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S-Agent 2.0: Spatial Reasoning with a General Coding Agent

Rui Gong Ruoyu Wang Yalun Dai Hao Li Sidi Yang Qihao Zhao Hongyu Li Zeyang Guan Fangzhou Hong Zhaoxi Chen Kim-Hui Yap Ziwei Liu
Oct 2026
Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision

Abstract

Spatial reasoning asks a model to work out where objects are in 3D space, how they relate to one another, and how they move. Agentic VLMs have recently brought large improvements on such tasks by letting the model actively gather evidence with 3D perception tools instead of answering in a single pass. Even so, on many questions the tools return the right evidence and the model still does not arrive at the correct answer: the gap between model and tools, where raw readings become usable conclusions, is left unfilled. We present S-Agent 2.0, a spatial reasoning agent that equips an off-the-shelf general coding agent with a command-line perception toolkit, and we design the interface around one principle: help the VLM close the evidence loop: acquire scene evidence, remember it in a persistent scene memory, and interpret each reading in plain spatial language. This design keeps the full flexibility of a coding agent, and every reading it acts on stays grounded in the tools' geometry. On MMSI-Bench and ReVSI, the toolkit improves a strong open-source model, Qwen3.8-27B, by +13.9 and +20.5 points over the same agent without tools, and a strong closed-source model, Gemini-3.8-Flash, by +11.2 and +9.6 points. With the open backbone S-Agent 2.0 reaches 66.5 on MMSI-Bench and 82.3 on ReVSI, ahead of the specialized system SpatialClaw on the same backbone (62.6 and 74.5), and with Gemini-3.8-Flash it reaches 74.1 and 90.5 against its 67.0 and 79.7. Both tool gains shrink as the backbone grows more capable, but SpatialClaw's shrinks far more on ReVSI, from +13.2 to +2.7, while ours stays at +9.6. S-Agent 2.0 also works across different general coding agent harnesses, such as Codex and Claude Code.

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