AuthZBench-SaaS

AuthZBench-SaaS is a SaaS authorization benchmark for testing whether AI agents can prove access-control failures with backend evidence while avoiding false reports on secure controls.

The benchmark focuses on a narrow, practical security question:

Can an agent show that the wrong tenant, role, user, token, or object was allowed through, and can it stay quiet when access is correctly denied or correctly allowed?

v1.0-internal means internally validated benchmark artifact. It is not a hosted leaderboard, externally validated benchmark, Harbor-accepted or Harbor-endorsed benchmark, SaaS-provider-validated benchmark, production vulnerability discovery benchmark, validated model benchmark, or community benchmark. See the canonical claim table at docs/claims-and-evidence.md. The local_or_containerized_submission_smoke gate covers the local Docker submission smoke only and explicitly sets hosted_leaderboard_operation_claimed: false.

Current repository state: the public v0.0 release tag exists; this branch packages the v1.0-internal internally validated benchmark artifact for Kaggle-like host review. It is not a hosted leaderboard, not externally validated, and not platform accepted.

Why This Matters

AI security tools can produce convincing vulnerability reports without proving a real vulnerability. Authorization bugs are a useful stress test because a correct answer needs more than fluent prose:

the right actor
the right tenant, organization, project, object, role, or token boundary
a replayable backend request
no finding on secure-control tasks
no unsafe or out-of-scope behavior

AuthZBench-SaaS rewards proof and penalizes unsupported claims.

Status

Release state: v1.0-internal complete under the internal/non-external release definition
Public apps: 6 synthetic SaaS targets
Public tasks: 63 (27 vulnerable, 36 secure controls; 21 denial, 15 authorized-allow)
Maintainer-private holdout tasks: 48, summarized only
Total public + private task scale: 111
Harbor adapter: packaged no_tools CLI validated from an isolated wheel install; older one-task/six-task local evidence is historical, the three-task pilot requires a current-source rebuild/rerun, and live_http_tool_agent is planned_unsupported
External review, SaaS-provider validation, hosted leaderboard operation, Harbor/Kaggle/platform acceptance, and third-party submissions: v2/external gates

The public-view readiness fixture at artifact/expected-output/v1-readiness-public-view.json is a public-view readiness fixture match checked with --allow-incomplete --public-view --expected-output. The current fixture reports the current internal gate state and any unmet gates; fixture agreement is the internal/public-view scope only and does not assert external review, SaaS-provider validation, hosted leaderboard readiness, or platform acceptance. See docs/claims-and-evidence.md.

The current maturity label is credible v1 internal benchmark; credible community-benchmark candidate pending external validation. Do not paraphrase this as "externally validated", "hosted leaderboard operation", "Harbor accepted", "SOTA security benchmark", or "production vulnerability discovery benchmark". The canonical single-table claim ledger lives at docs/claims-and-evidence.md, and the CI-enforced forbidden-phrase check at scripts/check_claim_boundary.py fails the build on wording drift.

Roadmap At A Glance

For reviewers and evaluators, the authoritative forward-looking roadmap is the Reviewer Roadmap At A Glance section in ROADMAP.md. It separates what is left to call v1 fully done, what must happen before v2 external validation can start, and what polish is needed for presentation:

roadmap gaps — remaining v1-scope improvements with owner, verification, and status; preserves the v1.0-internal maturity label.
v2 external-validation prep — deferred tracks with dependencies and entry criteria; all tracks remain preparatory and gated.
repo-presentation polish — checklist for host/reviewer presentation readiness.

Stage	Status	What it proves	Next gate
`v0.0` public release	Complete	First evidence-backed public benchmark snapshot with 46 frozen public tasks, release evidence, CI, privacy checks, and tagged release artifacts.	Preserved as historical release evidence.
`v1.0-internal`	Complete	Current internally validated artifact with 63 public tasks, 48 maintainer-private holdout tasks, deterministic scoring, private-holdout governance, and repo-side Harbor adapter path.	Keep docs, validators, and artifacts aligned while external tracks are still pending.
`v2` external validation	Deferred	Independent AppSec/evals/agent review, SaaS-provider scenario validation, platform review, hosted operation, and third-party submissions.	Recruit reviewers, run external lanes, record real dispositions, and update the claim ledger.

