diff --git a/mteb/descriptive_stats/Retrieval/MBPPRetrieval.json b/mteb/descriptive_stats/Retrieval/MBPPRetrieval.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8f01b9e292
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mteb/descriptive_stats/Retrieval/MBPPRetrieval.json
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+    "test": {
+        "number_of_characters": 78520,
+        "num_samples": 1948,
+        "num_queries": 974,
+        "num_documents": 974,
+        "min_document_length": 37,
+        "average_document_length": 78.61601642710473,
+        "max_document_length": 249,
+        "unique_documents": 974,
+        "min_query_length": 2,
+        "average_query_length": 2.0,
+        "max_query_length": 2,
+        "unique_queries": 974,
+        "min_relevant_docs_per_query": 1,
+        "average_relevant_docs_per_query": 1.0,
+        "max_relevant_docs_per_query": 1,
+        "unique_relevant_docs": 974
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/mteb/tasks/Retrieval/__init__.py b/mteb/tasks/Retrieval/__init__.py
index e0c3cb77d0..90648dc5ea 100644
--- a/mteb/tasks/Retrieval/__init__.py
+++ b/mteb/tasks/Retrieval/__init__.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 from .code.CodeTransOceanDLRetrieval import *
 from .code.COIRCodeSearchNetRetrieval import *
 from .code.CosQARetrieval import *
+from .code.MBPPRetrieval import *
 from .code.HumanEvalRetrieval import *
 from .code.StackOverflowQARetrieval import *
 from .code.SyntheticText2SqlRetrieval import *
diff --git a/mteb/tasks/Retrieval/code/MBPPRetrieval.py b/mteb/tasks/Retrieval/code/MBPPRetrieval.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dbd36c34f8
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+++ b/mteb/tasks/Retrieval/code/MBPPRetrieval.py
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from mteb.abstasks.TaskMetadata import TaskMetadata
+
+from ....abstasks.AbsTaskRetrieval import AbsTaskRetrieval
+
+
+class MBPPRetrieval(AbsTaskRetrieval):
+    metadata = TaskMetadata(
+        name="MBPPRetrieval",
+        description="A code retrieval task based on 378 Python programming problems from MBPP (Mostly Basic Python Programming). Each query is a natural language description of a programming task (e.g., 'Write a function to find the shared elements from the given two lists'), and the corpus contains Python code implementations. The task is to retrieve the correct code snippet that solves the described problem. Queries are problem descriptions while the corpus contains Python function implementations with proper syntax and logic.",
+        reference="https://huggingface.co/datasets/embedding-benchmark/MBPP",
+        dataset={
+            "path": "embedding-benchmark/MBPP",
+            "revision": "12a7c6b3b7e985be9b9f81e2f06306ffd17cc5a4",
+        },
+        type="Retrieval",
+        category="s2s",
+        modalities=["text"],
+        eval_splits=["test"],
+        eval_langs=["eng-Latn", "python-Code"],
+        main_score="ndcg_at_10",
+        date=("2021-01-01", "2021-12-31"),
+        domains=["Programming"],
+        task_subtypes=["Code retrieval"],
+        license="cc-by-4.0",
+        annotations_creators="expert-annotated",
+        dialect=[],
+        sample_creation="found",
+        bibtex_citation=r"""
+@article{austin2021program,
+  author = {Austin, Jacob and Odena, Augustus and Nye, Maxwell and Bosma, Maarten and Michalewski, Henryk and Dohan, David and Jiang, Ellen and Cai, Carrie and Terry, Michael and Le, Quoc and others},
+  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.07732},
+  title = {Program Synthesis with Large Language Models},
+  year = {2021},
+}
+""",
+    )
+
+    def load_data(self, **kwargs):
+        if self.data_loaded:
+            return
+
+        from datasets import load_dataset
+
+        # Load the three configurations
+        corpus_ds = load_dataset(
+            self.metadata.dataset["path"],
+            "corpus",
+            revision=self.metadata.dataset["revision"],
+        )["corpus"]
+        queries_ds = load_dataset(
+            self.metadata.dataset["path"],
+            "queries",
+            revision=self.metadata.dataset["revision"],
+        )["queries"]
+        qrels_ds = load_dataset(
+            self.metadata.dataset["path"],
+            "default",
+            revision=self.metadata.dataset["revision"],
+        )["test"]
+
+        # Initialize data structures with 'test' split
+        corpus = {}
+        queries = {}
+        relevant_docs = {}
+
+        # Process corpus
+        for item in corpus_ds:
+            corpus[item["id"]] = {"title": "", "text": item["text"]}
+
+        # Process queries
+        for item in queries_ds:
+            queries[item["id"]] = item["text"]
+
+        # Process qrels (relevant documents)
+        for item in qrels_ds:
+            query_id = item["query-id"]
+            if query_id not in relevant_docs:
+                relevant_docs[query_id] = {}
+            relevant_docs[query_id][item["corpus-id"]] = int(item["score"])
+
+        # Organize data by splits as expected by MTEB
+        self.corpus = {"test": corpus}
+        self.queries = {"test": queries}
+        self.relevant_docs = {"test": relevant_docs}
+
+        self.data_loaded = True