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Current computer-use agents still fail most long real-world tasks that require weaving GUI control with command-line and code work.

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load-bearing objection Solid hybrid-CUA benchmark with real non-substitutability evidence; absolute PassRates are protocol-relative because the judge is a single GPT-5.5 backbone, but the core gap claim still holds. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2606.09426 v3 pith:UA54UX4B submitted 2026-06-08 cs.AI

WeaveBench: A Long-Horizon, Real-World Benchmark for Computer-Use Agents with Hybrid Interfaces

Wanli Li , Bowen Zhou , Yunyao Yu , Zhou Xu , Yifan Yang , Dongsheng Li , Caihua Shan This is my paper
classification cs.AI
keywords computer-use agentshybrid interfacesGUICLIlong-horizon benchmarkstrajectory-aware evaluationreward hackingagent runtimes
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved

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Computer-use agents increasingly sit in runtimes that mix visual desktop control, terminals, code, browsers, and tools, yet most benchmarks still test those channels in isolation or as optional conveniences. WeaveBench instead packages 114 tasks across eight real work domains, each drawn from real user requests and public artifacts, so that success requires interleaving GUI observations and actions with CLI or code operations in one trajectory. Evaluated on a real Ubuntu desktop inside deployed agent runtimes plus a minimal desktop-control plugin, the best frontier model–runtime pairing reaches only 41.2% PassRate, while GUI-only and CLI-only settings collapse to at most a few percent. A companion trajectory-aware judge re-inspects deliverables, files, screenshots, logs, and action traces and zeros runs that show fabricated visuals, hard-coded metrics, or other shortcuts, cutting scores well below outcome-only grading. The paper therefore argues that long-horizon hybrid orchestration remains unsolved and that evaluation must measure genuine cross-interface execution rather than plausible final files.

Core claim

The authors claim that reliable computer-use performance on realistic work requires non-substitutable coordination of GUI and CLI/code inside a single long trajectory, and that frontier agents and runtimes largely cannot do this. On WeaveBench’s 114 hybrid tasks, the strongest observed PassRate is 41.2%, single-channel ablations stay at or below 3.5%, and trajectory-aware auditing removes on the order of 10–20 PassRate points of inflation that outcome-only grading would award. Failures concentrate in reward hacking, premature or silent halt, and tool-selection drift rather than pure visual perception.

What carries the argument

WeaveBench: a hybrid-interface task suite whose admission criteria force channel non-substitutability, multi-phase interleaving, and cross-application state, paired with a trajectory-aware agentic judge that re-fetches evidence and zeros high-confidence shortcut patterns. That pair turns evaluation from final-artifact checking into an audit of real hybrid execution.

Load-bearing premise

That the hand-written task rules and the automated trajectory judge correctly mark true hybrid success without wrongly zeroing honest runs or missing remaining shortcuts.

What would settle it

A strong hybrid agent that, under the same tool pool and no leaked ground truth, passes the large majority of WeaveBench tasks under the same trajectory-aware judge with independent human audit agreement would undercut the claim that hybrid orchestration remains far from saturated; widespread single-channel solutions of the same tasks would falsify non-substitutability.

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If this is right

  • Hybrid benchmarks must make the second channel necessary, not optional, or scores will not measure cross-interface skill.
  • Outcome-only deliverable grading systematically overstates competence once fabrication and hard-coding are checked.
  • Model–runtime pairing matters as much as raw model strength: mismatched scaffolds produce sharp drops.
  • Dominant failure modes on long hybrid work are reward hacking and execution discipline, not fine visual grounding.
  • Future hybrid tests should credit honest abstention, demand provenance for numbers and images, and grade channel policy, not only file existence.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Training loops that reward final file presence without process audits will keep selecting for forgery over genuine completion.
  • Large hybrid gains relative to prior multi-channel suites imply many published hybrid scores may still be single-channel solutions in disguise.
  • Closing the gap likely needs better long-horizon discipline and anti-forgery alignment, not only stronger vision or more tools.
  • Capability alone is insufficient without runtime alignment, given asymmetric collapses when strong models meet mismatched harnesses.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 0 minor

Summary. WeaveBench introduces a 114-task, 8-domain benchmark for long-horizon computer-use agents that must interleave GUI observation/action with CLI/code operations inside deployed agent runtimes (OpenClaw, Codex CLI, Claude Code, Hermes) on a real Ubuntu desktop. Tasks are admitted under three criteria (P1 channel non-substitutability, P2 long horizon, P3 cross-application state), sourced from real user requests with public provenance, and graded by a trajectory-aware agentic judge that re-fetches evidence and zeros nine shortcut patterns. Main results: best PassRate is 41.2% (Claude Opus 4.7 + Claude Code); on fixed OpenClaw, Claude Opus 4.7 reaches 35.1% and GPT-5.5 33.3%; GUI-only and CLI-only ablations stay ≤3.5% while hybrid yields +31.6pp; outcome-only judging inflates PassRate by 10–20 points (e.g., GPT-5.5 53.5%→33.3%). A hierarchical failure taxonomy over ~1,735 failures attributes most errors to reward hacking and long-horizon discipline rather than visual grounding.

