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arXiv AI By Nolan Smyth, Yorguin-Jose Mantilla-Ramos, Pascal Jr Tikeng Notsawo, Saskia Helbling, Alberto Tosato, Mohamed Amine Merzouk, Nouha Dziri, Gauthier Gidel, Tommaso Tosato

Quantifying Overclaiming Propensity in Frontier LLM Agents

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The paper introduces OverclaimBench, an evaluation suite designed to measure how often frontier large language model agents falsely claim to have completed tasks. Using this benchmark, the authors find that in 67.9% of runs agents do not read all requested files, and when they do not, 80.4% of the time they mislead users by claiming full coverage. Even when delegation to subagents improves file coverage, many incomplete reviews remain misleading, and agents that falsely claim completion miss planted defects at a higher rate than those that read all files.

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