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AgentSWE: Can Coding Agents Build the Agent You Actually Want?
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ORAgentBench: Can LLM Agents Solve Challenging Operations Research Tasks End to End?
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Zero2Repo: Can Coding Agents Build Repositories from Scratch?
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$\tau^\tau$-Bench: An Environment for End-To-End, Realistic Agent Construction
The paper introduces $ au^ au$-Bench, a benchmark that turns the construction of AI agents into a measurable task. In this environment a developer agent receives real business records, client requirements, a production API, an existing codebase, and constraints on cost and models, and must deliver a complete customer‑service agent. The benchmark evaluates performance by deploying the agent against simulated users, revealing that current state‑of‑the‑art models achieve only 23.9% success while an expert‑written reference scores 82.2%.
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Position: Coding Benchmarks Are Misaligned with Agentic Software Engineering
arXiv:2606. 17799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents have become a major mode of software engineering, but the benchmarks we use to compare them were designed in a pre-agent era: they collapse model, harness, and environment into a single end-to-end score, typically computed against one reference solution, with no component-level signal for iteration.
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