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📄 ResearchMay 20, 2026

SpecBench: Measuring Reward Hacking in Long-Horizon Coding Agents

As long-horizon coding agents produce more code than any developer can review, oversight collapses onto a single surface: the automated test suite. Reward hacking naturally arises in this setup, as the agent optimizes for passing tests while deviating from the users true goal. We study this reward h...

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http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21384v1