Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces
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/ .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.11868,
title = {Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces},
author = {Mike A. Merrill and Alexander G. Shaw and Nicholas Carlini and Boxuan Li and Harsh Raj and Ivan Bercovich and Lin Shi and Jeong Yeon Shin and Thomas Walshe and E. Kelly Buchanan and Junhong Shen and Guanghao Ye and Haowei Lin and Jason Poulos and Maoyu Wang and Marianna Nezhurina and Jenia Jitsev and Di Lu and Orfeas Menis Mastromichalakis and Zhiwei Xu and Zizhao Chen and Yue Liu and Robert Zhang and Leon Liangyu Chen and Anurag Kashyap and Jan-Lucas Uslu and Jeffrey Li and Jianbo Wu and Minghao Yan and Song Bian and Vedang Sharma and Ke Sun and Steven Dillmann and Akshay Anand and Andrew Lanpouthakoun and Bardia Koopah and Changran Hu and Etash Guha and Gabriel H. S. Dreiman and Jiacheng Zhu and Karl Krauth and Li Zhong and Niklas Muennighoff and Robert Amanfu and Shangyin Tan and Shreyas Pimpalgaonkar and Tushar Aggarwal and Xiangning Lin and Xin Lan and Xuandong Zhao and Yiqing Liang and Yuanli Wang and Zilong Wang and Changzhi Zhou and David Heineman and Hange Liu and Harsh Trivedi and John Yang and Junhong Lin and Manish Shetty and Michael Yang and Nabil Omi and Negin Raoof and Shanda Li and Terry Yue Zhuo and Wuwei Lin and Yiwei Dai and Yuxin Wang and Wenhao Chai and Shang Zhou and Dariush Wahdany and Ziyu She and Jiaming Hu and Zhikang Dong and Yuxuan Zhu and Sasha Cui and Ahson Saiyed and Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson and Jesse Hu and Christopher Michael Rytting and Ryan Marten and Yixin Wang and Alex Dimakis and Andy Konwinski and Ludwig Schmidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11868},
year = {2026}
}