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FeatureBench: Benchmarking Agentic Coding for Complex Feature Development

arXiv 2602.10975 ↗First posted 11 Feb 2026cs.SE cs.AIcited by 30

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Software engineering coding agents

Abstract (arXiv)

Agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in the software industry, contributing code as collaborators or even autonomous developers. As their presence grows, it becomes important to assess the current boundaries of their coding abilities. Existing agentic coding benchmarks, however, cover a limited task scope, e.g., bug fixing within a single pull request (PR), and often rely on non-executable evaluations or lack an automated approach for continually updating the evaluation coverage. To address such issues, we propose FeatureBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate agentic coding performance in end-to-end, feature-oriented software development. FeatureBench incorporates an execution-based evaluation protocol and a scalable test-driven method that automatically derives tasks from code repositories with minimal human effort. By tracing from unit tests along a dependency graph, our approach can identify feature-level coding tasks spanning multiple commits and PRs scattered across the development timeline, while ensuring the proper functioning of other features after the separation. Using this framework, we curated 200 challenging evaluation tasks and 3825 executable environments from 24 open-source repositories in the first version of our benchmark. Empirical evaluation reveals that the state-of-the-art agentic model, such as Claude 4.5 Opus, which achieves a 74.4% resolved rate on SWE-bench, succeeds on only 11.0% of tasks, opening new opportunities for advancing agentic coding. Moreover, benefiting from our automated task collection toolkit, FeatureBench can be easily scaled and updated over time to mitigate data leakage. The inherent verifiability of constructed environments also makes our method potentially valuable for agent training.

Key facts. Cited by 30 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Software engineering coding agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 21 of its 31 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 11 Feb 2026.

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  5. 2025R2E-Gym: Procedural Environments and Hybrid Verifiers for Scaling Open-Weights SWE Agents9 Apr
  6. 2024Training Software Engineering Agents and Verifiers with SWE-Gym30 Dec
  7. 2024OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents23 Jul

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  3. 2023SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?cited by 3,193
  4. 2024LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Codecited by 1,906
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  6. 2024MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineeringcited by 429
  7. 2025PaperBench: Evaluating AI's Ability to Replicate AI Researchcited by 286
  8. 2025Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers in Machine Learningcited by 67
  9. 2024FullStack Bench: Evaluating LLMs as Full Stack Coderscited by 56
  10. 2024Commit0: Library Generation from Scratchcited by 50
  11. 2024Prompting Large Language Models to Tackle the Full Software Development Lifecycle: A Case Studycited by 40
  12. 2025SWE-Flow: Synthesizing Software Engineering Data in a Test-Driven Mannercited by 18
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  1. 2026SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Taskscited by 24
  2. 2026Agent-as-a-Router: Agentic Model Routing for Coding Taskscited by 10
  3. 2026From Question Answering to Task Completion: A Survey on Agent System and Harness Designcited by 9
  4. 2026Agent psychometrics: Task-level performance prediction in agentic coding benchmarkscited by 8
  5. 2026SWE-Milestone: Evaluating AI Agents on Continuous Software Evolutioncited by 6
  6. 2026Code Review Agent Benchmarkcited by 4
  7. 2026Can LLM Agents Respond to Disasters? Benchmarking Heterogeneous Geospatial Reasoning in Emergency Operationscited by 4
  8. 2026SWE-Cycle: Benchmarking Code Agents across the Complete Issue Resolution Cyclecited by 4
  9. 2026RoadmapBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Agentic Software Development Across Version Upgradescited by 4
  10. 2026Can LLM Agents Be CFOs? Benchmarking Long-Horizon Resource Allocation in an Uncertain Enterprise Environmentcited by 3
  11. 2026ATM: CID-Brokered Pre-Write Admission for Multi-Agent Code Co-Synthesiscited by 3
  12. 2026Same Model, Different Harness: Different Coding-Agent Resultscited by 3
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  1. 2026CodeSpec: Dual Executable Specifications for Agentic Long-Horizon Feature Developmentcited by 2
  2. 2026LoopsBench: From Harness Engineering to Loop Engineering in Coding Agent Evaluationcited by 2
  3. 2026Insights Generator: Systematic Corpus-Level Trace Diagnostics for LLM Agentscited by 1
  4. 2026Claw-Anything: Benchmarking Always-On Personal Assistants with Broader Access to User's Digital Worldcited by 1
  5. 2026MindForge: Teaching Small Language Models Whole-Life-Cycle Software Engineering via Source-Free Program Synthesiscited by 1
  6. 2026Change2Task: From Repository Changes to Executable Coding Agent Tasks and Environmentscited by 1
  7. 2026Active-SWE: Benchmarking Coding Agents for Proactive Bug Fixing without Issue Reportscited by 1
  8. 2026Harbor Adapters and Harbor-Index: Infrastructure and a Curated Meta-Dataset for Large-Scale Agentic Evaluationcited by 1
  9. 2026Scaling Human-AI Coding Collaboration Requires a Governable Consensus Layercited by 0
  10. 2026Can Coding Agents Implement Missed Compiler Optimizations? Evaluating LLM Agents on LLVM Peephole Optimizationscited by 0
  11. 2026PERFOPT-Bench: Evaluating Coding Agents on Software Performance Optimizationcited by 0
  12. 2026BulkPR-Bench: Benchmarking Queue-Level Governance of Interacting Pull Requestscited by 0
  13. 2026Scaffold-Mediated Post-Training: Co-Evolving Model Parameters and Procedural Scaffold Graphscited by 0
  14. 2026SWE-Serve: Benchmarking Agentic Engineering For Production Inference Servingcited by 0
  15. 2026LoLBench: Evaluating Coding Agents with Long-Horizon Proposals on Large Software Systemscited by 0
  16. 2026Mid-Harness: Scaling Actions Between Model and Harness for Terminal Agentscited by 0
  17. 2026SWE-Journey: Towards More Realistic Evaluation of Coding Assistants through Long-Horizon, Multi-Turn Interactioncited by 0
  18. 2026Chronos Enables Code Agents to Reason over Software Evolutioncited by 0

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