# CyberBench protocol v1

- Seed: 25
- Items: 160 (40 triage, 40 CTI, 40 Sigma, 40 RAG)
- Split: 96 development / 64 test, by family, not by rewriting one prompt
- Interactive: 20 ids listed in `splits.json`
- Gold: stored on the item record for scoring; omitted from `visible_input` and from prompts
- Judges: deterministic validators only. No LLM judge in the recorded scores
- Quality: `0.15 * json_validity + 0.40 * task_score + 0.25 * groundedness + 0.20 * abstention`
- Latency and cost are reported beside quality and are not mixed into a hidden rank
- Unevaluated / unavailable is written `not_evaluated`, never 0
- IOCs use documentation ranges (`192.0.2.0/24`, `198.51.100.0/24`, `203.0.113.0/24`) and `.example.test`
- No exploit generation, no live SIEM, no real secrets
- Level-1 synthetic fixture. It does not prove operational accuracy