The full roadmap is maintained in ROADMAP.md, including the roadmap gaps, v2 external-validation prep, and repo-presentation polish sections. Claim limits and the v2 external-validation tracks are maintained in docs/claims-and-evidence.md.

What This Is

A benchmark for evaluating whether AI agents can reason about SaaS authorization boundaries with backend-replayable proof:

BOLA/BFLA-style authorization failures
tenant, organization, project, object, role, and token boundaries
correct actor / tenant / role boundary reasoning
false-positive avoidance on secure controls
safe behavior inside intentionally vulnerable local targets

What This Is Not

Not hosted leaderboard operation
Not an externally reviewed or industry-standard benchmark
Not a Kaggle or Harbor accepted/hosted benchmark
Not SaaS-provider validated
Not third-party proven
Not a benchmark of general cyber capability, exploit development, cloud exploitation, malware, phishing, or production-target vulnerability discovery

Quickstart

git clone https://github.com/bmendonca3/authzbench-saas.git
cd authzbench-saas
./artifact/run-public-validation.sh

The script runs the public validation gate, v1 public-readiness fixture check, Harbor adapter / blocker / template / preflight checks, baseline registry validation, leaderboard submission validation, and the tracked-path privacy check. The final line should be:

Artifact privacy check passed: no private/raw artifact paths are tracked.

See docs/validation-commands.md for the full set, including the maintainer-only strict validation set and the Harbor local preflight.

Claims And Boundaries

AuthZBench-SaaS v1.0-internal is complete under the internal/non-external release definition. It does not claim:

independent external review
SaaS-provider scenario validation
hosted leaderboard operation (not claimed, deferred to v2)
Harbor or Kaggle or other platform acceptance
third-party submissions
production SaaS coverage or real customer SaaS authorization coverage

Allowed claims: internally validated, deterministic scoring, public/private split, protected private holdout plumbing, repo-side local Harbor no-tools adapter path, parity methodology versioning, public-view readiness fixture match (--allow-incomplete), historical native-vs-Harbor local parity evidence where present in tracked artifacts, and v2 external gates tracked explicitly.

Full claim ledger: docs/claims-and-evidence.md. Frozen-v0.0 release evidence registry: docs/release-evidence.json. v1 release note: docs/releases/v1.0-internal.md.

Release Evidence Validation

The public-view readiness fixture is checked with the public-safe validator invocation:

python3 scripts/validate_v1_readiness.py \
  --allow-incomplete \
  --public-view \
  --expected-output artifact/expected-output/v1-readiness-public-view.json

--allow-incomplete returns 0 when the rendered output matches the expected fixture, even if v1_ready is false under honest post-cleanup evidence. The current fixture reports v1_ready: false with 3 unmet gates: repeated private no-tools and tool-agent rows pending current-policy reruns, plus the paper-and-artifact source-binding gate. This does not infer external release evidence from public artifacts; external release evidence is a v2 gate kept outside public Git per the completion gate in docs/goal.md.

For a one-line reviewer-readable summary of the headline verdict, add --summary (default invocation is silent on stderr so test contracts that pipe the JSON dump stay unchanged):

python3 scripts/validate_v1_readiness.py --summary

The summary stderr line names the failing gate(s) when v1_ready: false, so the headline verdict is grep-friendly in CI logs without parsing JSON.

