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A Hundred Engineering Tickets Resist a Clean Sweep

ExpertCrowd-SWE uses sealed solutions, partial-credit graders and must-pass blockers across 87 unfamiliar open-source projects.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-11-12-004
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Summary

ExpertCrowd-SWE uses sealed solutions, partial-credit graders and must-pass blockers across 87 unfamiliar open-source projects.

ExpertCrowd-SWE contains 100 multi-file engineering tasks written by practicing engineers against pinned commits in 87 open-source projects and 11 languages. Each task has a sealed reference patch and a weighted grader with executable checks, partial credit and blockers for changes a maintainer would refuse. Across 3,495 scored runs, the leading evaluated agent averaged 67.3% and the next 63.7%, without a statistically significant gap. No task was solved fully by every model, and 80 tasks lacked a model that achieved full credit on all five runs.

Why it matters

ExpertCrowd-SWE uses sealed solutions, partial-credit graders and must-pass blockers across 87 unfamiliar open-source projects.

Limits and context

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Key claims

  1. ExpertCrowd-SWE uses sealed solutions, partial-credit graders and must-pass blockers across 87 unfamiliar open-source projects.

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Sources

  1. arXiv:2611.13246v1arXiv / Cornell University · primary research

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