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Challenge

Build a Coastal Port Breakwater Scour Inspection Dispatcher

Correlate NOAA tidal station surge anomalies with maritime terminal breakwater assets. Construct prioritized underwater dive inspection work orders and defensive rock armoring plans.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Correlate NOAA tidal station surge anomalies with maritime terminal breakwater assets. Construct prioritized underwater dive inspection work orders and defensive rock armoring plans.

Port Infrastructure Inspector

Import port breakwater asset coordinates, armor rock specifications, and past inspection logs.

Fetch recorded water levels and surge anomalies from NOAA Access Data Service API endpoints.

Flag breakwater sections exposed to consecutive hours of extreme surge and wave drawdown.

Generate structured dive inspection orders and rock replacement quantity specifications for port engineers.

Terminal GIS dashboard depicting breakwater alignment, storm surge hydrographs, and scheduled inspection manifests.

Query NOAA Access Data Service (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1) for water level and surge datasets, backed by fixture files. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

NOAA climate services API Consumes NOAA Access Data Service API v1 parameters including stations, startDate, endDate, and dataTypes.

mastra-ai, requests, pydantic. Provides structured TypeScript/Python workflow orchestration with schema-validated outputs for maintenance dispatch. Local or hosted LLM with consistent adherence to maintenance dispatch schemas.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Ingests NOAA station surge data and calculates cumulative wave drag exposure hours.

Triggers dive inspection work orders when cumulative surge exceedance surpasses operational tolerance.

Formats inspection work orders with specific breakwater chainage markers and safety precautions.

```json [ { "input": { "terminal_id": "PORT-SOUTH-JETTY", "station_id": "8771450", "peak_surge_m": 2.4, "duration_above_2m_hours": 14, "threshold_hours": 8, "chainage_start_km": 1.2, "chainage_end_km": 2 }, "expected_output": { "terminal_id": "PORT-SOUTH-JETTY", "dispatch_dive_inspection": true, "inspection_priority": "urgent", "target_zone": { "start_km": 1.2, "end_km": 2 }, "inspection_focus": "toe_berm_scour_and_armor_displacement" } }, { "input": { "terminal_id": "PORT-NORTH-DOCK", "station_id": "8771450", "peak_surge_m": 1.1, "duration_above_2m_hours": 0, "threshold_hours": 8, "chainage_start_km": 0, "chainage_end_km": 0.8 }, "expected_output": { "terminal_id": "PORT-NORTH-DOCK", "dispatch_dive_inspection": false, "inspection_priority": "routine_monitoring", "target_zone": null, "inspection_focus": "none" } } ] ```

Maintenance work orders require sign-off by a licensed civil or marine engineer prior to physical mobilization. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Maintenance work orders require sign-off by a licensed civil or marine engineer prior to physical mobilization. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Ingests NOAA station surge data and calculates cumulative wave drag exposure hours. Triggers dive inspection work orders when cumulative surge exceedance surpasses operational tolerance. Formats inspection work orders with specific breakwater chainage markers and safety precautions.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Import port breakwater asset coordinates, armor rock specifications, and past inspection logs. Fetch recorded water levels and surge anomalies from NOAA Access Data Service API endpoints. Flag breakwater sections exposed to consecutive hours of extreme surge and wave drawdown. Generate structured dive inspection orders and rock replacement quantity specifications for port engineers.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Ingests NOAA station surge data and calculates cumulative wave drag exposure hours. Triggers dive inspection work orders when cumulative surge exceedance surpasses operational tolerance. Formats inspection work orders with specific breakwater chainage markers and safety precautions.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Terminal GIS dashboard depicting breakwater alignment, storm surge hydrographs, and scheduled inspection manifests.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Maintenance work orders require sign-off by a licensed civil or marine engineer prior to physical mobilization.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Import port breakwater asset coordinates, armor rock specifications, and past inspection logs.

  • Fetch recorded water levels and surge anomalies from NOAA Access Data Service API endpoints.

  • Flag breakwater sections exposed to consecutive hours of extreme surge and wave drawdown.

  • Generate structured dive inspection orders and rock replacement quantity specifications for port engineers.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Query NOAA Access Data Service (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1) for water level and surge datasets, backed by fixture files. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Mastra AI

TypeScript agent framework.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Import port breakwater asset coordinates, armor rock specifications, and past inspection logs. Fetch record...
  • Ingests NOAA station surge data and calculates cumulative wave drag exposure hours. Triggers dive inspectio...
  • Terminal GIS dashboard depicting breakwater alignment, storm surge hydrographs, and scheduled inspection ma...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Mastra AI · Optional
Orchestration
  • Mastra AI · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

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Recipe freeze marker

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