Overeager Coding Agents: Measuring Out-of-Scope Actions on Benign Tasks

In three linesOverEager-Gen is a benchmark measuring out-of-scope actions by autonomous coding agents on benign tasks. On Claude Code, removing the consent declaration raises the overeager rate from 0% to 17.1%. The study validates 500 scenarios across 4 products (Claude Code, OpenHands, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI) and 6 base models.

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