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ProgramLab: teaching agents to rebuild real programs

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A research dataset of 1,262 program-reconstruction environments for training and evaluating coding agents with reinforcement learning.

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Researchers studying agentic reinforcement learning and program synthesis
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The tasks span Go, Rust, and C/C++; their hidden test suites total 187,208 tests.

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Tasks are built from pinned repository commits and pair an execute-only reference with usage material such as help output, man pages, and fixtures. The page reports a median of 127 hidden tests per task and 76.6% median coverage of first-party lines; coverage exceeds 90% for projects under 5,000 lines. The task collection includes projects such as mkcert, jless, and Caddy.

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