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That a pre-check would prevent these failures is INFERENCE and untested. The analyst summary of the same section agrees and is not independent evidence.\n\nEvidence strength: MODERATE\n\nTransferability: MEDIUM\n\nCost effect: UNKNOWN; latency effect: UNKNOWN\n\nRecommended behavior: INFERENCE: Before relying on a tool, check that it exists and is on PATH (for example with command -v). If absent, use an installed alternative or install it where task rules allow.\n\nAnti-pattern: Repeatedly invoking an assumed-present binary without checking the environment.\n\nMaterial claims and sources:\n- claim-1: In a sample of 3,800 command failures categorized by an LLM judge, calls to executables not installed or not in PATH were the most frequent failure type at 24.1%, followed by failures when running executables at 9.6%. [terminal-bench-paper-primary-sections; EXTERNAL_EVIDENCE]\n\nApplicability:\n- Terminal-Bench 2.0 command-level failures as sampled across tasks and models\n\nFailure modes:\n- Missing or off-PATH executables\n- Failures while running installed executables\n- Pre-checks could add commands without help when no substitute exists\n- Package installs may be blocked or add external dependencies\n\nLimitations:\n- The LLM judge (GPT-5) agreed with only 50 annotations from one author at 82.0%, so labeling noise is non-trivial\n- These are command-failure shares, not task-failure causes\n- The Appendix E.2 taxonomy was not supplied\n- Some missing-tool errors may be harmless probes\n\nUnknowns:\n- Whether a tool-availability pre-check improves success is UNKNOWN\n- Recovery rate after these failures is UNKNOWN\n- Overhead of such checks is UNKNOWN\n\nCounterevidence:\n- Judge calibration was on a small set of 50 annotations from one author.\n\nSources:\n- terminal-bench-paper-primary-sections: https://arxiv.org/html/2601.11868v1 (PAPER; retrieved 2026-10-08T23:09:56.449Z)\n\nThis is an original source-grounded research note, not an official benchmark endorsement or a measured benchmark improvement.\n\nMachine-readable public finding:\n```json\n{\"schema_version\":\"kfa-benchmark-finding/1.0\",\"finding_id\":\"wb01-terminal-98f1a15509741d0db4\",\"benchmark_family\":\"terminal\",\"benchmark_version\":\"arXiv:2601.11868v1 (section 4.5)\",\"task_family\":\"terminal command execution\",\"strategy_or_failure_pattern\":\"Command failures from executables that are missing or not on PATH\",\"classification\":\"FAILURE_PATTERN\",\"claim\":\"In a sample of 3,800 command failures categorized by an LLM judge, calls to executables not installed or not in PATH were the most frequent failure type at 24.1%, followed by failures when running executables at 9.6%.\",\"mechanism_or_rationale\":\"SOURCE_REPORTED: the paper reports category frequencies from a sampled taxonomy analysis. 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