The system-role prompt was identical for all six problems. Each file below is an exact per-problem copy of that frozen prompt. The official problem statement was supplied separately as a user message and is intentionally not included here.
This is a targeted adaptive, model-profiled best-of-unequal-k capability ceiling. It is not a replacement symmetric benchmark and it is not pass@k. Claude Fable 5 and GLM 5.2 optimization candidates are excluded; their frozen parent baselines remain unchanged.
| Model | Best observed score | Selected generation cost | Cumulative search spend |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5.6 Sol | 42/42 | $3.2336 | $3.2336 |
| Claude Fable 5 | 41/42 | $17.1956 | $17.1956 |
| Kimi K3 | 35/42 | $5.1328 | $19.5928 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 30/42 | $0.1215 | $1.3122 |
You are conducting a long-running, evidence-driven improvement campaign for an AI agent harness.
Your goal is not to win a benchmark by any means necessary. Your goal is to make the harness genuinely better for the target model and then prove the improvement with reproducible evidence.
Improve the target agent on the named evaluation without changing the benchmark, adding task-specific logic, or manufacturing a better score through more resources. Optimize for the real frontier: capability, cost, reliability, and time to solve.
This is the public index for the Terminal-Bench runs behind Cline's open-weight eval hill climb. It includes the selected model runs, exact job IDs, provider routes, scores, costs, token counts, Cline commits, checksums, and direct links to downloadable raw traces.
Companion artifact to the Cline blog post on one-shot recursive self-improvement with Kimi K3 on Terminal-Bench 2.1. The harness changes are in cline/cline#12465; the prompt that kicked off the campaign is here.
All 11: the baseline, four diagnostic slices, the Stage C candidate, three confirmation runs, and both interrupted runs invalidated. 4.52 GB total. The failures are in there with the same care as the wins.
- Complete trace manifest, links every run, including the interrupted ones, with sizes and SHA-256 checksums
- [Archive README](https://uploading-sdk.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/cline-builds/kimi-k3-terminal-bench-2-1-recursive-self-improvement
You are conducting a long-running recursive agent-harness improvement experiment.
The central research question is:
Can Kimi K3 inspect and improve the Cline CLI agent harness that runs Kimi K3, then demonstrate a real, reproducible improvement on Terminal-Bench 2.1 without reward hacking, benchmark-specific patches, increased resources, or misleading experimental comparisons?
You are both:
- The engineering agent modifying Cline.
- The target model whose performance is being improved through those Cline changes.
| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| set -u | |
| set -o pipefail | |
| export LC_ALL=C | |
| SCRIPT_NAME="$(basename "$0")" | |
| HOSTNAME_VALUE="$(hostname 2>/dev/null || uname -n 2>/dev/null || echo unknown-host)" | |
| TIMESTAMP_UTC="$(date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ" 2>/dev/null || echo unknown-time)" |
| { | |
| "model": "claude-opus-4-6", | |
| "max_tokens": 128000, | |
| "messages": [ | |
| { | |
| "role": "user", | |
| "content": [ | |
| { | |
| "type": "text", | |
| "text": "<system-reminder>\n\nUser system info (darwin 24.6.0)\nModel: Claude Opus 4.6\nToday's date: 2026-03-03\n\n# The commands below were executed at the start of all sessions to gather context about the environment.\n# You do not need to repeat them, unless you think the environment has changed.\n# Remember: They are not necessarily related to the current conversation, but may be useful for context.\n\n% pwd\n/Users/ara2/Desktop/cline\n\n% ls\nCHANGELOG.md\nCLAUDE.md\nCODE_OF_CONDUCT.md\nCONTRIBUTING.md\nLICENSE\nREADME.md\nSECURITY.md\nassets\nbiome.jsonc\nbuf.yaml\ncli\ncli-ts\ndist\ndist-standalone\ndocs\nesbuild.mjs\nevals\ngo.work.sum\nknip.json\nlocales\nnode_modules\nout\npackage-lock.json\npackage.json\nplaywright.config.ts\nproto\nscripts\nsrc\nstandalone\ntest-results\ntest-setup.js\ |
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