---
license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - question-answering
  - text-classification
language:
  - en
tags:
  - docker
  - compose
  - ci
  - software-engineering
  - code-repair
  - agent-benchmark
  - build-failures
  - synthetic
pretty_name: Sabnock Docker
size_categories:
  - 100<n<1K
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: seed
        path: data/sabnock_docker_seed_split.json
      - split: train
        path: data/sabnock_docker_train.json
      - split: validation
        path: data/sabnock_docker_validation.json
      - split: challenge
        path: data/sabnock_docker_challenge.json
---

# Sabnock Docker

Sabnock Docker is a synthetic benchmark for testing whether AI agents can repair real Docker, Compose, and containerized CI failures.

It is built for AI engineers, not model hype. Each task contains a broken mini-repository, failing build/runtime logs, an expected fix, and machine-checkable scoring hints.

## Why This Exists

Most coding-agent demos look good until the work touches Docker, Compose, dependency resolution, build context, network binding, secrets, or CI logs. Sabnock Docker targets that exact failure class.

The v1 benchmark contains 108 synthetic tasks covering:

- Missing build-context files
- `npm ci` lockfile failures
- Multi-stage binary copy mistakes
- Compose readiness bugs
- `.dockerignore` production artifact mistakes
- Alpine native dependency failures
- Python `src/` layout container bugs
- Poetry `--no-root` mistakes
- Compose bind mounts hiding `node_modules`
- BuildKit secret handling
- `apt-get update` ordering
- Container network binding failures

## Repo Layout

```text
data/sabnock_docker_seed.json   Hand-written seed tasks
data/sabnock_docker_v1.json     108-task benchmark dataset
data/sabnock_docker_*.json      HF-ready split files
sabnock_docker/                 Loader, validator, scorer, CLI
scripts/build_dataset.py        Deterministic v1 dataset builder
app.py                          Hugging Face Space UI
tests/                          Dataset and scorer smoke tests
```

## Dataset Row Shape

Each row has:

```json
{
  "id": "sbd-0001",
  "split": "seed",
  "title": "Python image forgets requirements.txt",
  "failure_type": "missing_build_context_file",
  "ecosystem": "python",
  "difficulty": "easy",
  "files": [{"path": "Dockerfile", "content": ["FROM python:3.12-slim"]}],
  "failure_log": ["ERROR: Could not open requirements file"],
  "build": {"command": "docker build -t sabnock/sbd-0001 ."},
  "verify": {"commands": ["docker build -t sabnock/sbd-0001 ."]},
  "oracle_patch": ["diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile"],
  "scoring": {
    "must_touch": ["Dockerfile"],
    "must_contain": [{"path": "Dockerfile", "text": "COPY requirements.txt ."}],
    "must_not_contain": []
  }
}
```

The `content`, `failure_log`, and `oracle_patch` fields are arrays of lines so the dataset stays readable on Hugging Face.

## Splits

```text
seed        12 hand-written tasks
train       72 generated training/evaluation tasks
validation  12 validation tasks
challenge   12 harder public challenge tasks
```

The public `challenge` split is a placeholder for leaderboard-style scoring. For a serious leaderboard, keep future hidden tasks private and run them in a controlled evaluator.

## Local Use

Rebuild the v1 dataset:

```bash
python3 scripts/build_dataset.py
```

Validate the dataset:

```bash
python3 -m sabnock_docker.cli validate
```

Print benchmark statistics:

```bash
python3 -m sabnock_docker.cli stats
```

List tasks:

```bash
python3 -m sabnock_docker.cli list
```

Filter tasks:

```bash
python3 -m sabnock_docker.cli list --ecosystem compose --difficulty medium
```

Export a broken task to a directory:

```bash
python3 -m sabnock_docker.cli export sbd-0001 /tmp/sbd-0001
```

Score a proposed patch statically:

```bash
python3 -m sabnock_docker.cli score-patch sbd-0001 fix.patch
```

Verify with Docker locally:

```bash
python3 -m sabnock_docker.cli verify sbd-0001 --patch fix.patch
```

The `score-patch` command applies the patch to a temp copy of the broken repo and checks the final files. The `verify` command exports the task, applies the patch with `git apply`, then runs the task's verification commands. It requires Docker for Docker-backed checks.

Render a Markdown report:

```bash
python3 -m sabnock_docker.cli report -o BENCHMARK.md
```

Score a JSONL agent submission file:

```bash
python3 -m sabnock_docker.cli score-submissions submissions.jsonl
```

See `SUBMISSIONS.md` and `schemas/submission.schema.json` for the leaderboard submission format.

## Hugging Face Space

Run the browser UI:

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 app.py
```

The Space lets people browse tasks, filter the benchmark, inspect files/logs, score a patch, and view a leaderboard scaffold. Docker execution is intentionally local-first because public hosted Spaces should not run arbitrary Docker builds.

## Leaderboard Metrics

Recommended metrics:

- `pass_at_1`: first-patch success rate
- `patch_apply_rate`: whether the patch applies cleanly
- `docker_pass_rate`: whether local Docker verification passes
- `median_runtime_seconds`: wall time per task
- `mean_patch_lines`: patch size
- `cost_usd`: approximate model/tool cost

Submission row:

```json
{"agent":"my-agent","task_id":"sbd-0001","patch":"diff --git ...","runtime_seconds":12.4,"cost_usd":0.03}
```

## License

Apache-2.0. All seed tasks are synthetic and original.