diff --git a/eval_protocol/cli_commands/create_rft.py b/eval_protocol/cli_commands/create_rft.py
index 320f184b..f95ccdcc 100644
--- a/eval_protocol/cli_commands/create_rft.py
+++ b/eval_protocol/cli_commands/create_rft.py
@@ -634,6 +634,9 @@ def _create_rft_job(
 
     args_dict = vars(args)
     for name in signature.parameters:
+        # Do NOT let raw CLI args overwrite the normalized resources passed into this function.
+        if name in ("dataset", "evaluator"):
+            continue
         prefix = name + "_"
 
         # Collect "flattened" argparse fields back into the nested dict expected by the SDK.