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ClawBench introduces a rigorous evaluation framework that tests AI agents on live production websites rather than static sandboxes, revealing significant gaps in current models' ability to handle complex, multi-step real-world workflows. The study demonstrates that even frontier models struggle with dynamic web environments and detailed form-filling tasks, highlighting the substantial distance remaining before achieving general-purpose autonomous assistants.
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ClawBench: Can AI Agents Complete Everyday Online Tasks?

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arXiv:2604.08523v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents may be able to assist with emails and documents, but can they reliably complete everyday online workflows on real websites? Everyday online tasks offer a realistic yet unsolved testbed for evaluating the next generation of AI agents. To this end, we introduce ClawBench, an evaluation framework comprising 153 everyday online tasks that people need to accomplish regularly in their lives and work, spanning 144 platforms across 15 categories, from completing purchases and booking appointments to submitting job applications. These tasks require capabilities beyond existing benchmarks, such as obtaining relevant information from user-provided documents, navigating multi-step workflows across diverse platforms, and write-heavy operations like filling in many detailed forms correctly. Unlike existing benchmarks that evaluate agents in offline sandboxes with static pages, ClawBench operates on production websites, preserving the full complexity, dynamic nature, and interaction challenges of real-world web environments. An interception layer captures and blocks the final submission request, ensuring safe evaluation without real-world side effects. Our evaluations of 8 frontier models show that both proprietary and open-source models complete only a small portion of these tasks. For example, Claude Sonnet 4.6 achieves only 33.3%, which exposes gaps in current AI agents. Progress on ClawBench brings us closer to AI agents that can function as general-purpose assistants.

Authors:Yuxuan Zhang, Yubo Wang, Yipeng Zhu, Penghui Du, Junwen Miao, Xuan Lu, Zhuofeng Li, Xingwei Qu, Zhengkang Guo, Yuanzhe Shen, Dingjie Song, Han Zhou, Tuney Zheng, Xian Wu, Hao Yu, Songcheng Cai, Yi Lu, Yunzhuo Hao, Minyi Lei, Liang Chen, Kai Zou, Huifeng Yin, Wendong Xu, Dongfu Jiang, Ping Nie, Jiaheng Liu, Wenhu Chen, Kelsey R. Allen

Abstract:AI agents may be able to assist with emails and documents, but can they reliably complete everyday online workflows on real websites? Everyday online tasks offer a realistic yet unsolved testbed for evaluating the next generation of AI agents. To this end, we introduce ClawBench, an evaluation framework comprising 153 everyday online tasks that people need to accomplish regularly in their lives and work, spanning 144 platforms across 15 categories, from completing purchases and booking appointments to submitting job applications. These tasks require capabilities beyond existing benchmarks, such as obtaining relevant information from user-provided documents, navigating multi-step workflows across diverse platforms, and write-heavy operations like filling in many detailed forms correctly. Unlike existing benchmarks that evaluate agents in offline sandboxes with static pages, ClawBench operates on production websites, preserving the full complexity, dynamic nature, and interaction challenges of real-world web environments. An interception layer captures and blocks the final submission request, ensuring safe evaluation without real-world side effects. Our evaluations of 8 frontier models show that both proprietary and open-source models complete only a small portion of these tasks. For example, Claude Sonnet 4.6 achieves only 33.3%, which exposes gaps in current AI agents. Progress on ClawBench brings us closer to AI agents that can function as general-purpose assistants.

Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2604.08523 [cs.CL]

(or arXiv:2604.08523v2 [cs.CL] for this version)

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