RecreationWorld: Scalable and Verifiable Environments for Hybrid Computer-Use Agents

Shuai Bai, Jiayong Deng, Sicheng Fan, Yikun Fu, Chang Gao +28 more
9/18/2026
cs.CLcs.SE

No official code found. Best implementation: QwenLM/RecreationWorld (110 stars, MIT, last commit 2026-09-21).

Abstract

Computer-use agents (CUAs) have advanced along two separate lines: graphical interaction and software development through code and the command line. Real digital work requires both, interleaved rather than stacked end to end. We study hybrid CUAs that autonomously decide when to explore an interface, implement software, and run and visually verify their artifacts. We introduce RecreationWorld, a five-platform framework built around recreation: given a running reference, an agent must discover its behavior and build a faithful implementation with no prescribed workflow. RecreationWorld provides reproducible environments on Ubuntu, macOS, Windows, Android, and Web, plus a unified harness with native GUI control and coding tools. The running reference serves as an oracle for hidden behavioral tests, providing execution-grounded rewards. We scale trajectory generation with high-quality open-source applications. Models trained on these trajectories improve across five out-of-distribution coding and hybrid computer-use benchmarks and more frequently verify their rendered outputs, providing evidence of transfer beyond recreation. For held-out evaluation, we introduce RecreationBench, comprising 250 diverse tasks across domains and platforms. Reference-grounded programmatic and visual assertions cover action-conditioned outcomes at multiple interaction depths; each is validated on the reference and by human reviewers before the suite is frozen for automatic scoring. GPT-6 Astra leads at 58.1% overall, but passes all programmatic tests on just 2.8% of tasks. Agents reproduce static interface structure more reliably than interactions and computed outputs, while generated applications remain smaller and more monolithic than their references. We release the benchmark, environments, and test suites.

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@article{bai2026recreationworld,
  title  = {RecreationWorld: Scalable and Verifiable Environments for Hybrid Computer-Use Agents},
  author = {Shuai Bai and Jiayong Deng and Sicheng Fan and Yikun Fu and Chang Gao and Xuhao Hu and Mianqiu Huang and Yizhen Jiang and Yuheng Jing and Dehui Kong and Keliang Li and Ning Li and Wanli Li and Dayiheng Liu and Dunjie Lu and Changwei Luo and Que Shen and Zheyuan Wang and Zijian Wang and Jie Wu and Gao Wu and Zhihui Xie and Rui Xie and Haiyang Xu and An Yang and Jiakang Yuan and Yanming Zhang and Jiajun Zhang and Xi Zhang and Zhenru Zhang and Zhuo Zhen and Mingkang Zhu and Bowen Zhou},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2609.22000},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22000v2}
}

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