LLM agents deploy repairs better than systems built from scratch

FDE-Bench tests whether agents can produce replayable Docker, Compose, and Kubernetes configurations that build, become ready, behave correctly, and meet specifications.

Top University
Weihang Ding · Junfei Zhan · Yueting Li · Qirong Guo

University of California, Berkeley · Imperial College London · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

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Ding et al.

The authors built FDE-Bench from hand-authored deployment scenarios covering Docker images, multi-service Compose stacks, and Kubernetes.

Why this paper

From University of California, Berkeley and 2 others

In one line

FDE-Bench reveals that readiness checks are the primary failure point for LLM agents in deployment tasks.

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