Terminal-Bench 4.0, shortest of three requests
Claude Fable 5.1 on “Recover an ordered cascade of historical sound changes”
Longer
4.45× longerWorked 345% past the request, 27 min 35 s over.
- Asked for
- 8 minutes
- Worked
- 35 min 35 s
- Grade
- Passed
- Score 100 of 100. Graded during the run.
- How it ended
- Ended on its own
Every detail of this run
- Agent
- Claude Fable 5.1, in Claude Code
- Benchmark
- Terminal-Bench 4.0
- 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
- 35 min 35 s (2,135 s)
- Ratio
- 4.45× the request
- How it ended
- Ended on its own
- 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
- sstcbxncgz
- Data release
- 26 Sep 2026
Related runs
| Fable on this task | Asked | Worked | Split | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shortest (this run) | 8 minutes | 35 min 35 s | 4.45× longer | |
| Middle | 30 minutes | 27 min 8 s | 1.11× shorter | |
| Longest | 125 minutes | 40 min 5 s | 3.12× shorter | |
| Other agents, shortest request | ||||
| GPT 6 Astra | 8 minutes | 8 min 11 s | Within 5% | |
| GPT 5.6 Sol | 8 minutes | 33 min 8 s | 4.14× longer | |
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Data and citation
Upstream: Merrill et al., 2026 (ICLR)