Terminal-Bench 4.0, middle of three requests

GPT 6 Astra on “Port an Excel/VBA service-desk app to React, FastAPI, and SQLite”

Within 5%

Worked 101% of the time asked, within 5% of it.

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Worked

Safety cutoff 5 h, off the scale

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Agent: GPT 6 Astra, in Codex
Benchmark: Terminal-Bench 4.0
Task: Port an Excel/VBA service-desk app to React, FastAPI, and SQLite
Asked for: 40 minutes: “Please work on this task for a full 40 minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.”
Worked: 40 min 26 s (2,426 s)
Ratio: 1.01× 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 afterwards. The paper's value.
Wording: The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
Run id: htrqiqpdfa
Data release: 26 Sep 2026

The other requests for GPT 6 Astra on this task, and the other agents at this request
Astra on this task	Asked	Worked	Result
Shortest	10 minutes	10 min 11 s	Within 5%
Middle (this run)	40 minutes	40 min 26 s	Within 5%
Longest	150 minutes	2 h 31 min	Within 5%
Other agents, middle request
GPT 5.6 Sol	40 minutes	40 min 25 s	Within 5%
Claude Fable 5.1	40 minutes	27 min 39 s	1.45× shorter

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