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Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview

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Why This Matters

Dirac, an open-source AI coding agent, has achieved top performance on the TerminalBench leaderboard, outperforming both Google and closed-source competitors in accuracy and cost-efficiency. Its innovative optimizations significantly reduce API costs while maintaining high accuracy, demonstrating the potential for more affordable and effective AI tools in software development. This advancement highlights the importance of open-source solutions in driving accessible, high-performance AI for developers and the tech industry at large.

Key Takeaways

Dirac - Accurate & Highly Token Efficient Open Source AI Agent

Dirac topped the Terminal-Bench-2 leaderboard for gemini-3-flash-preview with a 65.2% score!

It is a well studied phenomenon that any given model's reasoning ability degrades with the context length. If we can keep context tightly curated, we improve both accuracy and cost while making larger changes tractable in a single task.

Dirac is an open-source coding agent built with this in mind. It reduces API costs by 64.8% on average while producing better and faster work. Using hash-anchored parallel edits, AST manipulation, and a suite of advanced optimizations. Oh, and no MCP.

Our goal: Optimize for bang-for-the-buck on tooling with bare minimum prompting instead of going blindly minimalistic.

πŸ“Š Evals

Dirac is benchmarked against other leading open-source agents on complex, real-world refactoring tasks. Dirac consistently achieves 100% accuracy at a fraction of the cost. These evals are run on public github repos and should be reproducible by anyone.

πŸ† TerminalBench 2.0 Leaderboard: Dirac recently topped the Terminal-Bench-2 leaderboard with a 65.2% score using gemini-3-flash-preview . This outperforms both Google's official baseline (47.6%) and the top closed-source agent Junie CLI (64.3%). This was achieved without any benchmark-specific info or any AGENTS.md files being inserted.

Note on the cost table below: A bug was discovered in Cline, the parent repo, after running these evals (issue #10314). We have submitted a PR #10315 to fix this. This bug caused the evals for Dirac and Cline to slightly underreport the numbers ($0.03 vs $0.05 per million token cache read). Although there won't be a large difference, we will update the evals soon.

🟒 Success | 🟑 Incomplete | πŸ”΄ Failure

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