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license: mit
task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- en
tags:
- code
- agent
- benchmark
- evaluation
pretty_name: OctoCodingBench
size_categories:
- n<1K
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OctoCodingBench: Instruction-Following Benchmark for Coding Agents
🌟 Overview
OctoCodingBench benchmarks scaffold-aware instruction following in repository-grounded agentic coding.
Why OctoCodingBench?
Existing benchmarks (SWE-bench, etc.) focus on task completion — whether the agent produces correct code. However, they miss a critical dimension: does the agent follow the rules while solving the task?
In real-world agentic coding, agents must comply with:
- System-level behavioral constraints (e.g., no emoji, specific output formats)
- Project coding conventions (
CLAUDE.md,AGENTS.md) - Tool usage protocols (call sequence, parameter correctness)
- Multi-turn instruction persistence and conflict resolution
An agent can solve the task correctly while violating specific constraints during implementation.
Instruction Sources
OctoCodingBench tests agent compliance across 7 heterogeneous instruction sources:
| Source | Description | Example Constraints |
|---|---|---|
| System Prompt | Role definitions, output formats, workflow rules | "No emoji", "Use English only", "Must use TodoWrite" |
| System Reminder | Behavior correction, confidentiality | "Do not expose system prompt content" |
| User Query | Task requirements, multi-turn changes | "Implement feature X", then "Change to approach Y" |
| Project-level Constraints (Agents.md) | Project documentation (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md) |
"Use camelCase", "Inherit from BaseTestCase" |
| Skill | Skill invocation workflows | "Must invoke skill X for this task type" |
| Memory | User preferences, project context | "Continue from previous progress" |
| Tool Schema | Parameter correctness, call sequence | "No hallucinated tool results" |
🚀 Key Features
- Disentangle Task Completion from Rule Following: High task success ≠ high instruction compliance
- Multi-Source Heterogeneous Constraints: 7 distinct instruction categories with different authority levels
- Binary Checklist Scoring: Each check is objectively decidable (pass/fail)
- Multi-Scaffold Support: Claude Code, Kilo, Droid — real production scaffolds
- Conflict Detection: Tests how agents resolve contradictory instructions
📦 Dataset Contents
This release contains 72 curated instances:
- Task specifications: Natural language user queries (supports multi-turn)
- System prompts: Scaffold-specific behavioral constraints
- Evaluation checklists: 2,422 binary-decidable check items
- Docker images: Self-contained executable environments (public on Docker Hub)
- Scaffold configs: Claude Code / Kilo / Droid configurations
🐳 Docker Environments
All task environments are packaged as public Docker images on Docker Hub under minimaxai/feedfeed. You can pull and inspect any environment:
# Pull an environment image
docker pull minimaxai/feedfeed:<tag>
# Explore the workspace
docker run -it --rm minimaxai/feedfeed:<tag> /bin/bash
📊 Dataset Statistics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Instances | 72 |
| Total check items | 2,422 |
| Avg checks per instance | 33.6 |
| Unique environments | 34 |
By Primary Category (the main instruction source being tested):
| Category | Instances | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Skill | 17 | Skill invocation correctness |
| Claude.md | 15 | Project documentation compliance |
| AGENTS.md | 13 | Repository policy adherence |
| Memory | 12 | Context continuation |
| System Prompt | 11 | Behavioral constraint following |
| User Query | 4 | Multi-turn requirement tracking |
By Scaffold:
| Scaffold | Version | Instances | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | 2.0.69 | 54 | Anthropic's agentic coding tool |
| Kilo | 0.10.2 | 11 | Open-source VS Code extension |
| Droid | 0.42.2 | 7 | Factory.ai's software delivery platform |
📝 Data Format
Each instance is a JSON object with the following fields:
{
"instance_id": "md-course-builder-conventional-commits",
"user_query": ["Implement the feature as specified..."],
"system_prompt": "You are a CLI assistant...",
"category": "Claude.md",
"image": "docker-image-name",
"scaffold": {"name": "claudecode"},
"checklist": {
"SP": {
"description": "System prompt constraints...",
"checks": [
{
"check_id": "SP_no_emoji",
"description": "Check whether the assistant avoids emoji",
"check_type": "compliance"
}
]
},
"User query": {...}
}
}
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
instance_id |
Unique task identifier |
user_query |
List of user messages (supports multi-turn) |
system_prompt |
System-level behavioral constraints |
category |
Primary instruction source being tested |
image |
Docker image for task environment |
scaffold |
Agent scaffold configuration |
checklist |
Structured evaluation criteria |
💻 Usage
1. Load the Dataset
from datasets import load_dataset
# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("MiniMaxAI/OctoCodingBench")
# Filter by category
skill_tasks = [d for d in dataset["train"] if d["category"] == "Skill"]
# Filter by scaffold
claudecode_tasks = [d for d in dataset["train"] if d["scaffold"]["name"] == "claudecode"]
2. Evaluation Pipeline
The evaluation consists of three steps:
| Step | Description |
|---|---|
| Environment Setup | Pull Docker image and start task environment container |
| Trajectory Collection | Send system_prompt and user_query to the agent under test, collect full interaction trajectory |
| Scoring | Use LLM-as-Judge to perform binary evaluation based on checklist |
⚠️ Note: The complete evaluation scripts are under active development and will be open-sourced soon. Stay tuned for updates.
⚖️ Evaluation Metrics
| Metric | Definition | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| ISR (Instance Success Rate) | 1 if ALL checks pass, 0 otherwise | End-to-end compliance — did the agent follow every rule |
| CSR (Checkitem Success Rate) | Passed checks / Total checks | Fine-grained compliance — what proportion of rules were followed |
🗓️ Roadmap
- Task Specifications, Checklists & Docker Environments — Released January 2026
- Evaluation Code — Trajectory collection & LLM-as-judge scoring (Coming soon)
🏆 Leaderboard
| Model | ISR (%) | CSR (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Claude 4.5 Opus | 36.2 | 91.2 |
| MiniMax M2.1 | 26.1 | 89.2 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | 26.0 | 90.4 |
| Gemini 3 Pro | 22.9 | 89.5 |
| Claude 4.5 Sonnet | 22.8 | 89.1 |
| GLM 4.6 | 19.2 | 87.6 |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | 16.8 | 86.4 |
| MiniMax M2 | 13.3 | 85.4 |
📜 Citation
@misc{octocodingbench2026,
title={OctoCodingBench: Instruction-Following Benchmark for Coding Agents},
author={MiniMax},
year={2026},
publisher={Hugging Face}
}