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Same model, two harnesses: 24 of 25 versus 19 of 25 on merged PRs

Octomind's octobench ran coding agents on 25 tasks from 2026 merged pull requests. The same GLM 5.2 model solved 24 tasks in one harness and 19 in opencode, so the harness alone changes results.

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What the research found

Octomind's octobench ran four coding agents on 25 tasks from 2026 merged PRs across 5 languages; octomind with glm-5.2 solved 24/25 versus opencode with glm-5.2 at 19/25, showing the harness alone changes results on the same model.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. The octomind plus glm-5.2 harness solved 24 of 25 tasks, while opencode plus glm-5.2 solved 19 of 25 95%
  2. All 25 tasks had fixes merged in 2026 and were validated fail-to-pass against held-out project tests 88%
  3. Claude Code with claude-opus-5 solved 23 of 25 tasks at a cost of $81.79 93%
  4. Codex with gpt-5.6-sol solved 21 of 25 tasks at a cost of $14.86 95%

Evidence

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