Program
Project A: Applied Validation
Project AValidation in progress
Applied Validation
A managed technical delivery demonstration for selecting and validating independently developed Terminal-Bench‑style engineering tasks. The goal is a defensible release record for every accepted task package.
Applied Validation is independently developed and is not the official Terminal-Bench dataset; no endorsement or affiliation is implied. “Terminal-Bench‑style” describes only the terminal task pattern. Candidate, selected, validated, independently reviewed, and released are distinct states.
Program definition.
The public record begins with scope: what is being evaluated, what the numbers mean, and which decision the evidence supports.
Work type
Independently developed, terminal-based engineering tasks following a Terminal-Bench-style operating pattern
Candidate source
448 reported authored records requiring task-level provenance, rights, semantic-uniqueness, and execution review
Target collection
100 candidates selected through a recorded rubric; selection does not equal validation or release
Evaluation unit
One frozen task contract, environment, reference path, evaluator, control set, and attempt ledger
Primary decision
Whether the package validly measures a meaningful engineering capability under reproducible conditions
Current analysis
Program-level method and reported supply figures only; no task is publicly represented as released
A task earns its place.
Rights, technical validity, reproducibility, and independent review must all resolve before release.
Rights and provenance
Evidence must show that Applied may inspect, modify, demonstrate, and supply the task. Uncertain assets remain quarantined.
Semantic originality
Review must establish that the capability and solution space are meaningfully distinct, not merely renamed.
Professional realism
Review must establish that success represents credible engineering work rather than artificial difficulty or benchmark trivia.
Discoverable contract
Review must confirm that requirements, constraints, allowed actions, and acceptance criteria are complete and aligned.
Reproducible environment
Replay must confirm pinned dependencies, repeatable state, reliable reset behavior, health checks, and adequate resources.
Evaluator validity
Controls must show that reference and legitimate alternatives pass while no-op, shortcut, and incomplete solutions fail.
Justified difficulty
Analysis must show that failure reflects technical reasoning rather than ambiguity, drift, inadequate resources, or infrastructure.
Independent acceptance
A qualified non-author reviewer must reproduce the evidence, challenge the result, and record the decision.
Training-use separation
Evaluation, training, private holdout, and public demonstration uses must be separately authorized, versioned, and protected from leakage.
Every state is earned.
Status reflects the last completed gate for that task, never the strength of another example.
Candidate
Records identity, source, authorship, rights posture, and technical category for the task.
Selected
Confirms originality, realism, feasibility, and risk against the recorded selection rubric.
Validated
Confirms contract, environment, evaluator, controls, and requirement-to-test alignment for the task.
Replayed
Confirms reference behavior, controls, reset path, and artifacts in a clean environment.
Independently reviewed
Confirms non-author review of alternatives, shortcuts, boundaries, resources, and failure labels.
Released
Publishes the approved package, evidence, limitations, version, and accountable disposition together.
Acceptance-ready package.
The task is one artifact inside a larger, versioned technical record.
Contract
User-visible objective, starting state, constraints, permitted tools, and acceptance criteria.
Environment
Pinned build inputs, setup and reset instructions, health checks, network policy, and resource profile.
Reference
Verified expected behavior plus legitimate alternatives where the contract permits more than one solution shape.
Evaluator
Requirement-to-test mapping, scoring behavior, artifact checks, and fail-closed handling for invalid states.
Controls
Reference, no-op, incomplete, shortcut, boundary, adversarial, and regression cases.
Attempts
Model, harness, tool access, version, outcome, invalid trials, retries, interventions, and final artifacts.
Review
Findings, corrections, disagreements, limitations, reviewer identity, and release disposition.
Training-use record
Permitted use, split assignment, reward definition, preference source, leakage checks, and export version.
What stops a release.
A task is held back whenever its specification, rights, environment, or evaluator cannot support a defensible result.
- Ambiguous, contradictory, or incomplete requirements
- Unresolved provenance, ownership, or usage rights
- An evaluator tied to one implementation shape
- Unreliable setup, reset behavior, or dependency resolution
- Difficulty caused by infrastructure rather than technical reasoning
- Credit for shortcuts, no-ops, or incomplete work
Current public boundary.
The 448 records describe the reported candidate supply pool. The 100 figure describes the proposed selection target. Public release counts will be added only when corresponding rights, replay, review, and version evidence exists.
- Shown now
- Program design, controls, evidence schema, and release gates
- Not claimed
- 100 production-ready tasks, buyer acceptance, official benchmark inclusion, or completed frontier analysis