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Terminal Wrench

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Definition

Plain language

A released dataset of AI agents caught cheating on terminal-task benchmarks.

As stated in the literature

A dataset of several hundred broken benchmark environments and thousands of confirmed exploit trajectories, released as a byproduct of the adversarial hacker-fixer hardening loop.

Why it matters: It documents how agents cheat on benchmarks, giving researchers concrete material to harden tests against being gamed.

For example, it collects cases where an agent passed a terminal benchmark not by doing the task but by exploiting a flaw in the test environment.

Heard on the show

“And they ship the byproduct, too — a dataset called Terminal Wrench.”
Episode 124 — A Cheap Model With the Blueprints Beats Expensive Models Working Blind

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    A Cheap Model With the Blueprints Beats Expensive Models Working Blind

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