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Benchmarks: Terminal-Bench 2.0

Same pass rate, lower cost — measuring Boost compression against real agent capability.

TL;DR

We ran Terminal-Bench v2 with and without Boost: no harm to task pass rate, and a ~10% reduction in estimated cost.

To measure whether Boost helps agents without hurting their ability to complete real work, we ran Terminal-Bench 2.0 — a benchmark of hard, human-verified terminal tasks in containerized environments — with and without Boost enabled.

Setup

Benchmark Terminal-Bench 2.0 (89 tasks)
Evaluated 81 tasks — 8 tasks excluded due to infrastructure constraints in our Harbor evaluation environment
Agent Claude Code
Model Claude Haiku 4.5 (us.anthropic.claude-haiku-4-5-20251001-v1:0) via Amazon Bedrock
Baseline Agent runs commands with no Boost hooks
Boost Same agent and model, with Boost hooks installed ((cmd) | boost rewrite + filters)

Harbor Hub results

Baseline Vs Boost

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Task success (primary metric)

Success rate preserved

Task pass rate no change

25 / 81 tasks passed

Baseline
30.9%
Boost
30.9%

Boost preserved task completion on this benchmark: identical pass rate to the baseline.

Cost and token efficiency

Aggregate across all 81 tasks. Bars are relative to the baseline (=100%).

Key savings

Estimated cost (USD) -11.9%
Baseline
$29.04
Boost
$25.57

On long-horizon agent benchmarks, most tokens are reasoning and context — not raw tool stdout — so aggregate input-token savings are modest even when per-command compression is much larger. The ~12% cost reduction on the same pass rate is the more meaningful signal: Boost makes the same agent work cheaper without changing how many tasks it completes.

For day-to-day development, per-command savings are much larger. In a typical 30-minute session (~60 shell commands), Boost reduces context from tool output by roughly 91% on common workflows (git, test runners, linters, Docker).


Evaluations summary

Eval Baseline With Boost
Terminal-Bench 2.0 pass rate (81 tasks, Claude Haiku 4.5) 30.9% 30.9%
Estimated cost $29.04 $25.57 (−11.9%)
Typical dev session tool-output tokens (internal estimate) ~189K ~16K (~−91%)

Terminal-Bench runs used Claude Code with Claude Haiku 4.5 on Amazon Bedrock. Eight of 89 Terminal-Bench 2.0 tasks were excluded from this evaluation due to infrastructure limitations in our Harbor environment. Per-command token savings (60–90%) come from measured filter performance on real tool output; agent-benchmark aggregates include model reasoning tokens and understate per-command compression.