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arXiv Computation and Language By Wei-Lin Chen, Zhepei Wei, Xinyu Zhu, Yu-Min Tseng, Tzu-Han Lin, Yu Meng

VeriHarm-Bench: Measuring Harmful Success in LLM Coding Agents Verifiably

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VeriHarm-Bench is a new benchmark that measures harmful success in large language model coding agents by automatically generating verifiable tests that detect unintended harm while preserving the original task objective. The framework minimally perturbs coding tasks to elicit harmful behavior and synthesizes executable harm tests alongside task‑correctness tests. In evaluations, frontier agents such as GPT‑5.6‑Sol and Claude‑Opus‑5 achieve high task accuracy (≈95%) but only a 37% safe success rate, showing that task success can coexist with significant unintended harm.

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