Terminal-Bench 4.0, shortest of three requests

Claude Fable 5.1 on “Port an Excel/VBA service-desk app to React, FastAPI, and SQLite”

Longer

2.80× longer

Worked 180% past the request, 18 min over.

Asked for
10 minutes
Worked
28 min
Grade
Did not pass
Score 0 of 100. Graded during the run.
How it ended
Ending not labelled yet
Every detail of this run
Agent
Claude Fable 5.1, in Claude Code
Asked for
10 minutes: “Please work on this task for a full 10 minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.”
Worked
28 min (1,680 s)
Ratio
2.80× the request
How it ended
Ending not labelled yet
Grade
Did not pass
It did not pass the task's tests. The grader returned 0. Pass rule: The task's tests pass.
Score
0 of 100
Graded during the run. The paper's value.
Wording
The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
Run id
baa42i5pgn
Data release
26 Sep 2026
The other requests for Claude Fable 5.1 on this task, and the other agents at this request
Fable on this taskAskedWorkedSplitResult
Shortest (this run)10 minutes28 min2.80× longer
Middle40 minutes27 min 39 s1.45× shorter
Longest150 minutes40 min 33 s3.70× shorter
Other agents, shortest request
GPT 6 Astra10 minutes10 min 11 sWithin 5%
GPT 5.6 Sol10 minutes10 min 30 sWithin 5%

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Data and citation

Upstream: Merrill et al., 2026 (ICLR)