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SWE Refactor Bench: Can Coding Agents Complete a Long-Horizon, Whole-Repository Stack Migration?

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TL;DR - SWE Refactor Bench evaluates coding agents on 20 long-horizon, whole-repository migrations using checks for both migration completeness and behavioral correctness. Frontier models succeed on only 5.4% of runs, highlighting major reliability gaps in autonomous stack migration.

  • The three-stage protocol combines migration audits, fixed behavioral tests, and targeted tests generated by six independent coding agents.
  • Only 28 of 520 runs passed all stages, and 13 of the 20 migration tasks had no accepted solution.
  • Of the 340 runs that completed the migration, 58% passed 99% of fixed checks, but only 26% passed every check.
  • Performance varied sharply by task: agents scored 31.4 on build-toolchain rewrites versus 5.6 on language rewrites; the best model scored 47.0/100.

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SWE Refactor Bench: Can Coding Agents Complete a Long-Horizon, Whole-Repository Stack Migration?

arXiv cs.CL Deyao Hong, Yizhe Chi, Wenyi Li, Xiaoqiu Wang, Mingju Gao, Kaisen Yang, Bingxiang He, Youjie Zheng, Calvin Xiao, Qinhuai Na 2026-08-24 arXiv:2608.23564
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TL;DR - SWE Refactor Bench evaluates coding agents on 20 long-horizon, whole-repository migrations using checks for both migration completeness and behavioral correctness. Frontier models succeed on only 5.4% of runs, highlighting major reliability gaps in autonomous stack migration.

  • The three-stage protocol combines migration audits, fixed behavioral tests, and targeted tests generated by six independent coding agents.
  • Only 28 of 520 runs passed all stages, and 13 of the 20 migration tasks had no accepted solution.
  • Of the 340 runs that completed the migration, 58% passed 99% of fixed checks, but only 26% passed every check.
  • Performance varied sharply by task: agents scored 31.4 on build-toolchain rewrites versus 5.6 on language rewrites; the best model scored 47.0/100.
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