AutomationBench
arXiv cs.AI / 4/22/2026
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Key Points
- Existing software automation benchmarks are often too narrow, failing to cover cross-application coordination, autonomous API discovery, and policy compliance in a single evaluation.
- AutomationBench is introduced as an arXiv benchmark focused on evaluating AI agents’ ability to orchestrate REST-API workflows across multiple business systems.
- The benchmark is based on real workflow patterns (e.g., from Zapier), spanning domains like Sales, Marketing, Operations, Support, Finance, and HR, and includes irrelevant or misleading records.
- Evaluation is programmatic and end-state based, checking whether the agent wrote the correct data into the correct systems, rather than intermediate reasoning steps.
- Current leading AI models perform poorly on AutomationBench, scoring below 10%, highlighting a gap between today’s agentic capabilities and practical business needs.
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