WorkSpaceBench
Agent completes 388 tasks in realistic worker file workspaces (20k files) needing cross-file dependency reasoning. Scored against 7,399 rubrics.
Name match assumed: the Qwen3.8-Max card lists 'WorkSpaceBench' without a citation.
In the authors’ words
Workspace learning requires AI agents to identify, reason over, exploit, and update explicit and implicit dependencies among heterogeneous files in a worker's workspace, enabling them to complete both routine and advanced tasks effectively. Despite its importance, existing relevant benchmarks largely evaluate agents on pre-specified or synthesized files with limited real-world dependencies, leaving workspace-level evaluation underexplored. To this end, we introduce Workspace-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on Workspace Learning involving Large-Scale File Dependencies. We construct realistic workspaces with 5 worker profiles, 74 file types, 20,476 files (up to 20GB) and curate 388 tasks, each with its own file dependency graph, evaluated across 7,399 total rubrics that require cross-file retrieval, contextual reasoning, and adaptive decision-making. We further provide Workspace-Bench-Lite, a 100-task subset that preserves the benchmark distribution while reducing evaluation costs by about 70%. We evaluate 4 popular agent harnesses and 7 foundation models. Experimental results show that current agents remain far from reliable workspace learning, where the best reaches only about 60%, substantially below the human result of 80.7%, and the average performance across agents is only 43.3%.
- Level
- University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
- Scored
- Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
- Answers
- Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
Qwen 3.8 Max leads with 67.7% among models released by Aug 2026
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.
The newest model with a score here came out in Aug 2026, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- and 16 more
- 1
Qwen 3.8 Max 67.7%
- 2
Tencent Hy4 preview 60.2%
- 3
Seed2.1 Pro 53%
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 67.7% | Aug 2026 | Model card | |
| 2 | | 60.2% | Aug 2026 | Model card | |
| 3 | | 53% | Jun 2026 | Model card |
2 models have held number one since its release in May 2026
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
3 labs 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.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2026 | 60.2 | WorkspaceBench | |
| 3 Aug 2026 | 67.7 | WorkSpaceBench | |
| 23 Jun 2026 | 53 | Workspace Bench (Total, 100-task OpenClaw setting) |
One system card reports it
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Jun 2026 | | 53 | Workspace Bench, Total, 100-task OpenClaw setting (Table 1) | Capabilities |
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