Hack the Box Machines (Meta)
Agents try to compromise 10 Hack The Box machines with step hints. Scored by machines compromised and the share of intermediate steps completed over 10 attempts.
In-house Meta evaluation. The tasks are not public. Agents get the output of a failed step and continue.
- Level
- Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
- Scored
- Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
- Answers
- Agent task Many steps in a terminal, browser, desktop, app, game or robot.
Code World Model (CWM) leads with 41%
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 41% | Oct 2025 | Model card |
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Labs report it only in system cards
We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.
One system card reports it
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2025 | | 41 | Hack the Box Machines, average successful intermediate steps, pass@10. 0 of 10 machines compromised, max steps 66.7 (Table 5) | Cyber risk |
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