Challenge

Build a Cross-Border Sanctions Triage Agent with Claude Agents SDK and Devin

Lifting or re-imposing international state sanctions requires rapid reconfiguration of global payment screening engines. Develop a Claude Agents SDK agent using Cognition Devin workflows to evaluate cross-border transactions against evolving OFAC and UN regulatory directives. Achieve sub-100ms classification latency while maintaining zero false negatives for sanctioned entities.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Construct an autonomous sanctions compliance triage system using Claude Agents SDK and Cognition Devin to parse dynamic policy updates and filter transaction streams.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Verify that updated state policy shifts dynamically change agent transaction approvals without manual system restarts.

Datasets

Shared data for this challenge

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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
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Zero Sanction Leakage

Ensures no transactions from active prohibited entity list are approved.

Binary check

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

Dimension 2

False Negative Rate

Rate of non-compliant transactions accidentally approved. • target: 0 • range: 0-0

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

  • Implement sanctions rules dynamic reloading using Claude Agents SDK

  • Automate code patch updates in payment gatekeepers via Cognition Devin

  • Ensure real-time parsing of ISO 20022 payment messages against dynamic watchlists

  • Evaluate cross-border routing risks when sovereign entity classifications change

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Synthetic benchmark of 2,500 ISO 20022 cross-border payment XML payloads targeting sanctioned and recently un-sanctioned jurisdictions.

How this agent runs

Verify that updated state policy shifts dynamically change agent transaction approvals without manual system restarts.

Challenge input

JSON containing sender_country, receiver_country, intermediary_banks, and payload_details.

Claude Agents SDK

Provides rigorous extended thinking for complex legal and regulatory decision trees.

Cognition Devin

Automates updating rules engines and screening microservices in code repositories.

Evaluated output

JSON with decision ('APPROVE', 'HOLD', 'REJECT'), policy_applied, and confidence.

Checks for
  • Ensures no transactions from active prohibited entity list are approved.
  • Rate of non-compliant transactions accidentally approved. • target: 0 • range: 0-0
Proof of success
  • Benchmark: SanctionsComplianceBench
  • False Negative Rate target: 0%
  • 1 public reference case
Runtime evidence
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)
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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Claude Code · Required
  • Cognition Devin · Optional
Observation
  • Claude Code · Required
  • Cognition Devin · Optional
Policy Serving
  • Claude 4.1 Opus · Optional
Orchestration
  • Cognition Devin · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Zero Sanction Leakage · Weight 1
  • False Negative Rate · Weight 1

Recipe state

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