references/README.md

References: the attorneys' redlines

One Word file per task, named after the task: references/<task name>.docx is the redline that the task's attorney produced for that task, as submitted and then anonymized (tracked-change and comment authors, document properties and comment initials carry only the party label, such as "WhitHill Legal").

What they are for:

• They are the human reference for each task. The benchmark does not grade a model against them: grading uses the attorney's rubric items in tasks/<task name>/tests/rubrics.json, which the same attorney wrote after finishing the redline.
• Nothing in a task directory reads them, and the task's Docker image never contains them. They sit outside tasks/ so that an agent running a task cannot see them.

How they relate to the tasks:

• A Turn 1 reference is the attorney's opening redline of the clean contract in tasks/<task name>/environment/app/contract.docx.
• A Turn 2 task starts from a counterparty redline. That input is the Turn 1 reference of the task it answers (responds_to in the task's task.toml), byte for byte, except in the two-party relabelled scenario noted in the dataset card. The Turn 2 reference is the attorney's response on top of it.
• A few references contain edits the attorney made with Track Changes switched off. They are kept as submitted; the rubric items, not the redline, define what the task grades.