arXiv AI By Jialei Li, Dingxian Wang, Xiaoyan Zhao, Yimeng Bai, Xuanyi Zhu, Yang Zhang, Chao Yin, Wentao Shi, Ganesh Prabhu, Karthik Gomadam Rajagopal, Brett Levert, Darvin Yi, Andrew Rabinovich, Zhao Chen

SWE-Clar: Can Coding Agents Clarify Incomplete Client Requirements and Deliver Greenfield Software?

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SWE‑Clar is a benchmark that tests coding agents’ ability to clarify incomplete client requirements before coding. It contains 100 real freelance software tasks from Upwork, each worth at least US$4,000, and includes multi‑round interactions, 512 clarification questions, and separate runs for code implementation and clarification assessment. Experiments with nine state‑of‑the‑art models show that even the best, GPT‑6 Astra, only passes 67% of tasks, highlighting the difficulty of autonomous software delivery in this context.

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