Long-Context Agentic Instruction Following
HANDBOOK.md Agents
Can an agent follow a 100-page company handbook inside an enterprise RL environment?
HANDBOOK.md is a benchmark for long-context agentic instruction following, modeled on how professionals follow corporate policy in their day-to-day work. Each task is a unique RL environment with internal tools and external MCP servers, across five enterprise domains.
HANDBOOK.md Agents Leaderboard
1

Claude
Fable 5.1 (Adaptive/Max)
38.8
%
1

Claude
Fable 5 (Adaptive/Max)
36.2
%
1

Claude
Opus 5 (Adaptive/Max)
32.3
%
1

Grok
4.6 (xHigh reasoning)
27.3
%
1

DeepSeek
V4 Pro (Max reasoning)
26.9
%
1

GPT
5.6 Sol (Max reasoning)
23.5
%
1

DeepSeek
V4 Flash Vision (experimental) (Max reasoning)
23.1
%
1

Claude
Opus 4.8 (Adaptive/Max)
21.9
%
1

GPT
5.5 (xHigh reasoning)
21.5
%
1

Qwen
3.8 Max (xHigh reasoning)
16.5
%
1

Grok
4.5 (High reasoning)
15.8
%
1

Muse
Spark 1.3 (xHigh reasoning)
15.4
%
1

GLM
5.3 (Max reasoning)
15.0
%
1

Muse
Spark 1.1 (xHigh reasoning)
13.5
%
1

Muse
Spark 1.2 (xHigh reasoning)
13.1
%
1

Kimi
K3 (Max reasoning)
11.9
%
1

Gemini
3.5 Flash (High reasoning)
11.2
%
1

Gemini
3.7 Flash (High reasoning)
10.8
%
1

Gemini
3.8 Flash (High reasoning)
10.8
%
1

Claude
Sonnet 4.6 (Adaptive/Max)
10.4
%
1

GLM
5.3 Flash (Max reasoning)
10.4
%
1

GLM
5.2 (xHigh reasoning)
10.0
%
1

Gemini
3.1 Pro (High reasoning)
10.0
%
1

DeepSeek
V4 Pro (preview) (xHigh reasoning)
9.2
%
1

Qwen
3.7 Max (Thinking on)
8.5
%
1

Hy
Hy3 (High reasoning)
7.7
%
1

DeepSeek
V4 Flash (preview) (xHigh reasoning)
7.3
%
1

DeepSeek
V4 Flash (xHigh reasoning)
7.3
%
1

Kimi
K2.6 (Thinking on)
6.9
%
1

Gemini
3.6 Flash (High reasoning)
5.0
%
1

Muse
Glimmer 30B (xHigh reasoning)
3.5
%
1

Gemini
3.5 Flash-Lite (High reasoning)
3.1
%
1

Inkling
Inkling (xHigh reasoning)
2.3
%
1

Grok
4.3 (High reasoning)
1.9
%
1

Nemotron
3 Ultra
1.5
%
1

Inkling
Small (xHigh reasoning)
1.2
%
1

Nemotron
Lightning 3.5 30B A3B (Thinking on)
0.0
%
