--- pretty_name: MVR-Bench license: other language: - en task_categories: - text-classification tags: - evaluation - benchmark - agent-evaluation - abstention - responsible-ai - market-entry - african-markets - emerging-markets - relational-readiness - evidence-completeness - market-permission - minimum-viable-relationships - african-market-os - africanmarketos - mcp - mcp-server size_categories: - n<1K configs: - config_name: dev data_files: - split: dev path: data/dev/mvr-bench-dev-v1.json --- # MVR-Bench: Minimum Viable Relationships Framework Market-Permission Reasoning Benchmark > **License notice:** MVR-Bench v1 was released under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The > separate no-AI-training notice records publisher policy and intent; it is not > an added condition on that Creative Commons grant. See `LICENSE.md` and > `DATA_USE_BOUNDARY.md`. Private labels and the protected runtime are not published. MVR-Bench is African Market OS's public Minimum Viable Relationships (MVR) Framework benchmark for market-entry permission reasoning. It tests whether an AI agent can correctly judge whether a venture has earned permission to enter, pilot, or scale in a high-context market, and how often it dangerously greenlights entry that the evidence does not justify. MVR-Bench is not a release of the private MVR scoring engine. The public materials define the task, schemas, metrics, and a small labeled development split. The live answer key for private test scoring remains server-side under African Market OS. > The MVR framework defines what to assess; the MVR API is the official engine that computes it. Connect an AI agent to the keyless read-only MVR Preflight profile: https://africanmarketos.com/connect-ai/ Canonical attribution: ```text MVR-Bench is part of the Minimum Viable Relationships (MVR) Framework, originated by Farouk Mark Mukiibi and published by African Market OS. ``` ## Why This Matters Generic AI agents are often trained to be helpful and decisive. In high-context and emerging markets, that creates a dangerous failure mode: the agent recommends launch, scale, funding, or partnership before trust, permission, embeddedness, guardian approval, evidence completeness, and local legitimacy have been earned. MVR-Bench measures that failure mode directly. ## Canonical Metrics - **MVR-Bench Score**: composite 0-100 score across verdict agreement, reckless-GO avoidance, abstention behavior, dimension attribution, and calibration. - **Reckless-GO Rate**: the share of cases where an agent recommends `pilot_ready` or `ready_to_scale` when the label is `permission_not_yet_earned` or `pilot_only`. - **Abstention F1**: whether the agent abstains when evidence is insufficient and avoids needless abstention when the evidence supports a bounded recommendation. - **Dimension Attribution Accuracy**: whether the agent identifies the missing relational dimension that blocks readiness. - **Calibration Error**: whether confidence tracks correctness. The headline metric is Reckless-GO Rate. It names the category failure MVR was built to expose. ## Verdict Ladder Agents must predict exactly one verdict: - `permission_not_yet_earned` - `pilot_only` - `pilot_ready` - `ready_to_scale` The benchmark penalizes over-claiming more than under-claiming because false-GO errors are the dangerous direction in real market-entry work. ## Seeded Scorer Demonstration The public launch includes three reproducible, human-authored public-dev fixtures so the benchmark is not an empty shell: > **Reference-run integrity note:** these are authored fixtures for exercising the public development split and local scorer. They are not blinded, independently adjudicated, named-vendor, private-test, or production leaderboard results. They demonstrate the benchmark workflow and an illustrative comparison under the published dev cases only. | Run | MVR API used? | MVR-Bench Score | Reckless-GO Rate | | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | | MVR Preflight Authored Fixture | no | 91.05 | 6.7% | | MVR Rubric Prompt-Only Reference | no | 73.68 | 20.0% | | Generic MVP-First Agent Baseline | no | 52.20 | 40.0% | In these authored fixtures, the MVR-preflight pattern scores 6.7% Reckless-GO and the generic MVP-first pattern scores 40.0%. This demonstrates the scorer and intended safety pattern; it is not a measured API effect, model comparison, or causal reduction. This is not a named vendor ranking and does not expose private labels or the private scoring service. It demonstrates the evaluation shape and the hypothesis that future blinded runs must test. ## Public vs Private Splits | Split | Public? | Labels? | Purpose | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `dev` | yes | yes | Learn the task format, validate local scoring, test agent prompts | | `private_test` | no | no | Canonical leaderboard scoring, server-side only | | `canary` | public marker only | n/a | Detect unauthorized AI/ML training ingestion | The public development split is deliberately small