Task_files vs world_files?

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by RJT1990 - opened

First, thank you for the great benchmark!

I was wondering what the difference was between the task_files and world_files? In your paper, you say each task is connected to a world (and i can see the world files), but what is the purpose of the task_files here? Where would we put the task_files (if anywhere) on the file system relative to the world files?

Mercor org

Thanks, great question.

  • world_files are the files for each world -- where every task is associated with a single world, and each world supports 10-20 tasks. There are typically several hundred files, reflecting all the files created when the team of professionals executed the project. World files are effectively "frozen" once the project is completed.
  • task_files only exist for some of the tasks. They're specific to the task, and are "net new" content -- i.e., they do not appear in the world. This mimics real-world situations where a worker has some additional information that the agent needs to use to complete a task. For instance, an IB analyst could add a new quarter of results (as a task_file) and ask the agent to update a financial model already in the world (i.e., a world_file) to reflect the new values.

Hope that helps, happy to follow up.

Makes perfect sense, thank you!

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