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OpenClawBench: Benchmarking Process-side Anomalies in Real-world Agent Execution Trajectories

Artificial Intelligence 2026-05-29 v1

Abstract

Task success can hide process anomalies in real-world agent executions. An agent may pass the final task oracle while still accumulating unresolved ambiguity, unsafe external writes, ignored errors, weakly grounded commitments, or capability-boundary overcommitment. We study this mismatch as the Outcome-Process Gap and introduce OpenClawBench, a large-scale dataset for measuring and supervising process-side anomalies in real agent execution processes. OpenClawBench is built from BFCL-driven OpenClaw sessions produced by 6 source models and contains 31,264 annotated trajectories. It aligns task-oracle outcomes with structured process evidence. FullTax converts the aligned trajectories into structured anomaly supervision: binary labels, supporting evidence, onset/span localization, severity, recoverability, and a 5-class anomaly taxonomy. Using OpenClawBench, we make the Outcome-Process Gap measurable. Among 31,135 oracle-passing executions, 2,904 are still labeled process-anomalous under FullTax. These results show that success-only evaluation misses a concrete class of process-side failures in real agent executions. A LoRA-fine-tuned Gemma 3 12B detector trained on the high-confidence FullTax supervised pool reaches binary F1=0.729 on the cleaner-labels held-out test split. Together, OpenClawBench turns real agent execution logs into auditable and reusable supervision for studying, diagnosing, and operationally monitoring runtime agent reliability.

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@article{arxiv.2605.29253,
  title  = {OpenClawBench: Benchmarking Process-side Anomalies in Real-world Agent Execution Trajectories},
  author = {Yibing Liu and Yangze Liu and Xiaolong Yin and Bin Wang and Chong Zhang and Hao Yin and Zhongyi Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29253},
  year   = {2026}
}

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37 pages, 1 figure, 43 tables

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