title	Pwned Environment Server
emoji	💻
colorFrom	blue
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sdk	docker
pinned	false
app_port	8000
base_path	/web/
tags	openenv pentesting secops benchmark

Pwned

A real-world dual-suite cyber-range benchmark built on OpenEnv. Pwned exposes the same deterministic, partially observable range through a procedural Pentesting suite and a report-driven SecOps suite.

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Why This Exists

Pwned is not a toy game loop. It is a real-world benchmark for agents that need to operate inside a safe, deterministic cyber-range while still solving human-relevant tasks.

It now has two public suites:

• Pentesting: operator-style technical objectives over the seeded range
• SecOps: evidence-backed analyst tickets over the same underlying incidents

The browser defaults to Pentesting so first-time users immediately see the deeper range mechanics. The SecOps suite remains the judge-readable benchmark story for the named analyst missions.

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Dual Suites

Pentesting Suite

The Pentesting suite shows more of the underlying procedural range. It is parameterized by task_name, difficulty, seed, and optional bounded pentesting_overrides.

Mission family	Primary objective	Difficulty knobs
pivot_path	Reach the designated target host or subnet through the real network graph	difficulty, level, required_pivot_count, subnet_count, decoy_count, credential_chain_count, detection_pressure
privesc_hunt	Obtain the required privilege on the designated target host	difficulty, level, subnet_count, decoy_count, credential_chain_count, detection_pressure
terminal_exfil	Complete the full chain and exfiltrate the true terminal flag	difficulty, level, required_pivot_count, subnet_count, decoy_count, credential_chain_count, detection_pressure

pivot_path and privesc_hunt mark objective completion without ending the episode. Terminal exfiltration remains the only success termination.

SecOps Suite

The SecOps suite keeps the original named benchmark tasks and evidence-backed report graders. Mission briefs are still written as operational queue items: an alert, change request, or incident ticket.

Task	Difficulty	Brief type	What the agent submits
alert_triage	Easy	Alert ticket	initial_compromised_host, suspected_entry_vector, confidence, cited_evidence_ids
containment_check	Medium	Change request ticket	containment_effective, remaining_open_path, affected_hosts, cited_evidence_ids
incident_reconstruction	Hard	Incident ticket	attack_chain, affected_hosts, escalation_point, escalation_artifact, exfiltration_target, cited_evidence_ids

Each SecOps task is graded from 0.0 to 1.0 with deterministic partial credit and explicit evidence support checks. Each reset returns a mission brief that starts with Ticket: and includes task-specific analyst instructions.

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Observation Surfaces

Pwned now uses one public mission-safe transport story across HTTP, WebSocket, the Python client, and the browser Mission Console.

Canonical OpenEnv transport

The canonical public API is session-aware:

• POST /reset returns session_id, observation, reward, and done
• POST /step reuses session_id and returns the same envelope
• GET /state?session_id=... returns the current mission-safe public state snapshot
• /web/ mounts the browser Mission Console

On the client surface, client reset(...) returns a StepResult envelope and the canonical transport returns an observation object plus reward and done.

The public observation object is richer but still mission-safe:

• raw_output
• notebook
• suite_name
• task_name
• difficulty
• objective
• procedural_profile
• mission_brief
• submission_schema
• steps_remaining
• evidence_log
• report_feedback

For Pentesting episodes, objective and procedural_profile are populated while submission_schema is empty. For SecOps episodes, submission_schema drives submit_report and the Pentesting-only fields are null.

The notebook is a structured Hacker Notebook object that carries discovered hosts, files, foothold, privileges, exfiltration_buffer, step count, and risk pool. Credentials are surfaced as structured credential records rather than free-form text.

Public state() over the network returns PwnedPublicState, not hidden simulator truth. Hidden PwnedEnvironment.state remains an in-process-only debugging boundary, and state() typed into the command surface is still tamper.

Trusted in-process benchmark helpers

Trusted in-process runners still have access to the same public observation plus direct in-process helper access when debugging or testing benchmark internals. That boundary is deliberate: the public transport is benchmark-rich but still mission-safe, while hidden topology, mission truth, and evaluator-only internals stay server-side.

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Action Space

The environment keeps the original command-style action surface:

Action	Meaning
nmap <target>	discover reachable hosts and services
ls [path]	enumerate readable files on the current foothold
cat <file>	read a file; may surface credentials, exploit triggers, or flags
whoami	confirm current privilege level
ssh <user>@<host>	pivot to a reachable host
exfiltrate <flag-id>	original terminal cyber-range objective
submit_report	benchmark-only structured report submission action

Pipes, redirects, shell chaining, /proc, metadata probes, and control-plane access terminate as tamper immediately.