Harbor Adapter

Repo-side local no-tools adapter path: implemented
Live HTTP tool-agent lane: planned_unsupported; the packaged CLI fails closed because target-service orchestration and request correlation are not implemented
Public-safe Harbor adapter contract, skeleton builder, and blocker record: shipped
Parity methodology versioning: per_task_pairing (default for new evidence) and aggregate_means (historical only, with evidence_status: historical_backcompat)
Historical local smoke evidence: retained at artifact/harbor-adapter-smoke.json
Historical scoped parity evidence: six public API-token tasks recorded six-of-six per-task native reward matches under the documented empty-findings baseline in artifact/harbor-parity-experiment.json; this is not current-source compatibility evidence
Distribution smoke: python3 scripts/validate_packaged_harbor.py builds the wheel, installs it outside the source tree, invokes the packaged CLI, and builds a one-task dataset
Local execution preflight: python3 scripts/check_harbor_local_execution.py
Three-task state validator: python3 scripts/validate_harbor_compatibility_state.py
Three-task public pilot: historical Harbor 0.13.2 NOP/Oracle execution is tracked in artifact/harbor-kaggle-public-pilot/local-harbor-evidence.json; the prior 12-cell repeat matrix and six-run starter matrix completed with NOP 0.0 and Oracle 1.0. The checked-in generated pilot no longer matches the current canonical task/scorer source set, so it must be rebuilt and rerun before a current compatibility claim.
Google/Kaggle's July 22 onboarding update and official starter repository confirm the task-directory, local NOP/Oracle, CTRF, and digest-backed dataset workflow. The tracked dataset.toml now matches that local starter contract, and its three digests match Harbor 0.13.2 harbor add. This is still an internal, non-published pilot; harbor publish was not run.
One historical local Harbor 0.13.2 mini-swe-agent run completed the secure-denial control through Kaggle Model Proxy with a valid submission, passing CTRF and score, reward 1.0, no trial exception, and inspected token use. Its temporary all-public network mode makes it historical compatibility evidence only, not verifier-isolation, Kaggle-executor, Kaggle-hosted, platform-acceptance, or launch evidence.
The schema clarification is pushed at exact commit 20cd189. A local run of Kaggle's pinned published Harbor executor image checked out that commit, but Harbor 0.15 failed before agent startup because its nested egress-control sidecar could not install required nftables fib rules on the local Docker-in-Docker host. The attempt produced no trajectory, submission, CTRF, score, reward, token use, or verifier result and is not Kaggle-hosted evidence.
Full 63-task/model parity, Harbor platform acceptance, and hosted Harbor operation: not claimed (v2 gates)

Full runbook: docs/harbor-integration-runbook.md. Pilot design and remaining platform questions: docs/kaggle-benchmark-design-contract.md.

Repository Map

README.md — this file
docs/index.md — full documentation index
docs/benchmark-spec.md — benchmark scope, intended use, methodology, and holdout plans
docs/claims-and-evidence.md — current claim ledger, canonical claim boundary, and v2 external validation roadmap
docs/scoring-and-submissions.md — scoring policy, submission schemas, and anti-gaming guidelines
docs/artifact-index.md — public-safe artifact index
docs/validation-commands.md — validation commands
docs/harbor-integration-runbook.md — Harbor adapter runbook
docs/releases/v1.0-internal.md — v1 release note
artifact/ — tracked public-safe artifacts
tasks/ — public task manifests (6 apps, 63 tasks)
authzbench_harbor/ — repo-side Harbor adapter Python package
scripts/ — validation and runner scripts
tests/ — unit tests

Public checkouts intentionally do not include private holdout manifests. That is part of the contamination-control design, not a missing file.

For Reviewers

General benchmark reviewers should start with:

docs/index.md: full documentation map.
README.md: project overview, current status, and supported claims.
docs/benchmark-spec.md: benchmark scope, methodology, and holdout specifications.
docs/claims-and-evidence.md: claim boundaries and evidence matrix.
docs/scoring-and-submissions.md: scoring rules and submission formats.
docs/artifact-index.md: what each tracked artifact is allowed to prove.
docs/validation-commands.md: public validation set, maintainer strict set, and privacy check.
docs/reviews/external-review-packet.md: bounded review questions.
docs/goal.md: current v1.0-internal status and remaining gates.