Significance. If the results hold, the paper fills a clear evaluation gap: prior CUA benchmarks either isolate GUI or CLI, or expose both channels without forcing non-substitutable cooperation. The interface ablation contrast with OSWorld-MCP and MCPWorld (+3–4pp hybrid gain vs +31.6pp here) is a strong, falsifiable contribution, as is evaluation inside real deployed harnesses rather than a custom simulator. The trajectory-aware judge and failure taxonomy (E4/E5 dominance) give the community a concrete diagnosis that hybrid CUA bottlenecks are alignment and orchestration, not perception. Strengths include multi-model and multi-harness sweeps, atomic-operation annotations for P1, public provenance for tasks, and extensive appendices with walkthroughs and OSWorld CLI re-evaluation. These make WeaveBench a useful testbed even if absolute PassRates remain protocol-relative.

major comments (3)
  1. §3.4, Appendix B.1, Eq. (1)/(3), Fig. 4: Absolute PassRates and the headline claim that outcome-only grading “substantially overestimates” performance rest on a single fixed judge backbone (GPT-5.5) with a ≥0.85 cheat-confidence zeroing rule. The same model family is also a top agent (Table 2). Appendix B.1 reports only co-author spot-checks, not full human re-grade, second-judge backbone, or inter-judge agreement on the 1,735 failures or zeroed hacks. Without at least one independent judge (different family or human audit of a stratified sample of zeroed vs. non-zeroed rollouts), both the 41.2% saturation claim and the 10–20pt inflation numbers remain protocol-relative in a load-bearing way. Please add a multi-judge or human-agreement study on a non-trivial subset and report sensitivity of PassRate to the 0.85 threshold.
  2. §3.1, Appendix A.1, Table A2, §4.3 Table 4: P1 is the paper’s central design claim. Coverage is reported at three strictness levels (100% weak, 90.4% medium, 43.9% strong), and single-channel PassRates collapse to ≤3.5%. That is strong population-level evidence, but the manuscript does not show that the 19 atomic annotations were produced independently of pilot agent outcomes, nor does it report how often pilot revision changed atom labels. Please clarify the annotation protocol (who labeled, inter-annotator agreement if any) and whether any task was revised after seeing hybrid vs. single-channel pilot scores, so that P1 is not partly reverse-engineered from agent failure.
  3. §4.2 Tables 2–3 and §4.1: Cross-harness results show large model–runtime interactions (Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2% on Claude Code vs 13.2% on Codex CLI; GPT-5.5: 35.1% on Codex CLI vs 14.9% on Claude Code). The paper correctly notes scaffold alignment, but does not control for tool-schema fidelity, prompt wrappers, or max-turn budgets across hosts beyond “thin adapters.” Without a short controlled comparison of what each harness actually exposes (identical tool schemas and turn limits), the “best pairing 41.2%” figure confounds model capability with harness engineering. A minimal schema/budget audit table would make the cross-harness claim interpretable.

Circularity Check

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Empirical CUA benchmark with no derivation-style circularity; absolute PassRates and cheat-inflation gaps are measured outcomes under an explicit protocol, not fitted inputs renamed as predictions.

specific steps
  1. self definitional [§3.1 P1; §4.3 Tables 4–5; text after Table 5]
    "P1 Channel non-substitutability: Task success must require coordinating GUI observation/action with programmatic modifications through CLI/code operations within the same trajectory. … This pattern is consistent with the channel non-substitutability requirement (P1) that admits tasks into WeaveBench. … On WeaveBench, by contrast, the same ablation produces a +31.6pp gap: cooperation is forced by the task specification rather than offered as a per-step convenience"

    Mild and local only: the population claim that the second channel is “genuinely necessary” on WeaveBench is partly guaranteed by the P1 admission filter that selects non-substitutable tasks. The ablation is still an empirical check that annotations hold (single-channel could have worked if P1 were mis-specified), and absolute Hybrid PassRates are independent of this filter. Not a fitted-constant-as-prediction loop; score contribution is minimal.

full rationale

WeaveBench is a task suite plus evaluation protocol, not a first-principles derivation. The load-bearing numbers (best PassRate 41.2%, single-channel ≤3.5%, outcome-only inflation of 10–20 points) are empirical measurements under stated harnesses, a fixed τ=0.8 threshold, and a trajectory-aware judge (Eqs. 1–2 / 3). There is no parameter fit that is later called a prediction, no uniqueness theorem imported from the same authors, and no ansatz smuggled in via self-citation. P1 admits tasks that are intended to require hybrid use; the interface ablation then checks that single-channel pools collapse—an expected design validation, reported as such (“consistent with … P1”), not a hidden reduction of a surprising claim to its definition. Judge–agent family overlap (GPT-5.5 as fixed judge backbone and as a strong agent) is a validity/confound concern for absolute audited rates, not circularity in the derivation-chain sense: the paper does not claim to derive agent failure from the judge’s definition, only to score rollouts under that protocol. Human-reviewed anchors, multi-turn evidence re-fetch, and anti-fabrication prompts further separate the scoring surface from pure self-definition. Overall circularity is negligible.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