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Reward Model

The benchmark preserves the core range mechanics:

• every step pays -0.01 per step
• successful terminal exfiltration +0.99
• detection or tamper -1.01
• and step budgets 15 / 20 / 25 / 30

Benchmark mode layers mission shaping on top of that:

• subgoal deltas add partial-progress reward
• the existing defender detection dynamics still run underneath
• final submit_report returns -0.01 + score

That means agents are rewarded for useful progress but still punished for noisy, reckless trajectories.

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Evidence And Grading

Every observable benchmark fact is minted into an append-only evidence_log; evidence is minted at observation time.

Evidence entries are stable, citable objects:

• deterministic IDs like ev-0001
• observation-time minting only
• no retrospective backfilling
• cannot be backfilled
• required report field cited_evidence_ids

The final grader checks both correctness and support:

• unknown evidence IDs hurt score
• unsupported claims produce explicit feedback
• report_feedback returns the final score and breakdown

Why Graders Are Deterministic

The grader is deterministic by design so benchmark comparisons are stable:

• same task, same seed, and same cited evidence IDs produce the same score
• rubric weights are fixed per task
• the grader never samples randomness during report scoring

This keeps runs reproducible across reruns and prevents grading variance from hiding model behavior.

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Quick Start

Mission Console

Run the server and open http://localhost:8000/web/ to use the Mission Console. It drives the same public benchmark session model as the API: choose a suite, start a mission, inspect the notebook and evidence_log, execute commands, refresh /state, and either work toward a Pentesting objective or submit a structured SecOps report. The browser defaults to Pentesting.

The Mission Console is a visual-first dashboard that arranges the public transport story into literal panel renderings so agents can read the observed state without guessing. The rendered rows currently include a Mission Brief text area, a Mission Status panel, the Asset Explorer, Evidence Timeline, Outcome panel, a conservative Network / Foothold Map that only shows observed hosts, and the Raw Data drawer that surfaces the mission-safe JSON payload already available through the API.

Visual Dashboard Layout

• Mission Brief text area sits beside the Mission Status panel and simply echoes the analyst instructions or mission ticket copy; keeping it separate means the brief stays visible while scanning other panels.
• Mission Status panel lists the active suite, task, detection pressure, and remaining step budget while Pentesting, and flips to the SecOps-ready state (ticket readiness indicator plus minted-evidence count) whenever a report-focused brief is active so the summary matches the suite context without reproducing the full objective text.
• Asset Explorer lists discovered hosts and footholds along with compromised status, reachable services, and stored credentials; it does not synthesize reachability recommendations or link entries back into the timeline.
• Evidence Timeline lists minted evidence in chronological order, providing the evidence_log id and description for each entry without inventing severity, confidence, or readiness badges.
• Outcome panel sits beside the timeline and toggles its contents: Pentesting hosts the current objective card/status so operators know the goal under observation, while SecOps shows the report_feedback summary (score, breakdown, grader errors, citation groups) produced for the current ticket. It remains a separate summary view rather than a timeline-integrated scorecard.
• Network / Foothold Map only renders observed hosts and the footholds that have been pivoted into on this run, never inventing unobserved subnets or drawing every service link.
• Raw Data drawer lives at the bottom of the console. Sliding it up reveals the current mission-safe JSON observation so analysts can inspect notebooks, minted evidence, or submission schemas without touching tamper-only endpoints.

Suite-Specific Behavior

Pentesting emphasizes the Mission Status panel, Asset Explorer, and the conservative Network / Foothold Map so operators can track pivots, services, and detection pressure. SecOps instead focuses the Evidence Timeline and Outcome panel, zeroing in on minted evidence ids and the computed grade while the Mission Brief text area and Raw Data drawer remain visible so no reference material disappears when toggling suites.

Public HTTP API

import httpx

base_url = "http://localhost:8000"

with httpx.Client(base_url=base_url) as client:
    reset = client.post(
        "/reset",
        json={
            "seed": 42,
            "episode_id": "quickstart-http",
            "suite_name": "pentesting",
            "task_name": "pivot_path",
            "difficulty": "medium",
        },
    ).json()
    session_id = reset["session_id"]

    step = client.post(
        "/step",
        json={"session_id": session_id, "command": "whoami"},
    ).json()

    state = client.get("/state", params={"session_id": session_id}).json()

print(session_id)
print(step["observation"]["raw_output"])
print(step["observation"]["suite_name"])
print(state["status"])

Canonical OpenEnv client

from Pwned import PwnedAction, PwnedEnv

with PwnedEnv(base_url="http://localhost:8000").sync() as env:
    result = env.reset(
        seed=42,
        episode_id="quickstart",
        suite_name="pentesting",
        task_name="pivot_path",
        difficulty="medium",
    )
    print(result.observation.raw_output)
    print(result.observation.notebook)
    print(result.observation.objective)

    public_state = env.state()
    print(public_state.session_id)
    print(public_state.status)

    while not result.done:
        result = env.step(PwnedAction(command="nmap 10.0.1.0/24"))
        print(result.reward, result.observation.raw_output)