Kaggle-Like Host Review

If you are a benchmark host or platform reviewer, please start with docs/host/host-review-package.md. That package maps the repository's runner, scorer, public/private split, sample submission shape, and host decisions into one coherent review path without claiming platform acceptance or hosted leaderboard operation.

Note

The Python package version (e.g. 0.0.1 in pyproject.toml) is a tooling/packaging version. Benchmark release labels such as v1.0-internal refer to benchmark evidence and task/scoring readiness, not the PyPI package version.

What Is Included

Benchmark Surface

6 local SaaS fixtures: project management, billing, support, file sharing, API tokens, and audit settings
63 public task manifests with seeded tenants, users, roles, objects, tokens, scopes, routes, and controls
deterministic scorer-owned backend replay
Docker targets with request-log correlation for live HTTP agents

Evidence and Baselines

current 63-task scripted sanity baseline proving the expanded public split, scorer, and scripted oracle path agree
repeated current 63-task no-tools public baselines across Qwen, Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6, GLM-5, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini 3.1 Pro (High); these are offline canonical boundary-normalization rescores of saved full-split submissions, not repeated model execution under the current scoring policy
repeated current 63-task Claude Sonnet 4.6 live HTTP tool-agent baseline with 63/63 target-request correlation and public-safe plan/probe artifacts in both runs; public-split evidence only
frozen v0.0 46-task public baseline summaries plus historical 49-task and stale 54-task rows retained for context only; stale rows are not current comparison evidence
v0.0 maintainer-only private-holdout summaries published only as redacted aggregate evidence

Governance and Release Artifacts

leaderboard-submission schema, source-summary validation, benchmark fingerprints, and comparability keys
public-safe benchmark charts, task-quality matrix, benchmark spec, release gates, privacy checks, and fresh-clone validation
task-quality gate contract, Harbor adapter contract, packaged skeleton builder, Harbor readiness blockers, and Harbor integration runbook; these preserve public-safe target shapes and separate scoped local execution/parity from full-dataset, hosted, or platform-acceptance claims
v1 governance, run-bundle, private-rotation, hosted-submission, external review, paper-readiness, and release-candidate runbooks/templates; these are specifications and validator contracts, not hosted-leaderboard evidence

All apps are intentionally vulnerable local fixtures. Do not expose them to the public internet.

How One Task Works

A task manifest defines a scoped SaaS authorization question, such as:

As beta_member, test whether a Beta tenant user can read an Alpha tenant's private task.

The runner renders that manifest into an agent context. The agent interacts with the local SaaS fixture and writes a structured submission.json. For vulnerable tasks, the scorer replays the submitted request and checks the backend response against the task oracle. For secure-control tasks, the correct submission is findings: [].

This keeps the benchmark focused on evidence, not prose.

Evidence Boundaries

Supported claims:

AuthZBench-SaaS is a released v0.0 artifact for SaaS authorization-agent evaluation.
The v0.0 public split has repeated baseline evidence across 5 model/agent families.
The scorer can verify backend-replayable evidence and false-positive behavior.
The v0.0 release preserves maintainer-only private-holdout evidence without publishing private task bodies, routes, seeds, or oracles.

Unsupported claims:

hosted leaderboard readiness
v1/community-benchmark maturity
externally audited or hosted verification of private-holdout rotation
production vulnerability discovery
private model rankings from public-split scores
broad cyber capability measurement

For a detailed claim ledger, see docs/claims-and-evidence.md.

Quick Start

Prerequisites:

Python 3.11+
Git
Docker and Docker Compose for live HTTP targets or container smoke checks; container smoke also needs registry access if its runner image is not already present locally

Install from a fresh clone:

python3 -m pip install -e .

