When Terminal-Agent Training Stalls: Demystifying Data Generation and Verification Challenge

arXiv cs.AIOctober 5, 2026en

arXiv:2610.02405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Using a frontier model like Claude Opus as a meta-agent to generate terminal tasks and verifiers for RL training is increasingly common. Yet a runnable Docker image and executable test suite do not guarantee a faithful end-to-end pipeline for terminal agent training. We present a meta-agent pipeline motivated by this gap, diagnosing three classes of failure: benchmark invalidity, harness brittleness, and reward misalignment. Prompt redesign and context extension raise baseline solvability 5.6 times, but a 9B model saturates at 81.3% mean pass@2 within 20 steps on Claude Opus-generated tasks. Adding hard tasks reduces mean pass@2 to 20.6% withou

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