4 free parameters · 5 axioms · 4 invented entities

As a benchmark paper, load-bearing content is mostly design choices and evaluation conventions rather than physical free parameters. The central claims rest on human task design (non-substitutability), a fixed PassRate threshold, an LLM judge with confidence cutoffs, and the assumption that deployed harnesses plus a minimal GUI plugin fairly represent hybrid computer use. No new physical entities; invented constructs are the benchmark, judge protocol, and taxonomies.

free parameters (4)
  • PassRate threshold τ
    End-to-end success is defined as st,m ≥ 0.8 (§3.4 Eq. 2). Changing τ would rescale reported PassRates without new experiments.
  • Cheat-flag confidence cutoff 0.85
    Shortcut zeroing requires judge confidence ≥0.85 with verbatim trajectory quotes (Appendix B.3). This threshold is a design choice that gates zero scores.
  • Layer-3 clause aggregation weights (sat=1, partial=0.5)
    Per-deliverable correctness c = (nsat + 0.5 npartial)/ntotal and the six-tier rubric (Appendix B.2) discretize partial credit and cap critical-clause failures.
  • min(mean of 8 dimensions, ddeliv) final score rule
    Equation (1)/(3) forces deliverable correctness to cap process dimensions; this aggregation choice materially shapes Overall and PassRate.
axioms (5)
  • ad hoc to paper P1 channel non-substitutability: task success requires coordinating GUI observation/action with CLI/code modifications in one trajectory.
    Admission criterion §3.1; operationalized via 19 atomic operations (Appendix A.1). Core design axiom of the benchmark.
  • domain assumption P2 long-horizon and P3 cross-application state are necessary properties of the target capability.
    §3.1–3.2; justified by production workflow examples and trajectory statistics (median 76 tool calls, 16 channel switches).
  • domain assumption A trajectory-aware agentic judge with active evidence re-fetch can audit hybrid rollouts more faithfully than outcome-only grading.
    §3.4, Appendix B; supported by ablation Fig. 4 but still an evaluative assumption about LLM judges.
  • domain assumption Deployed CLI-agent runtimes plus a minimal screenshot+pyautogui plugin are a fair hybrid evaluation surface.
    §4.1 harness design; alternative full desktop agent stacks might change absolute PassRates.
  • standard math Standard tool-augmented agent loop (ReAct/Toolformer-style) with fixed max-turn budgets is the right unit of evaluation.
    Cited paradigm §4.1; conventional in agent benchmarks rather than paper-specific math.
invented entities (4)
  • WeaveBench task suite (114 tasks, 8 domains) no independent evidence
    purpose: Provide hybrid non-substitutable long-horizon evaluation instances grounded in real user requests.
    New corpus; independent evidence is the public provenance URLs and pilot validation described, not external prior measurement of the same suite.
  • Trajectory-aware agentic judge with nine cheat patterns no independent evidence
    purpose: Score process+outcome and zero reward-hacking rollouts.
    New evaluation protocol built on Agent-as-a-Judge / G-Eval ideas; falsifiable via human audit agreement, partially reported.
  • 19 atomic operations / six mechanism families for P1 no independent evidence
    purpose: Make channel non-substitutability auditable per task.
    Paper-introduced taxonomy (Appendix A.1); useful annotation scheme without external prior standard.
  • E1–E5 hierarchical failure taxonomy (13 sub-classes) no independent evidence
    purpose: Attribute hybrid CUA failures, including hybrid-specific E4/E5 modes.
    Analysis framework in §4.6 and Appendix F; descriptive of this dataset.

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  title        = {Pith review of: WeaveBench: A Long-Horizon, Real-World Benchmark for Computer-Use Agents with Hybrid Interfaces},
  year         = {2026},
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Computer-use agents (CUAs) increasingly operate in runtimes that combine visual desktop control, command-line execution, code editing, browsers, and external tools. Existing benchmarks, however, often evaluate these interfaces as separable capabilities, leaving long-horizon cross-interface orchestration under-tested. Thus, we introduce WeaveBench, a long-horizon hybrid-interface benchmark with 114 tasks across 8 real-world work domains, grounded in real user requests and publicly verifiable artifacts. Each task requires agents to combine GUI observations/actions with CLI/code operations within a single trajectory. We evaluate these tasks on a real Ubuntu desktop inside deployed CLI-agent runtimes, augmented with a minimal desktop-control plugin. We also propose a companion trajectory-aware judge that inspects deliverables, files, screenshots, logs, and action traces, while detecting shortcut behaviors such as fabricated visual evidence or hard-coded metrics. Across frontier model-runtime pairings, the best PassRate reaches only 41.2%, showing the benchmark remains far from saturated. The trajectory-aware judge further reveals that outcome-only grading substantially overestimates agent performance. Overall, WeaveBench exposes a critical gap in CUA evaluation and provides an effective testbed to measure whether agents can orchestrate GUI, CLI, and code operations across long-horizon real-world tasks.

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