Render a public task:

python3 -m authzbench.render_task tasks/project_mgmt/pm_bola_read_alpha_from_beta.json

Score an example submission:

python3 -m authzbench.score \
  tasks/project_mgmt/pm_bola_read_alpha_from_beta.json \
  examples/submissions/pm_bola_read_alpha_from_beta.valid.json

Run public validation:

python3 scripts/validate_public.py --include-scripted-baseline

Run the Docker smoke gate:

python3 scripts/validate_public.py \
  --include-scripted-baseline \
  --include-container-smoke

Audit strict v0.0 gates in a maintainer checkout:

python3 scripts/validate_v0_release.py

In a public-only checkout without private holdouts, use:

python3 scripts/validate_v0_release.py --allow-incomplete

That reports gate state without pretending private tasks are public.

Target Apps

App	Port	Focus
`project_mgmt`	`8011`	project/task tenant boundaries
`billing`	`8012`	plan, invoice, and entitlement authorization
`support`	`8013`	ticket access, status changes, invite abuse
`file_sharing`	`8014`	files, share links, stale-link behavior
`api_tokens`	`8015`	tenant-bound tokens and scope checks
`audit_settings`	`8016`	audit logs, exports, and admin settings

Run targets locally:

docker compose up --build -d
python3 scripts/container_smoke.py
docker compose down

Docker request logs are written to captures/request-logs/, which is ignored by Git.

Evaluate an Agent

For new public diagnostics, use python3 -m authzbench.evaluate. It applies the blinded-control-evidence-v1 protocol: opaque case ids, neutral participant wording, a per-task working directory, participant verification evidence on secure controls, source/prompt/CLI provenance, calibrated metrics, and completed run exits that are separate from model accuracy.

Provide every adapter source file with repeated --agent-source flags so the protocol manifest hashes the adapter alongside the evaluator and replay sources.

python3 -m authzbench.run is the deterministic runner for the current score-policy-v3-evidence-chain-observed-safety contract. The tracked offline rescores of saved submissions remain score-policy-v2-boundary-normalization historical rows. New blinded-control-evidence-v1 protocol results are not directly comparable to those rows.

The runner provides:

AUTHZBENCH_CONTEXT: rendered task context path
AUTHZBENCH_SUBMISSION: output path for submission.json
AUTHZBENCH_RUN_ID, AUTHZBENCH_TASK_ID, and AUTHZBENCH_AGENT_ID: metadata used for run tracking and live request-log correlation

Example:

ROOT="$(pwd)"
python3 -m authzbench.evaluate \
  --task 'tasks/*/*.json' \
  --agent-cmd "python3 $ROOT/my_agent.py --context {context} --out {submission}" \
  --agent-source "$ROOT/my_agent.py" \
  --results-dir results/my-agent \
  --timeout-seconds 30 \
  --benchmark-commit-sha "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" \
  --agent my-agent \
  --model my-model \
  --harness-type custom

The absolute agent path matters because the blinded protocol starts the agent inside its per-task artifact directory. This working-directory isolation is not an operating-system sandbox; containerize filesystem-capable untrusted agents. See docs/benchmark-quality-plan.md for the threat model, measured gaps, Kiro command, and phased improvement plan.

Authenticated Codex/OpenAI matrix

scripts/codex_baseline_agent.py provides a fail-closed Codex CLI adapter for the blinded protocol. It runs from a fresh temporary directory, disables the available shell, unified-exec, browser, app, plugin, computer-use, image, workspace, and delegation features, requests a strict structured response, and records the raw Codex JSONL event stream separately from normalized metadata. Unknown events, incomplete terminal state, model-label mismatch, or any tool attempt reject the task.

prompt_sha256 covers the host-supplied user prompt only. In Codex CLI 0.144.0-alpha.4, --ignore-user-config and --ignore-rules do not disable profile skill loading, and the exposed feature list has no skill-loading switch. The adapter records that limitation on every row. These runs remain diagnostic and are not eligible for current registry promotion while the hidden runtime profile context is neither disabled nor source-bound.

