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Same bug, two IDs: an open RL dataset shares 15% of CyberGym's bugs, and a plain ID join misses 38% of them

Raimondas Lencevicius — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:57:34 +0000

Open RL environments are great for research. They also open another route for benchmark overlap. Here is a small, reproducible case, plus one pitfall that will bite anyone checking for it.

(Short version: this does not show that any reported score is inflated; caveats below.)

The finding

Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-RL-oss, a set of open RL environments. Its cyber config has 1,000 tasks in which an agent must craft an input that triggers a specific known bug in real open-source code. CyberGym is a benchmark for the same skill on 1,507 bugs.

Both draw on ARVO, a public collection of reproducible OSS-Fuzz bugs: 1,368 of CyberGym's tasks come from ARVO, and the rest are newer bugs taken from OSS-Fuzz directly. So I checked the overlap:

223 of CyberGym's 1,507 tasks (14.8%) are bugs in the MiMo cyber set. They correspond to 278 of its 1,000 tasks.
As a check that these are the same crashes: for 215 of the 223, the crash type and function in MiMo's prompt match CyberGym's ground-truth sanitizer report. For same-project pairs of different bugs, that happens 7.7% of the time.

What this does not show: that any reported score is inflated. The task rows contain no reference PoCs. In the 26 of the 1,000 task Docker images I sampled, the task-specific files are just the vulnerable binary and source (plus a fixed build in 5, see below), and none outside the source tarball is named like a PoC. I didn't list the files in the other 974 images, or look inside the source trees. I don't know whether or how these tasks were used to train the MiMo-V2.6 models. The tech report's RL experiments on these released environments (§7.2, Table 6) evaluate cyber on its in-house MiMo Cyber Bench (mini), not CyberGym. The count also doesn't cover every overlap: 223 counts identical OSS-Fuzz issues only. 20 more CyberGym tasks are separate issues related to a MiMo bug, by a shared fix commit or an identical crash signature (10 of them through two signatures that are common in one project); I list them but don't count them.

What it does mean: if you RL-train on this config and then report CyberGym, about one in seven test bugs is one your model practised on.

Is that more than chance? All of CyberGym's ARVO tasks come from ARVO's first release (4,993 bugs), and 710 of MiMo's distinct bugs fall in that pool. A uniform random draw of 710 bugs would share about 195 ± 11 with CyberGym. I see 219: z = 2.2, one-sided p = 0.015, so modestly above chance. Drawing within each OSS-Fuzz project instead gives 199 ± 9 (z = 2.2, p = 0.017), so it isn't just both sets favouring the same projects. The other 4 of the 223 are in CyberGym's newer OSS-Fuzz slice. Some overlap is what you get when neither set is filtered against the other. The modest excess could come from both sets favouring similar bugs within a project; I don't know, and it doesn't show how either set chose its bugs.

The task images

Each task ships as a Docker image, and Docker Hub lists every image's build steps. In 135 of the 1,000 images, the build also copies a second binary, fix_binary, which by its name is built from the fixed code. An agent that could read it could compare it with the vulnerable build to find the fix. These are exactly the 135 tasks whose ID is also a CyberGym arvo: task ID. None of the other 865 has one. That includes the other 139 overlapping tasks, which carry the bug's new tracker ID while CyberGym uses the old one (explained in the next section; not the same 139 as the plain ID join there), so the pattern follows the ID, not the bug. All 135 are already among the 278 overlapping tasks, so this adds no overlap.

Fixed builds are a common grading input for this kind of task: CyberGym, for example, counts a PoC only if it crashes the vulnerable build and not the fixed one. In the 26 images I listed (5 of them with a fixed build), the grader inside the image doesn't use it: it is the same file in all 26, and the only binary it names is the vulnerable one. I didn't read the grader in the other 130 images with a fixed build. The fixed build sits in a root-only directory, and the agent's files belong to a non-root agent user, so the images look meant for a non-root agent. But the image doesn't set which user the agent runs as, and I didn't check what runs outside the image. If you use these images, run the agent as a non-root user. I don't know why these 135 were built differently, and I've asked the dataset authors. This doesn't show that these tasks were picked because they are in CyberGym: of the 445 tasks with old IDs, the 135 with a CyberGym ID are not significantly above chance (128 ± 7.5 expected within projects, z = 0.9, p = 0.19; 122 ± 9 under a uniform draw, z = 1.5, p = 0.08). Nor does it show that anything used the fixed build.

