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Evaluating coding agent capabilities with Terminal-Bench: Snorkel’s role in building the next generation benchmark

Announcing a $3M commitment to launch Open Benchmarks Grants
September 30, 2025
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Closing the Evaluation Gap in Agentic AI

Announcing a $3M commitment to launch Open Benchmarks Grants

February 11, 2026
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Benchtalks #1: Alex Shaw (Terminal-Bench, Harbor) – Building the Benchmark Factory

Announcing a $3M commitment to launch Open Benchmarks Grants
March 31, 2026
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Building FinQA: An Open RL Environment for Financial Reasoning Agents

Announcing a $3M commitment to launch Open Benchmarks Grants
March 30, 2026
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The science of rubric design

Announcing a $3M commitment to launch Open Benchmarks Grants
September 11, 2025
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Benchmarks should shape the frontier, not just measure it
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Benchmarks should shape the frontier, not just measure it

Since launching the Open Benchmarks Grants, we’ve received more than 100 applications from academic groups and industry labs spanning a wide range of domains and capabilities. As the best benchmarks drive how the field allocates research effort, the bar for benchmarks has risen as well. Here, we share what’s now table stakes for useful benchmarks, and what separates the ones…

Apr 07, 2026
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RIFT: A Rubric Failure Mode Taxonomy and Automated Diagnostics
Rubric-based evaluation is widely used in LLM benchmarks and training pipelines for open-ended, less verifiable tasks. While prior work has demonstrated the effectiveness of rubrics using downstream signals such as reinforcement learning outcomes, there remains no principled way to diagnose rubric quality issues from such aggregated or downstream signals alone. To address this gap, we introduce RIFT: RubrIc Failure mode Taxonomy, a taxonomy for systematically characterizing failure modes in rubric composition and design. RIFT consists of eight failure modes organized into three high-level categories: Reliability Failures, Content Validity Failures, and Consequential Validity Failures. RIFT is developed using grounded theory by...
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Accepted to ICLR Brazil 2026
RIFT: A Rubric Failure Mode Taxonomy and Automated Diagnostics

Rubric-based evaluation is widely used in LLM benchmarks and training pipelines for open-ended, less verifiable tasks. While prior work has demonstrated the effectiveness of rubrics using downstream signals such as reinforcement learning outcomes, there remains no principled way to diagnose rubric quality issues from such aggregated or downstream signals alone. To address this gap, we introduce RIFT: RubrIc Failure mode…

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Benchtalks #1: Alex Shaw (Terminal-Bench, Harbor) – Building the Benchmark Factory
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Benchtalks #1: Alex Shaw (Terminal-Bench, Harbor) – Building the Benchmark Factory

To kick off our inaugural Benchtalks, a series dedicated to the researchers building these measurement toolkits, Snorkel AI co-founder Vincent Sunn Chen sat down with Alex Shaw, Founding MTS at Laude Institute and co-creator of Terminal-Bench and Harbor. Highlights More on Terminal-Bench: See the leaderboard and the catalog of tasks at tbench.ai. Explore Harbor: Learn how to scale your agent…

Mar 31, 2026
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Building FinQA: An Open RL Environment for Financial Reasoning Agents
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Building FinQA: An Open RL Environment for Financial Reasoning Agents

TL;DR: We built FinQA — a financial question-answering environment with 290 expert-curated questions across 22 public companies, now available on OpenEnv. Agents use MCP tools to discover schemas, write constrained SQL queries, and answer multi-step questions from real SEC 10-K filings. Most open-source models struggle with this kind of multi-step tool use, and even frontier closed-source models, while more accurate,…

Mar 30, 2026
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How Tool Discipline Let a 4B Model Outsmart a 235B Giant on Financial Tasks
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How Tool Discipline Let a 4B Model Outsmart a 235B Giant on Financial Tasks

The Snorkel research team collaborated with the rLLM team at UC Berkeley on the Agentica project, using their open-source rLLM framework to fine-tune Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507, delivering a model that beats Qwen3-235B-A22B on Snorkel AI’s expert-curated financial benchmarks – at 1/60th the size. A full breakdown of the results are published in the rLLM blog here. The key insight? Just focus on…

Feb 18, 2026
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Coding agents don’t need to be perfect, they need to recover
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Coding agents don’t need to be perfect, they need to recover

Error analysis of 8 models on Agentic Coding tasks Successful completion of complex tasks doesn’t come from models being always right. It comes from models being resilient when things go wrong. To get a deeper understanding of model behavior in agentic environments, our team analyzed all of the errors found in the full traces of tasks from our Agentic Coding…

Feb 13, 2026
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Closing the Evaluation Gap in Agentic AI
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Closing the Evaluation Gap in Agentic AI

Today, AI is marked by a growing asymmetry: the excitement around agentic AI is real — backed by quantitative progress on model cards and genuine leaps forward, especially in coding. But ask individuals or enterprises where they feel ready to deploy agentic automation in high-stakes, domain-specific settings outside of coding… and you will find hesitation. The reason: our ability to…

Feb 11, 2026
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Benchmarking Agents in Insurance Underwriting Environments
As AI agents integrate into enterprise applications, their evaluation demands benchmarks that reflect the complexity of real-world operations. Instead, existing benchmarks overemphasize open-domains such as code, use narrow accuracy metrics, and lack authentic complexity. We present UNDERWRITE, an expert-first, multi-turn insurance underwriting benchmark designed in close collaboration with domain experts to capture real-world enterprise challenges. UNDERWRITE introduces critical realism factors often absent in current benchmarks: proprietary business knowledge, noisy tool interfaces, and imperfect simulated users requiring careful information gathering. Evaluating 13 frontier models, we uncover significant gaps between research lab performance and enterprise readiness: the most accurate models are not...
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Accepted to CAIS 2026
Benchmarking Agents in Insurance Underwriting Environments

As AI agents integrate into enterprise applications, their evaluation demands benchmarks that reflect the complexity of real-world operations. Instead, existing benchmarks overemphasize open-domains such as code, use narrow accuracy metrics, and lack authentic complexity. We present UNDERWRITE, an expert-first, multi-turn insurance underwriting benchmark designed in close collaboration with domain experts to capture real-world enterprise challenges. UNDERWRITE introduces critical realism factors…

Jan 31, 2026
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Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces
AI agents may soon become capable of autonomously completing valuable, long horizon tasks in diverse domains. Current benchmarks either do not measure real-world tasks, or are not sufficiently difficult to meaningfully measure frontier models. To this end, we present Terminal-Bench 2.0: a carefully curated hard benchmark composed of 89 tasks in computer terminal environments inspired by problems from real workflows. Each task features a unique environment, human written solution, and comprehensive tests for verification. We show that frontier models and agents score less than 65% on the benchmark and conduct an error analysis to identify areas for model and agent...
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Terminal-Bench: Benchmarking Agents on Hard, Realistic Tasks in Command Line Interfaces

AI agents may soon become capable of autonomously completing valuable, long horizon tasks in diverse domains. Current benchmarks either do not measure real-world tasks, or are not sufficiently difficult to meaningfully measure frontier models. To this end, we present Terminal-Bench 2.0: a carefully curated hard benchmark composed of 89 tasks in computer terminal environments inspired by problems from real workflows….

Jan 30, 2026
Snorkel Team
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