Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
Trending on Hacker News: Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents (271 points / 170 comments, via arxiv.org)
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Abstract page for arXiv paper 2607.25398: HANDBOOK.md: A Benchmark for Long-Context Agentic Instruction Following
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Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Sushant Mehta [ view email ] [v1] Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:58:07 UTC (57 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled HANDBOOK.md: A Benchmark for Long-Context Agentic Instruction Following, by Liudas Panavas and 6 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.AI < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-07 Change to browse by: cs cs.CL References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading… BibTeX formatted citation × loading…
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