The pitfall: bugs with two IDs

The obvious check, matching bug numbers across the two ID lists, finds 139 of the 223 CyberGym tasks. That is only 62% of the overlap. (4 of the 139 match only if you ignore CyberGym's oss-fuzz: prefix.)

OSS-Fuzz moved to a new issue tracker and its bugs got new IDs, so the same bug can be arvo_54839 or arvo_42519792. CyberGym's ARVO tasks use old IDs, while MiMo mixes both (445 old, 555 new). You need ARVO's old→new mapping (arvo/oss_fuzz_mappings.csv) to match them.

The same translation shows that the 1,000 MiMo cyber tasks cover 836 distinct bugs: 164 appear twice, once under each ID.

A 13-gram filter catches none of it

A common decontamination step drops a training item if it shares a 13-word sequence with a benchmark item. I ran that filter, comparing MiMo's full task prompts with CyberGym's vulnerability descriptions. It flags none of the 278 overlapping MiMo tasks, and none of the other 722. For the 223 shared bugs, the two texts share at most 5 words in a row (median 2). A looser 8-word filter flags 10 tasks, all through the same unrelated CyberGym description (it shares a long C++ type name with them), never their own bug.

That is not surprising. MiMo's one-line crash spec (sanitizer, crash type, function, file) looks taken from a sanitizer report. CyberGym's description is an LLM rephrasing of the fix commit's message (CyberGym paper, §3.3). Even against CyberGym's own sanitizer reports, which agents see only at higher difficulty levels, only 6 of the 223 shared bugs share a 13-word sequence with their own bug's report, through long C++ signatures and file paths. (I compared each bug with its own report; I didn't run a filter against all 1,507 reports.) Same bug, mostly different words. I only tested exact word n-grams. Fuzzy or identifier-based matching might catch part of it: for 61 of the 219 shared bugs where MiMo's prompt names a function, CyberGym's description names the same one.

How this relates to CyberGym's own contamination check

CyberGym's authors do test for contamination: for four models, they split the benchmark by whether a bug was disclosed before or after the model's knowledge cutoff, and find no significant difference (§4). That test is designed around pretraining cutoffs. RL environments built from the same bugs are a separate route, and an ID-level check finds them directly.

The same pitfall in two more pairs

I ran the same kind of check on two more pairs. Both are in the repo.

Two benchmarks: SEC-bench vs CyberGym. SEC-bench added 100 OSS-Fuzz bugs to its dataset in November 2025. It names them by their new tracker IDs, while CyberGym's ARVO tasks use the old ones. A plain ID join finds 3 shared bugs. After translation it is 33 of the 100, all with the same fix. Two of SEC-bench's CVE instances also share a fix with a CyberGym task, and one fix covers two CyberGym tasks: 35 SEC-bench instances and 36 CyberGym tasks in all.

Benchmarks sharing bugs is not a defect, and within each project the overlap is consistent with chance (z = 0.6, p = 0.31). But results on the shared bugs are not independent evidence. CyberGym also ships each task's fix patch, which for these bugs contains SEC-bench's gold patch.
The text-filter result depends on which text you compare against. Against CyberGym's descriptions, a 13-gram filter flags none of the 35 shared instances. Against CyberGym's sanitizer reports, the same kind of text SEC-bench ships, it flags 29 of the 35 (after dropping sanitizer boilerplate), plus 40 of SEC-bench's 265 other instances.

An SWE training set: SWE-rebench-V2. SWE-rebench-V2 is an open set of 32,079 training tasks built from GitHub pull requests. 348 of them are the same PR at the same base commit as a task in Multi-SWE-bench, SWE-PolyBench or SWE-bench Multilingual: 5.1%, 11.3% and 4.0% of those benchmarks.

