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Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces

MMike A. MerrillAAlexander G. ShawNNicholas CarliniBBoxuan LiHHarsh RajIIvan BercovichLLin ShiJJeong Yeon ShinTThomas WalsheEE. Kelly BuchananJJunhong ShenGGuanghao YeHHaowei LinJJason PoulosMMaoyu WangMMarianna NezhurinaJJenia JitsevDDi LuOOrfeas Menis MastromichalakisZZhiwei XuZZizhao ChenYYue LiuRRobert ZhangLLeon Liangyu ChenAAnurag KashyapJJan-Lucas UsluJJeffrey LiJJianbo WuMMinghao YanSSong BianVVedang SharmaKKe SunSSteven DillmannAAkshay AnandAAndrew LanpouthakounBBardia KoopahCChangran HuEEtash GuhaGGabriel H. S. DreimanJJiacheng ZhuKKarl KrauthLLi ZhongNNiklas MuennighoffRRobert AmanfuSShangyin TanSShreyas PimpalgaonkarTTushar AggarwalXXiangning LinXXin LanXXuandong ZhaoYYiqing LiangYYuanli WangZZilong WangCChangzhi ZhouDDavid HeinemanHHange LiuHHarsh TrivediJJohn YangJJunhong LinMManish ShettyMMichael YangNNabil OmiNNegin RaoofSShanda LiTTerry Yue ZhuoWWuwei LinYYiwei DaiYYuxin WangWWenhao ChaiSShang ZhouDDariush WahdanyZZiyu SheJJiaming HuZZhikang DongYYuxuan ZhuSSasha CuiAAhson SaiyedAArinbjörn KolbeinssonJJesse HuCChristopher Michael RyttingRRyan MartenYYixin WangAAlex DimakisAAndy KonwinskiLLudwig Schmidt
arXiv ID
2601.11868
Published
January 17, 2026
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85
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Abstract

AI agents may soon become capable of autonomously completing valuable, long-horizon tasks in diverse domains. Current benchmarks either do not measure real-world tasks, or are not sufficiently difficult to meaningfully measure frontier models. To this end, we present Terminal-Bench 2.0: a carefully curated hard benchmark composed of 89 tasks in computer terminal environments inspired by problems from real workflows. Each task features a unique environment, human-written solution, and comprehensive tests for verification. We show that frontier models and agents score less than 65\% on the benchmark and conduct an error analysis to identify areas for model and agent improvement. We publish the dataset and evaluation harness to assist developers and researchers in future work at https://www.tbench.ai/ .

Keywords

AI agentslong-horizon tasksbenchmarksterminal environmentsreal-world tasksevaluation harness

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