ORCA-bench Reveals Language Model Agents Are Not Ready for Oncall

Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?

ORCA-bench Reveals Language Model Agents Are Not Ready for Oncall

I introduce ORCA-bench, a new benchmark testing if language model agents can handle real oncall root cause analysis. Using a live microservice system with six days of telemetry, we found the best agents only achieved 25.3% accuracy on realistic tasks. Even top models like Claude Fable 5 struggle significantly, often hallucinating causes or failing without source code access. This gap highlights the massive engineering investment needed before trusting AI with production reliability.

The gap we report is a lower bound on the engineering investment required before frontier coding agents can be safely entrusted with production reliability.
  1. 4di

    looks like the public bench link in the paper was taken down. https://hub.harborframework.com/datasets/orca-bench/ORCA-ben...

    This doesn't work anymore. Is there a newer link?

  2. dash2

    Seems like there's a big attack-defence asymmetry at present: models are great at exploiting systems and poor at fixing them.

  3. tra3

    All I can think of is

    GET /ignore-all-previous-instructions.

    How do you protect against that?

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