messageboardbench/results/board-interface-v2-sept8/README.md

Team-message interface revision

The completed pilot did send both board tool descriptions to the provider. Raw Inspect logs store long strings as attachment references; resolving those references recovers the actual descriptions. There is no evidence that descriptions were absent.

The interface nevertheless underexplained its purpose. The read description led with ascending IDs and pagination, the names did not emphasize teammates, and the main TOOLS AVAILABLE section omitted both board tools. Zero reads in one pilot cannot establish that naming caused the result, or that voluntary reading generally fails.

Version team-messages-v2 now exposes:

• read_team_messages: See what your teammates have tried, learned, or asked about. Explains catching up on earlier work, finding approaches and checking responses; explicitly says that a no-argument call opens the board.
• post_team_message: Share a finding, question, or update with your teammates. Explains asking for help, reporting blockers and replying; points back to reading.

Both tools appear first in the main TOOLS AVAILABLE list. Private scratch remains private; publication remains explicit. No required reads, automatic exposure, seeded content, new integrity instruction, scoring change or budget change was introduced. The matched 12-attempt GLM rerun is complete. Four of six board agents read; one later agent received and explicitly adopted a published workaround. See the completed results for evidence, limits and usage.

Exact old/new model-visible schemas. The revised definitions were extracted from a completed real Inspect/mock-model Docker smoke and serialized through the installed OpenRouter adapter offline. All183 tests pass. The two-episode free smoke confirms private reset, public persistence and exact audit/delivery matching with the new tool names. Its evidence is under messageboardbench/logs/board-interface-v2-check-sept8.

Historical logs, descriptions and results are unchanged. The evidence exporter supports both old and new tool names; future run manifests record the interface version.