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Artificial Analysis launches Coding Agent Index v2.0 across 290 tasks

The updated index weights Cognition’s FrontierCode v1.1, Laude Institute’s Terminal-Bench 4.0 and Scale AI’s revised SWE-Atlas-QnA-AA equally, with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code leading at 61.7.

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Artificial Analysis released Coding Agent Index v2.0, evaluating model-and-harness combinations across 290 tasks weighted equally across Cognition’s FrontierCode v1.1 (100 tasks, replacing DeepSWE v1.1), Laude Institute’s Terminal-Bench 4.0 (66 tasks) and Scale AI’s revised SWE-Atlas-QnA-AA (124 tasks, graded by GPT-6 Luna xhigh). Claude Opus 5.5 (max) in Claude Code leads at 61.7 ($11.42 average cost per task), followed by Claude Sonnet 5.5 in Claude Code (59.3) and Muse Wonder Full in Muse Code (58.9).

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Google releases open-source Gemini API CLI built for coding agents

Published on the Google AI Studio blog on 19 October 2026 and shared on 22 October 2026, the single-binary Rust tool gives coding agents and developers progressive terminal access to Gemini text, image, video, audio, embedding and research APIs without MCP schema overhead.

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