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RoadmapBench

Step 5 Preview 54.3% In use

Agents start from an older version of an open-source repository and implement a roadmap of features from its next real release. The set has 115 tasks from 17 repositories in 5 languages, scored by tests.

The median task changes about 3,700 lines across 51 files. The paper reports a Completion Score for partial progress next to the resolve rate.

In the authors’ words

Coding agents are increasingly deployed in real software development, where a single version iteration requires months of coordinated work across many files. However, most existing benchmarks focus predominantly on single-issue bug fixes from Python repositories, with coarse pass/fail evaluation outcomes, and thus fail to capture long-horizon, multi-target development at real engineering scale. To address this gap, we present RoadmapBench, a benchmark of 115 long-horizon coding tasks grounded in real open-source version upgrades across 17 repositories and 5 programming languages. Each task places the agent on a source-version code snapshot and provides a multi-target roadmap instruction requiring it to implement the functionality introduced in the target version, with a median modification of 3,700 lines across 51 files. We conduct a systematic evaluation on thirteen frontier models and find that even the strongest, Claude-Opus-4.7, resolves only 39.1% of tasks, while the weakest achieves merely 5.2%, in stark contrast to existing bug-fix benchmarks, suggesting that long-horizon software development remains a largely unsolved problem.

Abstract of RoadmapBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Agentic Software Development Across Version Upgrades (arXiv:2605.15846, CC0)
Made by UniPat AI Released May 2026 Building whole projects All tasks public Last in a launch post Sep 2026 Last model added Sep 2026
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Agent task Many steps in a terminal, browser, desktop, app, game or robot.
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Model scored in lab cards
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Launch post lists it, from 1 lab

Step 5 Preview leads with 54.3%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 Step 5 Preview 54.3%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Step 5 Preview 54.3% Sep 2026 Model card

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) Step 5 Preview 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) Step 5 Preview

One lab put it in a launch post in the last six months

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

StepFun
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
20 Sep 2026 Step 5 Preview 54.3 RoadmapBench

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