# Goal Contracts

> Bind an Improvement Session to exact targets, measurable objectives, constraints, and permitted intervention scope.

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## Current Context
- [Goal Contracts](https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/goal-contracts.md): Bind an Improvement Session to exact targets, measurable objectives, constraints, and permitted intervention scope.
- [Improve](https://teammately.ai/docs/improve.md): Coordinate durable Improvement Sessions from pinned benchmark evidence through Goal Contracts, candidates, evaluations, trajectories, and frontiers.
- [Start an Improvement Session](https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/start-improvement-session.md): Start from benchmark evidence, prepare a measurable Goal Contract, and choose bounded Work or Evolve behavior.
- [Candidates and the Current Frontier](https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/candidates-and-frontier.md): Interpret candidate stages, canonical receipts, constraints, retained Candidate Systems, and the current frontier.

## Optional
- [Full local context](https://teammately.ai/docs/improve/goal-contracts/llms-full.txt): Complete local context pack for this docs route.