diff --git a/examples/afl.yaml b/examples/afl.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7f3b68ee43af07bdcaea891ad9dbe40b48aecc3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/afl.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+name: 'baseline afl config'
+
+fuzzing-time: '60 minutes'
+input-timeout: '30 seconds'
+memory-limit: '50 MB'
+num-cores: 2
diff --git a/examples/gzip-config.yaml b/examples/gzip-config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a0cfd68d302852d4a63e2651d9ee8b799b4c229
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/gzip-config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+
+name: "gzip config"
+
+preserve-program-name: false
diff --git a/examples/gzip-seed.yaml b/examples/gzip-seed.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e9d579e2941a8144714a914918379db6a39cc7f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/gzip-seed.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+
+name: "simple gzip"
+
+cmdline : 
+        - filename: '/tmp/input'
+
+env: 
+        - "LC_ALL="
+
+files:
+        -  name: "/tmp/input"
+           contents: "aaa"
+           permissions: "rw"
+
+network:
+
diff --git a/examples/ls-seed.yaml b/examples/ls-seed.yaml
index 683f6f19170c746cd90f7a7b64c7f41b47197c7a..1b1297e597505a65037f12c8c89acf656d95dd68 100644
--- a/examples/ls-seed.yaml
+++ b/examples/ls-seed.yaml
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 
-name: "ls -l /tmp/passwd"
+name: "long ls"
 
 cmdline : 
         - '-l' 
-        - '/tmp/password'
-
+        - filename: '/tmp/password'
 
 env: 
         - "LC_ALL="
@@ -15,3 +14,4 @@ files:
            permissions: "rw"
 
 network:
+