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Plancraft: an evaluation dataset for planning with LLM agents

Computation and Language 2025-07-16 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We present Plancraft, a multi-modal evaluation dataset for LLM agents. Plancraft has both a text-only and multi-modal interface, based on the Minecraft crafting GUI. We include the Minecraft Wiki to evaluate tool use and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), as well as a handcrafted planner and Oracle Retriever, to ablate the different components of a modern agent architecture. To evaluate decision-making, Plancraft also includes a subset of examples that are intentionally unsolvable, providing a realistic challenge that requires the agent not only to complete tasks but also to decide whether they are solvable at all. We benchmark both open-source and closed-source LLMs and compare their performance and efficiency to a handcrafted planner. Overall, we find that LLMs and VLMs struggle with the planning problems that Plancraft introduces, and offer suggestions on how to improve their capabilities.

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@article{arxiv.2412.21033,
  title  = {Plancraft: an evaluation dataset for planning with LLM agents},
  author = {Gautier Dagan and Frank Keller and Alex Lascarides},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.21033},
  year   = {2025}
}
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