Terminal-Bench 4.0, shortest of three requests

Claude Fable 5.1 on “Repair batched LLM evaluation so it matches single-example semantics”

Longer

2.06× longer

Worked 106% past the request, 8 min 30 s over.

Asked for
8 minutes
Worked
16 min 30 s
Grade
Passed
Score 100 of 100. Graded during the run.
How it ended
Stopped by an error
Every detail of this run
Agent
Claude Fable 5.1, in Claude Code
Asked for
8 minutes: “Please work on this task for a full 8 minutes. Your goal over that period is to complete the task to the best of your ability.”
Worked
16 min 30 s (990 s)
Ratio
2.06× the request
How it ended
Stopped by an error
Grade
Passed
It passed the task's tests. The grader returned 1. Pass rule: The task's tests pass.
Score
100 of 100
Graded during the run. The paper's value.
Wording
The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
Run id
mx6shusbsf
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)8 minutes16 min 30 s2.06× longer
Middle30 minutes18 min 18 s1.64× shorter
Longest125 minutes20 min 42 s6.04× shorter
Other agents, shortest request
GPT 6 Astra8 minutes8 min 11 sWithin 5%
GPT 5.6 Sol8 minutes32 min 41 s4.08× longer

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Data and citation

Upstream: Merrill et al., 2026 (ICLR)