SetupBench: Assessing Software Engineering Agents' Ability to Bootstrap Development Environments

Modern Large Language Model (LLM) agents promise end to end assistance with real-world software tasks, yet existing benchmarks evaluate LLM agents almost exclusively in pre-baked environments where every dependency is pr...

Ethan Shaw
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SetupBench: Assessing Software Engineering Agents' Ability to Bootstrap Development Environments

SetupBench: Assessing Software Engineering Agents' Ability to Bootstrap Development Environments

Original article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09063v1

Modern Large Language Model (LLM) agents promise end to end assistance with real-world software tasks, yet existing benchmarks evaluate LLM agents almost exclusively in pre-baked environments where every dependency is pr...

SetupBench: Assessing Software Engineering Agents' Ability to Bootstrap Development Environments

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