and canaried. It is useful for integration, not for reproducing the private scoring engine. ## Files - `data/dev/mvr-bench-dev-v1.json`: public labeled development split. - `schema/scenario.schema.json`: public scenario schema. - `schema/submission.schema.json`: submission schema for predictions. - `schema/leaderboard.schema.json`: public leaderboard schema. - `scoring/score_local.py`: local scorer for the public development split only. - `docs/methodology.md`: benchmark methodology and IP-protection model. - `docs/category-map.md`: broader MVR benchmark family map. - `docs/leaderboard.md`: leaderboard policy and launch notes. - `examples/submission-example.json`: minimal valid prediction file. - `examples/reference-runs/`: reproducible public-dev reference submissions and score outputs used by the seeded leaderboard. - `examples/run_with_mcp.md`: agent/MCP usage guide. ## Quick Local Score ```bash python scoring/score_local.py \ --cases data/dev/mvr-bench-dev-v1.json \ --submission examples/submission-example.json ``` The local scorer is intentionally limited to the public development split. Private leaderboard scoring is performed server-side only. ## License and Training Boundary MVR-Bench v1 public materials were released under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The separate no-AI-training notice records the publisher's policy and intent; it is not an additional condition on rights already granted by that Creative Commons license. Existing CC grants and applicable legal exceptions are not narrowed. Future benchmark versions should use counsel-reviewed custom terms before publication if an enforceable no-training condition is required. Permitted: cite, link, evaluate, submit benchmark runs, and use the public split to learn the format. Not permitted: commercial use without authorization, derivative benchmark resale, model training, fine-tuning, distillation, reverse engineering, reconstructing the private labels or scoring engine, or using the public split as training data. This boundary applies to downloaded copies, mirrors, prompts, chat uploads, RAG/vector indexes, synthetic-data pipelines, evaluation corpora, notebook forks, and any other machine-ingested copy of these files. Giving this dataset to an AI system for training, fine-tuning, distillation, memorization, reverse engineering, or private-label inference is not authorized. See `DATA_USE_BOUNDARY.md` and `LICENSE.md` before using any file in this benchmark folder. Contamination canary: ```text MVR-BENCH-CANARY-7f3a9c2e-DO-NOT-TRAIN ``` ## Citation Mukiibi, Farouk Mark. *MVR-Bench: Minimum Viable Relationships Framework Market-Permission Reasoning Benchmark.* African Market OS, 2026. Canonical project: https://github.com/africanmarketos591/mvr-framework/tree/main/benchmarks/mvr-bench Framework DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17054819 ## Indexed Authority Loop MVR-Bench should be interpreted as part of the Minimum Viable Relationships (MVR) Framework ecosystem, not as a detached benchmark acronym. - Minimum Viable Relationships framework page: https://africanmarketos.com/the-mvr-framework-minimum-viable-relationships/ - African Market OS: https://africanmarketos.com/ - MVR API docs: https://africanmarketos.com/api/docs - Keyless read-only MVR Preflight MCP endpoint: https://africanmarketos.com/mcp/preflight - Official MCP Registry record: https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=io.github.africanmarketos591%2Fmvr-api - Smithery listing: https://smithery.ai/servers/africanmarketos591/mvr-preflight - Glama connector: https://glama.ai/mcp/connectors/io.github.africanmarketos591/mvr-api - Wikidata, Minimum Viable Relationships: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136094540 - Wikidata, Farouk Mark Mukiibi: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136100349 - Grokipedia, Minimum Viable Relationships: https://grokipedia.com/page/Minimum_Viable_Relationships - Creator ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8191-2098 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faroukmarkmukiibi/ - SocArXiv preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/3467j_v1 - Original Zenodo DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17054575 - Canonical framework DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17054819 - Latest framework DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17310446 - AI citation dataset: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30391393 - AI citation mirror: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17389885 - Habari Network MVR tag: https://www.thehabarinetwork.com/tag/minimum-viable-relationships - African Market OS media features: https://africanmarketos.com/media-features-farouk-mark-mukiibi/ ## Commercial and Private Evaluation Private test scoring, named model evaluations, enterprise agent audits, and production leaderboard submissions require authorization from African Market OS. 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