Ping Nie, Philip Torr, Bernard Ghanem, Changran Hu, Jonathan Lingjie Li, Urmish Thakker, Guohao Li
arXiv AI
Jul 21

DataFlow-Harness: A Grounded Code-Agent Platform for Constructing Editable LLM Data Pipelines

arXiv:2607. 16617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate data-processing workflows, yet coding agents typically produce scripts that are not automatically materialized as persistent, editable platform artifacts.

By Runming He, Zhen Hao Wong, Hao Liang, Zimo Meng, Chengyu Shen, Xiaochen Ma, Wentao Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 30

TUA-Bench: A Benchmark for General-Purpose Terminal-Use Agents

arXiv:2606. 28480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models and harness frameworks continue to advance, agents operating in terminals are increasingly capable of performing a broader range of general computer-use tasks beyond coding.

By Shoufa Chen, Luyuan Wang, Xuan Yang, Zhiheng Liu, Yuren Cong, Yuanfeng Ji, Feiyan Zhou, Xiaohui Zhang, Fanny Yang, Belinda Zeng
arXiv AI
Jun 12

ComAct: Reframing Professional Software Manipulation via COM-as-Action Paradigm

arXiv:2606. 13239v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing computer-use agents remain fundamentally limited in professional software manipulation: GUI-based agents suffer from fragile visual grounding and long-horizon error accumulation, while API-basedapproaches struggle with heterogeneous protocols and inaccessible commercial interfaces.

By Jiaxin Ai, Tao Hu, Xuemeng Yang, Shu Zou, Hairong Zhang, Daocheng Fu, Yu Yang, Hongbin Zhou, Nianchen Deng, Pinlong Cai, Zhongyuan Wang, Botian Shi, Kaipeng Zhang, Licheng Wen