# KaliBench: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Cybersecurity Tool Use on Kali Linux with Runtime-Free Verifiable Rewards

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> **Original Source**: [arXiv cs.AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02206v1)
> **Author**: Pengfei Li, Naufal Suryanto (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Thursday, October 1, 2026
> **Category**: RESEARCH
> **Tags**: Research, arXiv, Machine Learning

## Executive Summary
LLMs are increasingly applied to cybersecurity workflows, where they are expected to translate analysts' intent into tool invocations. However, existing evaluations focus on knowledge-based assessments or end-to-end agentic tasks, and do not directly measure LLMs' ability to...



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