[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-rigorbench-tests-how-ai-coding-agents-work-not-just-what-they-build":10,"sections":34},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":29,"feedback":33,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":33,"total_tokens":33},3172,"rigorbench-tests-how-ai-coding-agents-work-not-just-what-they-build","RigorBench Tests How AI Coding Agents Work, Not Just What They Build","A new open-source benchmark scores AI coding agents on process discipline — planning, verification, and recovery — not just whether their code passes tests.","A new benchmark called RigorBench shifts the evaluation of AI coding agents from output correctness to engineering process quality.\n\nResearchers introduced RigorBench to address a blind spot in how agentic coding harnesses — tools like Agent-Skills, Superpowers, and Agent-Rigor that layer on top of large language models — get evaluated. Most existing benchmarks ask one question: did the code work? RigorBench asks five: did the agent plan, verify, recover gracefully, know when to quit, and avoid breaking existing builds? These pillars feed into a composite RigorScore. The team tested 30 tasks across categories with names that tell the story — \"Doom Loop Gauntlet\" for agents stuck in unproductive cycles, \"Know When to Fold\" for appropriate abstention.\n\nThe results make a case that process matters independent of outcomes. Agents scored on process discipline averaged 41% higher process quality scores, and that discipline correlated with a 17% lift in downstream outcome correctness — suggesting that an agent that plans and verifies is not just tidier but more likely to actually solve the problem. That's the number the field has been missing: a quantified link between how a model codes and whether it succeeds.\n\nThe benchmark, scoring rubrics, and trajectory analysis tools are released as open-source, which means the community can stress-test these claims — and probably will, given that AI coding benchmarks have a long history of gaming once leaderboards appear.","[\"ai\",\"dev-tools\",\"benchmarks\",\"coding-agents\"]","2026-07-01T04:00:00.000Z","2026-07-01T08:57:05.502Z","2026-07-01T08:57:08.414Z","published",null,[],"ai",[24,26,27,28],"dev-tools","benchmarks","coding-agents",[30],{"name":31,"url":32},"arXiv cs.AI","https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F2606.22678",0,{"sections":35},[36,40,45,50,55,60,65,70,75,79,84,88,93,98],{"name":37,"slug":24,"count":38,"latest_published_at":39},"AI",2590,"2026-07-16T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":41,"slug":42,"count":43,"latest_published_at":44},"Security","security",294,"2026-07-15T19:59:48.000Z",{"name":46,"slug":47,"count":48,"latest_published_at":49},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":51,"slug":52,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"Policy","policy",158,"2026-07-16T00:02:48.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Hardware","hardware",122,"2026-07-14T19:46:26.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",93,"2026-07-13T13:20:48.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Software","software",70,"2026-07-13T19:52:25.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Science","science",66,"2026-07-10T10:29:37.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":26,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Dev Tools",59,"2026-07-07T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":82,"latest_published_at":87},"Startups","startups","2026-06-29T20:55:50.000Z",{"name":89,"slug":90,"count":91,"latest_published_at":92},"General","general",29,"2026-07-10T22:28:58.000Z",{"name":94,"slug":95,"count":96,"latest_published_at":97},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":99,"slug":100,"count":101,"latest_published_at":102},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]