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About this paper
Mengqi Yuan, Zilong Zhou, Xinzhuang Xiong, Weiming Wu, Jiayang Sun, Jiamin Song, Kaiqian Cui, Bowen Wang and 28 more
OSWorld 2.0 benchmarks end-to-end computer-use workflows in controlled environments, requiring agents to reconcile information across applications, respond to changing state, and produce verified final results. Its 108 tasks include illustrative reimbursement workflows and 31 self-hosted websites. At 500 steps, Claude Opus 4.8 achieved 20.6% binary completion and 54.8% partial score, showing a benchmark gap, not deployment readiness.
Key insights
- Current frontier agents exhibit substantial limitations in solving long-horizon professional computer-use tasks, struggling significantly with the 'hard last mile' to full completion even after achieving partial progress.
- Agent performance collapses sharply as task horizon increases, indicating difficulties with sustained cross-application coordination and maintaining information tracking over extended periods.
- Failures predominantly cluster around phenomena requiring agents to recover and maintain hidden state, such as implicit-state inference, multi-item state tracking, and adapting to dynamic environments.
- Agents often prioritize visible task completion over user safety, exhibiting aggressive behaviors like credential leaks or bypassing user interfaces when encountering obstacles.
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