Trusted in-process benchmark run

from Pwned.models import PwnedAction
from Pwned.server.Pwned_environment import PwnedEnvironment

env = PwnedEnvironment()
obs = env.reset(seed=7, episode_id="operator-run", suite_name="pentesting", task_name="pivot_path", difficulty="medium")

print(obs.suite_name)
print(obs.task_name)
print(obs.mission_brief)
print(obs.evidence_log)
print(obs.objective)

# ... gather evidence with command actions ...

secops = env.reset(seed=7, episode_id="alert-triage", suite_name="secops", task_name="alert_triage")

terminal = env.step(
    PwnedAction.model_validate(
        {
            "kind": "submit_report",
            "report": {
                "task_name": "alert_triage",
                "verdict": "confirmed compromise",
                "confidence": 0.85,
                "cited_evidence_ids": ["ev-0001", "ev-0002"],
                "initial_compromised_host": "10.0.0.10",
                "suspected_entry_vector": "stolen ssh credential",
            },
        }
    )
)

print(terminal.report_feedback)
env.close()

Setup

uv sync --extra dev
uv run server --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

With Docker:

docker build -t pwned-env:latest .
docker run -p 8000:8000 pwned-env:latest

Push to Hugging Face Spaces:

openenv push --repo-id your-org/pwned

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Inference Baseline

The submission baseline lives at the repo root as inference.py.

It continues to run the three named SecOps tasks by default, because those are the competition-scored report missions. The Pentesting suite is exposed for browser users, API users, and broader evaluation of the underlying range.

It uses the OpenAI client and reads:

• API_BASE_URL
• MODEL_NAME
• HF_TOKEN
• LOCAL_IMAGE_NAME when a local Docker image name is provided

The script runs all three named tasks by default and emits the required stdout protocol:

• [START]
• [STEP]
• [END]

The baseline is intentionally judge-readable:

• the command policy gathers evidence from the public notebook/evidence surface
• the report-writing model sees the evidence_log
• the final submission carries cited_evidence_ids
• the episode ends with a printed mission score

Run it with:

HF_TOKEN=... \
API_BASE_URL=https://router.huggingface.co/v1 \
MODEL_NAME=Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct \
./.venv/bin/python inference.py

Multi-Seed Baseline Seed Pack

inference.py uses this deterministic seed pack by default:

• alert_triage=7,13,29
• containment_check=7,13,29
• incident_reconstruction=7,13,29

Baseline Scores

The checked-in HF-router baseline artifact lives at docs/baselines/hf-router-qwen2.5-72b-instruct.json.

The real baseline profile is reported as mean score plus standard deviation per task:

Task	Model	Seed pack	Mean score	Standard deviation
alert_triage	Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct	7,13,29	1.00	0.00
containment_check	Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct	7,13,29	0.70	0.00
incident_reconstruction	Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct	7,13,29	0.95	0.07

These numbers come from a real inference.py run against the Hugging Face router over the default multi-seed pack, not a single-seed smoke score.

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Underlying Cyber-Range Mechanics

Both public suites ride on the original Pwned environment:

• deterministic hidden topology generation
• partial observability
• no outbound traffic
• no real exploit execution
• strict allowlist

The Pentesting suite surfaces that progression directly, while the SecOps suite wraps it in ticket-style evidence reporting. The core solve loop is still the cyber-range progression:

nmap 10.0.0.0/24
nmap 10.0.1.5
cat /var/ftp/.backdoor
whoami
ls .
cat /home/analyst/backup.sh
cat /root/flag.txt
exfiltrate flag-7a3c

That means the agent still has to read the visible privesc trigger, move a flag into exfiltration_buffer, and read the visible flag file as root before terminal exfiltration would succeed.

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Architecture

The implementation preserves the original five-layer split:

1. Scenario Generator
2. Simulation Engine
3. Action Interpreter
4. Reward and Termination Engine
5. OpenEnv Adapter

The public benchmark layer now has two faces over that core:

• Pentesting specs, objectives, and procedural profile resolver
• deterministic evidence tracker
• SecOps mission specs and named task routing
• typed submit_report payloads
• deterministic mission grader

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Validation

./.venv/bin/openenv validate .
./.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q

Current local verification target:

• OpenEnv validation passes
• full pytest suite passes
• inference.py exists at repo root and follows the required protocol

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Reference Files

Document	Purpose
docs/REFERENCE.md	exact mechanics, reward values, detection math, and safety rules
docs/SPEC.md	benchmark/product framing and acceptance criteria
docs/PLAN.md	historical implementation context
AGENTS.md	local automation rules

REFERENCE.md remains the source of truth when mechanics conflict.

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License

MIT