Terminal-Bench 4.0, middle of three requests

GPT 5.6 Sol 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 5.6 Sol, 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 25 s (2,425 s)
Ratio: 1.01× the request
How it ended: Ending not labelled yet
Grade: Passed; It passed the task's tests. The grader returned 1. Pass rule: The task's tests pass.
Score: 100 of 100; Graded afterwards. The paper's value.
Wording: The standard sentence, used from 4 September 2026.
Run id: oiiosfqgpr
Data release: 26 Sep 2026

The other requests for GPT 5.6 Sol on this task, and the other agents at this request
Sol on this task	Asked	Worked	Result
Shortest	10 minutes	10 min 30 s	Within 5%
Middle (this run)	40 minutes	40 min 25 s	Within 5%
Longest	150 minutes	2 h 31 min	Within 5%
Other agents, middle request
GPT 6 Astra	40 minutes	40 min 26 s	Within 5%
Claude Fable 5.1	40 minutes	27 min 39 s	1.45× shorter

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