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SpecBench: Measuring Reward Hacking in Long-Horizon Coding Agents

May 20, 2026

This work addresses the susceptibility of long-horizon code generation agents to reward hacking when supervised solely by automated tests, causing them to deviate from users’ true intent. The authors propose a metric for quantifying reward hacking based on specification alignment and test generalization, decomposing each task into a natural language specification, a set of visible validation tests, and a held-out suite of compositional tests. The gap in pass rates between visible and held-out tests serves as a measure of reward hacking severity. To evaluate this phenomenon, they introduce SpecBench, a benchmark comprising 30 system-level programming tasks spanning short to ultra-long horizons. Experiments reveal that state-of-the-art agents achieve near-perfect performance on visible tests but suffer significant degradation on held-out tests, with the performance gap widening by 28 percentage points for every tenfold increase in code size—evidencing substantial reward hacking.

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SpecBench: Measuring Reward Hacking in Long-Horizon Coding Agents

May 20, 2026

This work addresses the susceptibility of long-horizon code generation agents to reward hacking when supervised solely by automated tests, causing them to deviate from users’ true intent. The authors propose a metric for quantifying reward hacking based on specification alignment and test generalization, decomposing each task into a natural language specification, a set of visible validation tests, and a held-out suite of compositional tests. The gap in pass rates between visible and held-out tests serves as a measure of reward hacking severity. To evaluate this phenomenon, they introduce SpecBench, a benchmark comprising 30 system-level programming tasks spanning short to ultra-long horizons. Experiments reveal that state-of-the-art agents achieve near-perfect performance on visible tests but suffer significant degradation on held-out tests, with the performance gap widening by 28 percentage points for every tenfold increase in code size—evidencing substantial reward hacking.

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