ResearchResearch paperAgents & Tool Use · Evaluation & Benchmarks · Multimodal Models2 sources · Oct 13, 2026

CLASHarness: Benchmarking Multi-Agent Conflict in Computer Use via a Controllable and Verifiable Generation Pipeline

We introduce CLASHarness (Conflict-Loaded Agent Scenario Harness), a controllable framework for generating verifiable multi-agent conflicts in computer use, with a benchmark of 600 multi-round tasks.

Key points

  • Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems to automate complex computer-use workflows, yet existing benchmarks mostly assume consistent, cooperative environments.
  • Evaluating such conflict resolution remains challenging: manual authoring cannot scale across complex systems, while unconstrained LLM generation produces narrative drift, answer leakage, and unsatisfiable rubrics.
  • By combining hierarchical scenario planning with an eight-step verified micro-pipeline, CLASHarness pre-commits decisive visual facts before rendering and compiles hybrid code and semantic graders directly from executed reference trajectories, guaranteeing every task is solvable by construction.
  • CLASHarness provides a scalable, verifiable foundation for building reliable multi-agent systems.

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