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A manuscript-grounded Kali Linux benchmark of 8,504 natural-language-to-CLI pairs shows no tested open-weight model tops 42% exact-command accuracy without tool hints — and that those same graded signals can train a smaller model up to much larger ones.
Editorial triage 93/100 · not peer review
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KaliBench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Cybersecurity Tool Use on Kali Linux with Runtime-Free Verifiable Rewards
A manuscript-grounded Kali Linux benchmark of 8,504 natural-language-to-CLI pairs shows no tested open-weight model tops 42% exact-command accuracy without tool hints — and that those same graded signals can train a smaller model up to much larger ones.
- ▸What: KaliBench measures whether language models can turn an analyst's request into an executable Kali Linux command, not just answer cybersecurity trivia or finish an end-to-end agent run.
- ▸Why it matters: Security operations live or die on exact CLI syntax; a wrong flag or argument order fails the job, so a graded, runtime-free reward is a path toward cheaper, more reliable tool-using assistants.
- ▸Who should care: Teams building defensive security copilots, evaluators of tool-using models, and anyone who wants capable command-line help without assuming a giant model is required.
arXiv
2610.02206
Disruptiveness
93/100
Editorial triage 93/100 · not peer review
5 min read
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