Here a text filter works. V2 keeps each PR's original issue text, so a 13-gram filter flags 347 of the 348. For the companion V2-PRs set, where an LLM writes the problem statements, none of the 20 overlapping PRs shares a 13-word sequence with its benchmark task (the longest shared run is 6 words).
Names cause a smaller version of the ID problem: SWE-bench Multilingual stores repo names in lowercase, so an exact name join misses all 12 of its overlaps.
V2 doesn't claim to exclude these benchmarks. Multi-SWE-bench PRs appear in V2 at about the same rate as PRs that Multi-SWE-bench's own pipeline discarded (83 vs 77.4 ± 4.1 expected, z = 1.4; one-sided p = 0.93 for a shortfall), though that test has little power.
V2's authors replied the same day. They had excluded the original SWE-bench's repos and did not explicitly filter against these benchmarks. They added a warning to the dataset card that links to the overlap lists, so users can filter before training.

Takeaways

When training data and a benchmark come from the same upstream source, check overlap on source IDs (bug IDs, fix commits, PR plus base commit), not only text. A 13-gram filter against the benchmark's task descriptions caught none of the overlap in the MiMo and SEC-bench cases, and nearly all of it for SWE-rebench-V2, where both sides keep the original issue text.
Normalize IDs first. Upstream systems get renumbered, and repo names change case.
Compare against a chance baseline, and hold the project mix fixed: SEC-bench vs CyberGym looks above chance under a uniform draw (z = 2.1, p = 0.025) but not within projects (z = 0.6, p = 0.31). For MiMo vs CyberGym, the modest excess stays either way.

Everything is reproducible with one uv run per case, from pinned dataset revisions and image digests. The exception is Docker Hub's build steps, which can only be read from current tags; their digests are recorded. The repo has the overlap lists and filtered splits for all three cases, including a 594-task MiMo cyber split filtered against CyberGym only, not against SEC-bench, which shares 15 bugs with the MiMo cyber set: https://github.com/raimondasl/agentleak

I raised each case with the maintainers first: on the MiMo dataset's discussion page (https://huggingface.co/datasets/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-RL-oss/discussions/6), in a SEC-bench issue (https://github.com/SEC-bench/SEC-bench/issues/4) and on SWE-rebench-V2's discussion page (https://huggingface.co/datasets/nebius/SWE-rebench-V2/discussions/5). SWE-rebench-V2's authors replied the same day and added the warning to their card; I'll add any other replies here.

69% of my coding agent's "done" claims weren't. Here is the gate I put in front of them.

Raimondas Lencevicius — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:35:48 +0000

"Done. All 48 tests pass and the auth refactor is complete."

I have read that sentence hundreds of times, and until recently I mostly believed it. Then I ran a script over my Claude Code transcripts that, for every turn that ended with a sentence like that, asks two questions: did a test command run after the last edit, and did it exit 0?

591 sessions. 516 turns that ended with a completion claim. 69% had no passing test run behind them. Of the 516: 31% had a passing test run after the last edit; 37% had a passing run and then more edits; 31% had no test run in that turn at all; and under 1% ended on a failing run. (Each share is rounded, so the four add to 99.)

Update, 2026-09-25: those numbers came from isitdone 0.2.0 on 2026-09-07. Recounted with isitdone 0.8.0, whose claim and turn detection is stricter, the same transcripts give 495 claims and **65%* without a passing test run behind them: 173 verified, 174 stale, 145 with no test run, 3 ending on a failing run. The argument does not change; with today's tool the headline figure is 65%.*

I don't think the agent is lying. I think the workflow has no gate at the exact moment the claim is made, and a sentence is cheap.

What a gate has to be

I tried the obvious fixes first. A line in the instructions file ("always run the tests before saying done") works until the context gets long. A pre-commit hook fires too late: the claim has already been made, and I have already moved on. CI is later still.