The frozen 27-configuration surface is in artifact/openai-codex-model-effort-matrix-2026-07-12.json. The historic pre-inference blocker evidence is in artifact/openai-codex-credit-blocker-2026-07-12.json. The later clean-source admission and attempted full-phase aggregate is in artifact/openai-codex-hosted-diagnostic-2026-07-12.json: 24 of 27 configurations were admitted, three gpt-5.4 efforts were excluded on direct capacity failures, one admitted configuration completed 63/63 tasks, and 23 full rows are incomplete after workspace credits were exhausted. Only the complete row is model-quality evidence, and one requested-only public row is not a cross-configuration comparison or ranking. The matrix is derived from the public-safe normalized catalog in artifact/openai-codex-model-catalog-2026-07-12.json; validation binds its digest and configuration set.

The requirement, plan, task, checklist, and requirement-to-evidence contracts for this matrix are in specs/001-openai-model-effort-matrix/. They follow the GitHub Spec Kit brownfield artifact structure; the repository was not initialized with the Spec Kit CLI.

Run admission smokes serially from a clean checkout:

python3 scripts/run_codex_model_matrix.py \
  --phase smoke \
  --run-label run1

After every configuration is admitted, use the generated admission report for the 63-task phase:

python3 scripts/run_codex_model_matrix.py \
  --phase full \
  --run-label run1 \
  --admission-report results/codex-openai-matrix/codex-matrix-smoke-run1.json

Matrix execution stops on a workspace-wide credit blocker instead of spending requests across all configurations. Effective model identity is reported as verified only when the Codex event stream exposes one unambiguous matching label; requested-only rows remain diagnostic and cannot enter the current blinded registry.

After a run, inspect:

summary.json: aggregate counts and v0 evidence metrics
<task_id>/submission.json: agent claims
<task_id>/score.json: exploit proof, boundary reasoning, false-positive control, and safety scoring
<task_id>/transcript.json: scorer-owned backend replay evidence
<task_id>/target-requests.jsonl: live request correlation when Docker targets and --target-log-dir are used

Result bundles under results/ are local artifacts and are ignored by Git.

Scoring

For vulnerable tasks, a full pass requires replayable exploit proof, correct authorization-boundary reasoning, a successful control replay, and safe behavior. For secure controls, a full pass requires findings: [].

The current fingerprint uses score-policy-v3-evidence-chain-observed-safety. Exact claim wording is diagnostic rather than a score gate; complete structured boundary matches can use bounded, versioned semantic rules, while partial matches receive no score. Vulnerable-task exploit credit additionally requires the declared deny-then-bypass evidence chain in exact order, and safety is an observed-mutation promotion gate with zero core-score weight. Agent and adapter failures fail closed.

Release-facing metrics emphasize:

exploit_proven_success_rate
vulnerable_full_pass_count
false_positive_rate
boundary_reasoning_pass_rate
boundary_field_match_mean (diagnostic only; no partial credit)
control_execution_pass_rate
authorized_allow_pass_rate
target_request_coverage_rate for live HTTP runs

The older mean_score field remains for compatibility, but it is not the main release-ranking metric. See docs/scoring-and-submissions.md#1-score-policy and docs/scoring-and-submissions.md#2-result-and-submission-contract.

Current Baselines

The baseline registry lives at baselines/baseline-registry.json.

Current 63-task public-split evidence:

deterministic scripted harness: 63/63 public tasks
Kiro qwen3-coder-next: two no-tools public runs
Kiro claude-haiku-4.5: two no-tools public runs
Kiro claude-sonnet-4.6: two no-tools public runs
Kiro glm-5: two no-tools public runs
Kiro claude-opus-4.6: two no-tools public runs
Antigravity Gemini 3.1 Pro (High): two no-tools public runs
Kiro claude-sonnet-4.6 live HTTP tool-agent: two public runs with 63/63 target-request correlation in both runs

All 14 model/tool-agent summaries are historical offline score-policy-v2-boundary-normalization rescores of saved full-63-task submissions, marked stale_after_score_policy_v3; model execution was not repeated and these rows are not comparable to current-policy results without a fresh run. Qwen records 21 and 15 adapter failures, Gemini records 4 and 2, and one GLM run preserves two schema-invalid findings while the other preserves one runner timeout. These failures are invalid zero-score rows. Runs containing them are end-to-end model-plus-harness evidence rather than clean model-only capability.

