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MMTB: Evaluating Terminal Agents on Multimedia-File Tasks (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: MMTB is 105 tasks where an AI agent handles audio and video files in a terminal, unlike older text-only tests. A companion tool adds hearing and seeing, and the study finds what an agent can perceive changes its success and the evidence it uses.

Abstract

Terminals provide a powerful interface for AI agents by exposing diverse tools for automating complex workflows, yet existing terminal-agent benchmarks largely focus on tasks grounded in text, code, and structured files. However, many real-world workflows require practitioners to work directly with audio and video files. Working with such multimedia files calls for terminal agents not only to understand multimedia content, but also to convert auditory and visual evidence across related files into appropriate actions. To evaluate terminal agents on multimedia-file tasks, we introduce MultiMedia-TerminalBench (MMTB), a benchmark of 105 tasks across 5 meta-categories where terminal agents directly operate with audio and video files. Alongside MMTB, we propose Terminus-MM, a multimedia harness that extends Terminus-KIRA with audio and video perception for terminal agents. Together, MMTB and Terminus-MM support a controlled study of multimedia terminal agents, revealing how different forms of multimedia access shape task outcomes and determine which evidence agents rely on to construct executable terminal workflows. MMTB media and metadata are released at https://huggingface.co/datasets/mm-tbench/mmtb-media

Chiyeong Heo, Jaechang Kim, Junhyuk Kwon, Hoyoung Kim, Dongmin Park, Jonghyun Lee, Jungseul Ok
arXiv:2605.10966 · cs.MM, cs.AI · submitted May 8, 2026
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