README.md

metadata

configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: test
        path: tasks.jsonl
tags:
  - agents
  - tool-use
  - retrieval
  - synthetic
pretty_name: Knowledge-Worker Search Bench

Knowledge-Worker Search Bench

40 multi-channel retrieval tasks over realistic synthetic knowledge-worker environments, generated with Tonic Fabricate.

Each task drops an agent into one persona's work world — mail (Outlook or Gmail), Slack, Google Docs, calendar, attachments — and asks a question a real chief-of-staff-style assistant would get: "brief me for tomorrow's sync", "where did we land on the renewal, and what forced the timeline?". Answering requires finding and synthesizing evidence scattered across channels; grading is per-claim (an LLM judge checks each rubric claim is conveyed and grounded in cited artifacts).

Code, docs, and eval harness: github.com/TonicAI/knowledge_worker_search_bench (a verifiers environment). This dataset stores the tasks and the environment data; the GitHub repo is the central source.

Contents

path	what it is
tasks.jsonl	the 40 tasks, one browsable row each (prompt, rubric claims, evidence ids, difficulty, reference rewards)
tasks/<task_id>.json	full runtime task specs (what the harness loads)
<persona>.db	10 persona SQLite environments — mail, Slack, docs, calendar tables the agent's tools query

Row schema (tasks.jsonl)

• task_id, persona, shape (multi_hop_chain 32 / thread_synthesis 6 / attachment_lookup 2), difficulty (easy 20 / medium 18 / hard 2, banded by mean reward across a six-model panel), today (the persona's current date)
• system — persona framing; prompt — the user request + output contract
• rubric_claims — what a correct answer must convey; evidence_artifact_ids — where the ground truth lives (resolvable in the persona DB); evidence_channels — channel spread of the evidence
• reference_rewards — per-task rewards from the published six-model panel (unified per-claim grader, single rollout)

Reference results

model	mean reward	pass@1
gpt-5.5	0.92	62.5%
claude-opus-4.7	0.89	70.0%
claude-sonnet-4.6	0.70	30.0%
claude-haiku-4.5	0.56	20.0%
gpt-5.4-mini	0.46	12.5%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	0.39	17.5%

Every task is verified solvable (≥1 frontier model scores ≥0.8), yet the slate separates models cleanly.

The environments

Persona DBs are fully synthetic worlds: consistent orgs, characters, storylines, and timelines woven across outlook__* / gmail__* / slack__* / google_docs__* / *calendar__* tables. No real people, companies, or data. The eval harness exposes them through read-only product-shaped tools (search/read for each channel + attachment parsers); agents never query SQL directly.

Usage

# Browse tasks
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("TonicAI/knowledge-worker-search-bench", split="test")

# Run the eval (see the GitHub repo)
pip install knowledge-worker-search-bench  # or: pip install -e . from the repo
python scripts/run_eval.py --models claude-haiku-4-5

The harness resolves persona DBs and task specs from this dataset automatically via huggingface_hub when they aren't bundled locally.