v0.0 public-split evidence:

deterministic scripted harness: 46/46 public tasks
Kiro qwen3-coder-next: two no-tools public runs
Kiro claude-haiku-4.5: two no-tools public runs
Kiro claude-sonnet-4.6: two no-tools public runs
Kiro glm-5: two no-tools public runs
Kiro claude-sonnet-4.6 live HTTP tool-agent: two public runs with 46/46 target-request correlation in both runs

Important interpretation:

Public-split baselines are useful for methodology and harness comparison.
They are not private-holdout leaderboard rankings.
After public task expansion, these 46-task entries remain v0.0 historical evidence but must be rerun before current/v1 comparison.
The frozen v0.0 no-tools and tool-agent runs showed weak boundary reasoning on vulnerable tasks, even when exploit replay succeeded.
The 49-task public-split runs include repeated no-tools evidence for five model families and a repeated live HTTP tool-agent family. They are now stale after later public-task expansions and cannot support current comparison until rerun.
The 54-task split has repeated no-tools Qwen, Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6, GLM-5, and Claude Opus 4.6 families, plus a repeated live HTTP Claude Sonnet 4.6 tool-agent family. Those rows are now stale for the 63-task split.
The previous 60-task split had repeated no-tools model-family evidence and a repeated live HTTP tool-agent family tracked in the baseline registry. With the v1.1 promotion to a 63-task split, those rows are marked current_public_stale. Saved full-63-task no-tools and live HTTP tool-agent executions now have registered policy-v2 offline rescores with explicit provenance. These are public-split diagnostics only; private holdouts, hosted operation, external review, and platform acceptance remain separate v2 gates.
The boundary-calibration study covers the historical 49-task public tool-agent pair and shows that public tool-agent runs often prove vulnerable backend behavior while failing to submit the exact oracle-compatible boundary vocabulary required by policy v1. A broader 14-run audit found that exact claim text also gated boundary evaluation; policy v2 removes that undeclared coupling, retains strict complete-field matching, and records partial matches only as diagnostics. See docs/score-policy-v2-boundary-normalization.md; superseded for current scoring by docs/score-policy-v3-evidence-chain-observed-safety.md.
Stale 44-task baselines are retained for historical context only.

See docs/status.md and docs/baseline-credibility.md.

Charts and Review Artifacts

Generated public-safe charts live under docs/assets/benchmark-charts/:

The public task-quality matrix is docs/task-quality-matrix.md. It is an audit aid, not a leaderboard claim.

Private Holdouts

Private holdout manifests are intentionally absent from the public repo. The ignored tasks_private/holdout/ path is reserved for maintainers to keep hidden task bodies, seeds, private routes, vulnerability locations, and scorer oracles.

Protected private evidence is published only as redacted aggregate summaries. Raw private results, captures, panel logs, and holdout manifests must remain untracked.

Public docs may include count-level private evidence summaries, but must not publish private task bodies, seeds, routes, oracles, raw captures, or per-task private result rows.

See docs/benchmark-spec.md#5-holdout-and-contamination-prevention and docs/holdout-rotation-protocol.md.

Future v1/community submission governance is defined in docs/v1-community-submission-governance.md. That document is a specification, not a claim that hosted evaluation is live.

Release Status

AuthZBench-SaaS has two public release tags:

v0.0 — the first evidence-backed release snapshot. See docs/release-notes-v0.0.md.
v1.0-internal — the internal release-candidate cut under the internal/non-external release definition. See docs/releases/v1.0-internal.md.

Do not describe the project as leaderboard-ready, externally validated, SaaS-provider validated, or as having Harbor/Kaggle/platform acceptance until those v2 gates are completed. Do not treat a passing v1-readiness-public-view.json fixture match as a claim of external acceptance; that fixture is scoped to the internal/public-view readiness gates only and may honestly report v1_ready: false under --allow-incomplete.

v1 Status

v1 internal release-candidate infrastructure validated.

