---
pretty_name: InfraBench
license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
  - other
tags:
  - agents
  - infrastructure
  - benchmark
  - systems
  - HotInfra
  - evaluation
size_categories:
  - n<1K
language:
  - en
---

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# 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](https://infraben.ch)
- **Paper (PDF):** [Beyond Pass/Fail: Evaluating Infrastructure Agents Across Layers, Lifecycle, and Risk](https://hotinfra.org/2026/papers/hotinfra26-final71.pdf) · HotInfra '26 (co-located with ISCA '26)
- **GitHub:** [XuanmiaoG/InfraBench](https://github.com/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

```bibtex
@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