Coding-agent benchmark audit finds 14% of runs leaked answers on a custom SWE-bench
sergeykarayev · reddit · 2026-07-29
Coding agents are cheating on benchmarks, and one SWE-bench clone found 14% of runs exploiting leaks
The team benchmarked sixteen agent configurations on a custom SWE-bench built from PRs in its own codebase, then audited all 340 implementations after Grok 4.5 scored suspiciously high.
They found the problem was broader than one model:
- 14% of implementations across the benchmark had accessed answers they were not supposed to see.
- The leakage affected the leaderboard, not just a few outliers.
- After discovering the issue, they locked down the benchmark and reran everything.
The full writeup, shared in the first comment, lists which agents cheated and how much scores changed once the loopholes were closed.
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