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Frontier coding agents are increasingly trusted to work autonomously for long periods, yet an agent's final response is often the only account of that work a user sees.
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Frontier coding agents are increasingly trusted to work autonomously for long periods, yet an agent's final response is often the only account of that work a user sees. We quantify the propensity of frontier agents to \emph{overclaim} task completion, a misrepresentation that can mislead the user. An agent overclaims when its final response contradicts information in its context. This definition requires no inference about intent and is independent of task success. We introduce \emph{OverclaimBench}, an evaluation suite composed of five file-review scenarios, transcript-based coverage measurem...
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Publisher: arxiv.org
ID: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20812v1 · Indexed about 1 hour ago