diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 12b08a29..468169fd 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
# Contributing To Trace
+## Community
+
+Use [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/maveryn/trace/issues) for concrete,
+scoped work and reproducible bug reports. Use
+[GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/maveryn/trace/discussions) for
+questions, integration ideas, and reproduction reports that are not yet a
+specific change request.
+
## Development Setup
```bash
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c8851fd7..240e2c64 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,14 +7,15 @@ post-training. Each example includes an image, prompt, typed answer,
image-space annotation, verifier metadata, and execution trace. The registry
contains 1,000 tasks across 277 scenes and 11 visual domains.
+Training Qwen2.5-VL-3B and 7B on 64,000 Trace instances improved the
+macro-average across 24 external benchmarks by **+3.51** and **+4.06 percentage
+points**, respectively. [See the transfer results](#external-benchmark-transfer).
+
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@@ -101,6 +102,9 @@ The table reports all 24 external benchmarks for the matched 3B and 7B
comparisons. Parenthesized values are mean seed-paired TRACE-minus-Base changes
in percentage points.
+
+View all 24 benchmark results
+
| Benchmark | 3B Base | 3B TRACE (Δ) | 7B Base | 7B TRACE (Δ) |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
@@ -136,12 +140,18 @@ in percentage points.
| MME-Reasoning | 22.62 ± 1.81 | 25.06 ± 1.53 (+2.44) | 25.17 ± 1.18 | 28.03 ± 0.89 (+2.86) |
+
+
The [research page](docs/research/README.md#external-benchmark-results) includes
the full eight-model comparison. Machine-readable per-seed scores are available
in [`results.json`](https://github.com/maveryn/trace/blob/rlvr/rlvr/evaluation/trace_eval/results.json).
## Released Models
+The [Trace collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/maveryn/trace-6a604291b4be4ed6399b9f24)
+groups the interactive Space, dataset, checkpoints, paper, and evaluation
+artifacts in one place.
+
| Released checkpoint | Base model |
| --- | --- |
| [TRACE Qwen2.5-VL-3B](https://huggingface.co/maveryn/trace-qwen2.5-vl-3b) | [`Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct`](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct) |
@@ -344,7 +354,10 @@ attributions are listed in
## Contributing
See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for setup, testing, review, and pull
-request guidance.
+request guidance. Browse [open issues](https://github.com/maveryn/trace/issues)
+for scoped work, or use
+[Discussions](https://github.com/maveryn/trace/discussions) for questions,
+integration ideas, and reproduction reports.
## Licensing
diff --git a/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md b/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md
index d4b9ed61..1ab6cae7 100644
--- a/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md
+++ b/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
# Development
+## Community
+
+Use [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/maveryn/trace/issues) for concrete,
+scoped work and reproducible bug reports. Use
+[GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/maveryn/trace/discussions) for
+questions, integration ideas, and reproduction reports that are not yet a
+specific change request.
+
## Source Layout
- `src/trace_tasks/core/`: generation, identity, validation, trace, reward, and export infrastructure
diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
index 209f0552..fb9c9629 100644
--- a/docs/README.md
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -26,15 +26,19 @@ hide:
trace.
+
+ Training Qwen2.5-VL-3B and 7B on 64,000 Trace instances improved the
+ macro-average across 24 external benchmarks by +3.51 and
+ +4.06 percentage points, respectively.
+ See the transfer results.
+