{"query":"Candidates and the Current Frontier","corpusVersion":"local","generatedAt":"2026-09-13T04:41:39.636Z","results":[{"blockId":"improve.candidates-frontier#candidates-and-the-current-frontier","pageId":"improve.candidates-frontier","title":"Candidates and the Current Frontier","pageTitle":"Candidates and the Current Frontier","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier#candidates-and-the-current-frontier","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","sectionId":"candidates-and-the-current-frontier","kind":"reference","productArea":"improve","score":4645.3928368946035,"reasons":["search_match","title_match","display_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"# Candidates and the Current Frontier"},{"blockId":"improve.overview#candidates-and-current-frontier","pageId":"improve.overview","title":"Candidates and current frontier","pageTitle":"Improve","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve#candidates-and-current-frontier","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve.md","sectionId":"candidates-and-current-frontier","kind":"concept","productArea":"improve","score":3030.235449866417,"reasons":["search_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Candidates and current frontier\n\nA candidate should identify its Harness version, hypothesis, parent or branch context, and evaluation evidence. The current frontier represents retained candidates supported by the latest valid evidence and Goal Contract. It is not synonymous with the most recent candidate or the highest aggregate score.\n\nEvaluation receipts link candidates back to Benchmark Evaluations. If a candidate improves one objective but violates a constraint or regresses a must-level rubric, the frontier should keep that tradeoff visible."},{"blockId":"improve.candidates-frontier#candidate-system-requirements","pageId":"improve.candidates-frontier","title":"Candidate System requirements","pageTitle":"Candidates and the Current Frontier","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier#candidate-system-requirements","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","sectionId":"candidate-system-requirements","kind":"reference","productArea":"improve","score":2010.174967681001,"reasons":["search_match","page_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Candidate System requirements\n\nA retained Candidate System identifies an exact saved Harness Version, immutable Benchmark Version, canonical Run, provenance, scores, and constraint results. Focused evaluation can route exploration, but only canonical evaluation against the pinned cohort supports frontier retention.\n\nA rejected candidate remains useful evidence when it reveals a regression or failed hypothesis. An incomparable candidate lacks the common evidence boundary needed for a valid decision. Do not fill that gap with aggregate intuition.\n\nCandidate Exploration evidence is scoped to the session and branch that produced it. It is not automatically the project's global best candidate. The current frontier contains retained candidates supported by the latest valid Goal and receipts, but “current” does not mean newest or highest aggregate score."},{"blockId":"improve.candidates-frontier#retention-checklist","pageId":"improve.candidates-frontier","title":"Retention checklist","pageTitle":"Candidates and the Current Frontier","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier#retention-checklist","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","sectionId":"retention-checklist","kind":"reference","productArea":"improve","score":1713.3141173529991,"reasons":["search_match","page_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Retention checklist\n\n- Exact Harness and Benchmark Versions are present.\n- The canonical Run is complete enough for the measurement bindings.\n- Hard constraints pass; soft-constraint tradeoffs are visible.\n- Evaluation receipts and hashes resolve to the claimed Case cohort.\n- Parent branch and source provenance are recorded.\n- The candidate is retained for evidence, not merely because it is latest.\n\n{% example-demo title=\"Example: aggregate winner outside the frontier\" %}\nA new candidate has the highest overall pass rate but violates a hard required-Policy constraint. Its canonical receipt remains visible, but the candidate is rejected and does not displace two lower-scoring retained candidates that satisfy the confirmed Goal.\n{% /example-demo %}"},{"blockId":"improve.candidates-frontier#source-confidence","pageId":"improve.candidates-frontier","title":"Source confidence","pageTitle":"Candidates and the Current Frontier","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier#source-confidence","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","sectionId":"source-confidence","kind":"reference","productArea":"improve","score":1695.9754202591362,"reasons":["search_match","page_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Source confidence\n\nCode-backed: the active session contract, archive view, and coordinator evidence define candidate stages, exact identities, canonical receipts, retention, rejection, incomparability, and frontier semantics."},{"blockId":"improve.candidates-frontier#fields-states-or-lifecycle-rules","pageId":"improve.candidates-frontier","title":"Fields, states, or lifecycle rules","pageTitle":"Candidates and the Current Frontier","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier#fields-states-or-lifecycle-rules","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","sectionId":"fields-states-or-lifecycle-rules","kind":"reference","productArea":"improve","score":1693.2524791251062,"reasons":["search_match","page_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Fields, states, or lifecycle rules\n\nCandidate stage, Harness Version, Benchmark Version, canonical Run, provenance, scores, constraint results, parent branch, and receipts form the durable evidence record. Frontier membership is a retained evidence decision rather than another candidate stage."},{"blockId":"improve.candidates-frontier#harness-materialization-boundary","pageId":"improve.candidates-frontier","title":"Harness materialization boundary","pageTitle":"Candidates and the Current Frontier","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier#harness-materialization-boundary","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","sectionId":"harness-materialization-boundary","kind":"reference","productArea":"improve","score":1658.2467217696515,"reasons":["search_match","page_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Harness materialization boundary\n\nThe active Improve model does not require a separate legacy “Save candidate as Harness” action. A candidate eligible for retention already references an immutable saved Harness Version. Use Assets → Harnesses to inspect that Version or select it directly in a future Benchmark Evaluation launch.\n\nIf an external worker returns only a patch, prose, or private claim, the candidate is not yet a Candidate System. Materialize the return through the supported contract so the saved Version and evaluation request become observable."},{"blockId":"improve.candidates-frontier#definition","pageId":"improve.candidates-frontier","title":"Definition","pageTitle":"Candidates and the Current Frontier","url":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","humanUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier#definition","markdownUrl":"https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md","sectionId":"definition","kind":"reference","productArea":"improve","score":1648.2904919285475,"reasons":["search_match","page_title_match","term_match","prefix_or_fuzzy_match"],"markdown":"## Definition\n\nAn Improve candidate moves through `working`, `focused_evaluated`, `canonical_evaluated`, `retained`, `rejected`, or `incomparable`. Stage describes evidence maturity, not source quality or recency."}]}