The gate has to sit where the claim happens, and it has to have a few properties:

At the moment of the claim. Not at commit time, not in CI. When the agent tries to end its turn.
On the exact working tree. Not the last commit, not the tree from four edits ago.
With the repository's own commands. npm test, pytest, cargo test, whatever the project already uses. No second opinion from a model.
Unable to loop forever. A gate that can brick the agent gets uninstalled within a day.

The Stop hook

Every serious coding agent now has some version of a hook that runs when the agent finishes responding: Stop in Claude Code, Codex CLI, Qwen Code, Goose and Factory Droid, stop in Cursor, AfterAgent in Gemini CLI, agentStop in Copilot CLI. The hook receives a small JSON payload (session id, working directory, usually the agent's final message) and can answer "block", with a reason the agent will read.

isitdone is that hook. One command installs it:

npx isitdone init

When the agent tries to stop, it detects the project's checks, runs them on the working tree, and if anything fails it answers "block" with the actual failure output:

isitdone: NOT DONE. 1 check failed on the current working tree (attempt 1/3).
You claimed: "All 48 tests pass and the auth refactor is complete."

  npm run typecheck  PASS
  npm test           FAIL  1 failed, 47 passed

--- npm test (last 24 lines) ---
✖ is case-insensitive about the scheme
  AssertionError: null !== 'abc'

The agent reads that, fixes the test, and tries to stop again. After three blocked attempts the hook lets the agent stop and tells me why, so it can never trap a session. Malformed input, a broken config, an internal error: all of those allow the stop. The gate must never be the thing that breaks the tool.

The sentence decides how much to run, not whether

Running a two-minute test suite every time the agent pauses to ask a question would be unbearable. So the hook is claim-gated. Fast checks (typecheck, lint) run on every stop. The full suite runs only when the final message contains a completion claim: "tests pass", "done", "implemented", "ready for review". A passing tree is cached by a hash of the working tree, including untracked files, so an unchanged tree never runs twice.

The ways red goes green without a fix

Once tests gate the turn, a second failure mode shows up: the quickest route to green is sometimes to weaken the test. it.skip. A deleted test file. toStrictEqual quietly becoming toEqual. || true appended to the test script. -DskipTests in the CI file.

So isitdone also scans the diff for those, in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java/Kotlin and C#, and warns right after the edit that did it, while the agent can still undo it. It is line-and-regex scanning with a published detector list, not an AST, and it will miss clever cases. What I can say is how it behaves on a labelled corpus of legitimate refactors and tampering cases that lives in the repository: on the 192 cases there on 2026-09-24 (isitdone 0.7.0), no legitimate case was flagged (0 of 89) and 102 of 103 tampering cases were caught. The one miss is documented, and npm run bench prints the same figures per detector, with the commit it ran on. It warns by default; strict mode blocks.

Receipts

Every pass writes a small signed receipt bound to the hash of the working tree. Paste it into a pull request and a reviewer can see which tree the checks passed on; change one file and the receipt reads STALE. The same verification runs on pull requests as a GitHub Action, from a clean checkout that never trusts a local receipt.

An agent built this

One thing I should say plainly: I did not write this tool. Claude did, under my direction, as an experiment in agent-driven open source. It chose the project, designed it, wrote the code, the twelve agent adapters and the benchmark corpus, and runs adversarial multi-agent reviews before each release. I approve releases and own the accounts. Claude drafted this article too; the transcripts, the numbers and the decision to publish it are mine.

The first thing that agent needed, building anything at all, was a way to stop itself from claiming done. It runs isitdone on its own repository as a Stop hook and in CI. That is the most honest endorsement I can offer.

It is not a lie detector and it is not security. An agent with permission to edit settings can remove any hook. isitdone guards the honest mistake, which in my transcripts was about two thirds of the claims.

Run it on your own history

The number above is mine. Yours takes one command, reads only local transcript files (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, Cursor), and sends nothing anywhere:

npx isitdone history

I would like to know what you get.

isitdone is MIT-licensed, has zero dependencies and no model in the loop: https://github.com/raimondasl/isitdone.