Turning Intent into Specifications: A Benchmark and an Interactive User-Assistant Agent
Today's agents are highly effective at implementing well-scoped software design plans, but user intent is often vague and admits multiple equally valid solutions. In this paper, we introduce SpecBench, a new benchmark for evaluating an agent's ability to translate user intent into a structured, executable specification that aligns with user preferences. The agent is given access to past user conversations and may interact with the user for a fixed number of rounds to ask clarifying questions. We find that existing agents exhibit two extreme behaviors: they either (i) struggle to collaborate proactively with users, entering implementation mode too quickly while overestimating their underst...
| Authors | Hao Wang, Ligong Han, Kai Xu et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.HC |
| Published | 13 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 13 May 2026 |
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