Workspace-Bench 1.0: Benchmarking AI Agents on Workspace Tasks with Large-Scale File Dependencies
Abstract
Workspace learning requires AI agents to identify, reason over, exploit, and update explicit and implicit dependencies among heterogeneous files in a worker's workspace, enabling them to complete both routine and advanced tasks effectively. Despite its importance, existing relevant benchmarks largely evaluate agents on pre-specified or synthesized files with limited real-world dependencies, leaving workspace-level evaluation underexplored. To this end, we introduce Workspace-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on Workspace Learning involving Large-Scale File Dependencies. We construct realistic workspaces with 5 worker profiles, 74 file types, 20,476 files (up to 20GB) and curate 388 tasks, each with its own file dependency graph, evaluated across 7,399 total rubrics that require cross-file retrieval, contextual reasoning, and adaptive decision-making. We further provide Workspace-Bench-Lite, a 100-task subset that preserves the benchmark distribution while reducing evaluation costs by about 70%. We evaluate 4 popular agent harnesses and 7 foundation models. Experimental results show that current agents remain far from reliable workspace learning, where the best reaches only about 60%, substantially below the human result of 80.7%, and the average performance across agents is only 43.3%.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.03596,
title = {Workspace-Bench 1.0: Benchmarking AI Agents on Workspace Tasks with Large-Scale File Dependencies},
author = {Zirui Tang and Xuanhe Zhou and Yumou Liu and Linchun Li and Yukai Wu and Weizheng Wang and Hongzhang Huang and Wei Zhou and Jun Zhou and Jiachen Song and Shaoli Yu and Jinqi Wang and Zihang Zhou and Hongyi Zhou and Yuting Lv and Jinyang Li and Jiashuo Liu and Ruoyu Chen and Chunwei Liu and GuoLiang Li and Jihua Kang and Fan Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.03596},
year = {2026}
}
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30 pages, 16 figures