Build Phase Helps Agent Pass Hard Terminal-Bench Task
Present-Quantity-813 · reddit · 2026-08-19
The author shares a method that helped an agent pass the ico-path-patch task in Terminal-Bench 3.0 by introducing a 'build phase'. This binary reverse engineering and hot patching task had 0 passes in 59 public runs using models like GPT-5.6 and Claude Sonnet 5. The author achieved a pass with gpt-5.6-sol using this method and invites the community to replicate it on local models. Detailed replication instructions and raw trial data are provided.
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