InfraBench

InfraBench evaluates AI agents on realistic infrastructure incidents across the full stack (L1 hardware → L4 applications) and the operational lifecycle — durability, invariants, cleanup, and risk — not just binary pass/fail.

• Website / leaderboard: https://infraben.ch
• Paper (PDF): Beyond Pass/Fail: Evaluating Infrastructure Agents Across Layers, Lifecycle, and Risk · HotInfra '26 (co-located with ISCA '26)
• GitHub: XuanmiaoG/InfraBench

There is no arXiv id for this paper yet. The canonical PDF is hosted by HotInfra: https://hotinfra.org/2026/papers/hotinfra26-final71.pdf

What's in this dataset

Public task packages (instruction, environment, verifier layout) mirrored from the open InfraBench repository:

Task	Layer	Difficulty	Backend
hello-world	—	Easy	Docker
ipmi-node-power-recovery	L1	Easy	BM Cluster
cassandra-nic-split-brain	L2	Medium	BM Cluster
cassandra-dead-node-removal	L3	Medium	BM Cluster
vm-ceph-bootstrap	L3	Hard	VM cluster
db-wal-recovery	L4	Hard	Container

Also included:

• paper/hotinfra26-final71.pdf — HotInfra '26 paper PDF
• docs/assets/ — README figures
• CONTRIBUTING.md / AGENTS.md — task authoring notes
• LICENSE — Apache-2.0

Not included

The closed evaluation runtime (Syscraft) is not published here. Treat these packages as layout + verifier references until a public runner ships.

Task package shape

my-task/
├── task.toml          # env, resources, difficulty
├── instruction.md     # what the agent sees
├── environment/       # Dockerfile  —or—  setup.sh + bootstrap.sh
├── solution/          # optional reference solve.sh
└── tests/             # verifier → /logs/verifier/reward.{txt,json}

Citation

@inproceedings{gao2026infrabench,
  title     = {Beyond Pass/Fail: Evaluating Infrastructure Agents Across Layers, Lifecycle, and Risk},
  author    = {Gao, Yuan and Yang, Zeren and Li, Junnan and Zhong, Shawn (Wanxiang) and Dajani, Ahmed and Zheng, Mai and Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea and Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi},
  booktitle = {Workshop on Hot Topics in System Infrastructure (HotInfra)},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Co-located with ISCA '26},
  url       = {https://hotinfra.org/2026/papers/hotinfra26-final71.pdf}
}

Links

• Site: https://infraben.ch/
• PDF: https://hotinfra.org/2026/papers/hotinfra26-final71.pdf
• HotInfra '26: https://hotinfra.org/2026/
• Scholar (Yuan Gao): https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oD9j2NMAAAAJ&hl=en