Claim LD06-SL-C08 (v1.0)

An audit of agentic benchmarks found flaws in task setup or scoring, for example insufficient test cases in SWE-bench Verified and empty responses counted as successes in TAU-bench, that can under- or overestimate agents’ performance by up to 100% in relative terms.

Provenance and status

Claim type: ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
Publication status: ELIGIBLE (PREPRINT) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH PREPRINT QUALIFIER”)
Verification state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (PREPRINT) (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED PREPRINT”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
Does not license: A correction factor for any published agent score
Source (field 6, as printed): Zhu, Jin, Pruksachatkun, Zhang, Liu, Cui et al., “Establishing Best Practices for Building Rigorous Agentic Benchmarks,” arXiv:2507.02825 (v5), 2025
Source type (field 7): PREPRINT (as printed: “Preprint”)
Institutional position: Independent academic and nonprofit (UIUC-led, with Stanford, Berkeley, the UK AI Security Institute and others); CVE-Bench, the benchmark the authors improve, comes from the lead authors’ own group
Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity): EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
Recorded date: 2026-10-15
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.

Version

Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD06-SL-C08--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.

This pinned version is also the current version.

Versions:v1.0 · current

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“Zhu, Jin, Pruksachatkun, Zhang, Liu, Cui et al., “Establishing Best Practices for Building Rigorous Agentic Benchmarks,” arXiv:2507.02825 (v5), 2025” → SRC-SL-ZHU-ET-AL-AGENTIC-BENCHMARK-CHECKLIST-ARXIV-2507-02825--v1.0 — Zhu, Jin, Pruksachatkun, Zhang, Liu, Cui et al., “Establishing Best Practices for Building Rigorous Agentic Benchmarks,” arXiv:2507.02825 (v5), 2025; class PREPRINT (explicit public provenance pin)

All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD06-SL-C08	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	An audit of agentic benchmarks found flaws in task setup or scoring, for example insufficient test cases in SWE-bench Verified and empty responses counted as successes in TAU-bench, that can under- or overestimate agents’ performance by up to 100% in relative terms.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	ESTIMATE	base_types: ESTIMATE
4	RESEARCH STRAND	A — Benchmark validity and measurement	—
5	MATURITY	EMERGING	states: EMERGING
6	SOURCE	Zhu, Jin, Pruksachatkun, Zhang, Liu, Cui et al., “Establishing Best Practices for Building Rigorous Agentic Benchmarks,” arXiv:2507.02825 (v5), 2025	source_ids: SRC-SL-ZHU-ET-AL-AGENTIC-BENCHMARK-CHECKLIST-ARXIV-2507-02825
7	SOURCE TYPE	Preprint	classes: PREPRINT
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Independent academic and nonprofit (UIUC-led, with Stanford, Berkeley, the UK AI Security Institute and others); CVE-Bench, the benchmark the authors improve, comes from the lead authors’ own group	—
9	SCOPE	Benchmarks that score AI agents on multi-step tasks	—
10	DESIGN	Audit of benchmark designs; checklist synthesized and applied	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Ten widely used agentic benchmarks	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	Agents evaluated on the audited benchmarks	—
13	COMPARATOR	Corrected task setups and reward designs	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Relative under- or overestimation of up to 100%; applying the checklist to CVE-Bench reduced overestimation by 33%	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Whether agent benchmark scores measure task success	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	A correction factor for any published agent score	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED PREPRINT	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: PREPRINT · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Read in full text (arXiv v5); venue not checked; the audit is by benchmark builders applying their own checklist	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Consistent with maintainer review of SWE-bench patches: LD06-SL-C12	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	Not checked / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Not analysed in this claim	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	LD-06, D4b	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Independent re-scoring of published agent results under corrected designs	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH PREPRINT QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: PREPRINT
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-10-15	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-06 (LIVING_DEBATE); D4b (SUB_AREA)

Cited by Living Debate versions

LD-06 v0.1

Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 29b90ab9c8a4ef851d695405d378a42ac080f1aea67ad4b14f7d59b7873e1a82.

Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)

SocioLens claim — LD06-SL-C08 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-15; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-06 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-06 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 08 — LD06-SL-C08” SHA-256 053ce3805c89335874ed64ce9a7ed465a2db9be1553b754672eec6f24b5d6efb; fixture fixtures/authored/claims/LD06-SL-C08--v1.0.

Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD06-SL-C08 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-06 debate
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD06-SL-C08 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-15); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-06 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-06 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-ZHU-ET-AL-AGENTIC-BENCHMARK-CHECKLIST-ARXIV-2507-02825--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 08 — LD06-SL-C08 cites "Zhu, Jin, Pruksachatkun, Zhang, Liu, Cui et al., “Establishing Best Practices for Building Rigorous Agentic Benchmarks,” arXiv:2507.02825 (v5), 2025"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-ZHU-ET-AL-AGENTIC-BENCHMARK-CHECKLIST-ARXIV-2507-02825--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Zhu, Jin, Pruksachatkun, Zhang, Liu, Cui et al., “Establishing Best Practices for Building Rigorous Agentic Benchmarks,” arXiv:2507.02825 (v5), 2025".