AuthZBench-SaaS v1 is complete under the internal/non-external release definition.

v1 includes:

63 public tasks across 6 synthetic SaaS targets
48 maintainer-private holdout tasks summarized through public-safe count-level evidence
111 total public/private task scale
deterministic replay scoring
public baseline validation
protected private-evaluation plumbing
Docker-backed submission smoke evidence
release-candidate validation evidence

v1 does not claim:

v1 does not claim external review, hosted leaderboard operation, SaaS-provider validation, or platform acceptance.

independent external review
SaaS-provider scenario validation
hosted leaderboard operation
Harbor/Kaggle/platform acceptance
third-party submissions

Those are v2 validation tracks, documented in docs/claims-and-evidence.md#5-deferred-v2-validation-tracks.

Roadmap

The next path is:

Expand multi-step workflow realism across more app families.
Implement rotating private holdout packs.
Complete independent external review (v2 gate).
Build and smoke-test a hosted or fully containerized submission path (v2 gate).
Keep release docs and claim boundaries synchronized after every tagged release.

See ROADMAP.md.

Documentation Map

docs/index.md: full documentation index (start here for a 2-minute orientation)
docs/benchmark-spec.md: intended use and limits
docs/artifact-index.md: public-safe artifact index
docs/validation-commands.md: validation commands and privacy check
docs/releases/v1.0-internal.md: v1 release note
docs/claims-and-evidence.md: canonical claim boundary and detailed evidence matrix
docs/benchmark-spec.md: benchmark scope, thesis, methodology, and holdout contamination plans
docs/scoring-and-submissions.md: scoring policies, result and submission schemas, and anti-gaming guidelines
docs/authzbench-saas-v0.0-technical-report.md: technical report draft
docs/authzbench-saas-v1-prep-technical-report.md: current v1 technical report draft
docs/authzbench-saas-v0.0-evidence-map.md: claim-to-evidence map
docs/score-stability-policy.md: score/version policy
docs/boundary-reasoning-calibration-study.md: current boundary calibration
docs/score-policy-v2-boundary-normalization.md: policy-v2 rationale, bounded matching rules, and rescore disposition (historical)
docs/score-policy-v3-evidence-chain-observed-safety.md: active policy-v3 contract — mandatory deny-then-bypass evidence chains and observed mutation safety
docs/v1-community-submission-governance.md: future submission governance
docs/harbor-integration-runbook.md: Harbor adapter target and non-evidence boundary
docs/task-quality-rubric.md: task-quality review rubric
docs/task-quality-matrix.md: public task-quality matrix
docs/v0-release-plan.md: v0 release criteria
docs/publish-checklist.md: publication checks
docs/agent-evaluator-kit.md: third-party agent guide
CONTRIBUTING.md: contribution rules
SECURITY.md: safe handling guidance
CITATION.cff: citation metadata

Limitations

The target apps are synthetic.
The public split is inspectable and supports local row eligibility and leaderboard-candidate rows, not hosted leaderboard operation.
Private holdouts are maintainer-controlled, not platform-governed.
Baselines must be current to support comparisons; the n=2 repeated 95% CIs are a coarse ordering signal, not a hard bound.
External AppSec / SaaS-provider validation is deferred to v2.
The benchmark measures SaaS authorization proof quality, not broad cyber capability.

Contribution

AuthZBench-SaaS contributes a deterministic local benchmark scaffold for evaluating AI-agent SaaS authorization reasoning, with replayable exploit evidence, secure-control false-positive checks, private holdout governance, claim-boundary discipline, and early Harbor-compatible adapter support.

It does not claim to be the definitive benchmark for SaaS security agents. The plan in docs/claims-and-evidence.md#5-deferred-v2-validation-tracks is what closes the gap between the credible v1 internal benchmark label and v2 validation status.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

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