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Challenge

Build a Desalination Filter Backwash Planning Workspace

Plan filter backwash windows from supplied inspection thresholds, durations, and available capacity. Show conflicts and reserve shortfalls before engineers approve a simulated maintenance schedule.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Plan filter backwash windows from supplied inspection thresholds, durations, and available capacity. Show conflicts and reserve shortfalls before engineers approve a simulated maintenance schedule.

Pretreatment Operations Engineer

Import synthetic filter readings, capacities, and fictional planning rules.

Flag readings above supplied inspection thresholds without inferring treatment effectiveness.

Schedule candidate windows while checking remaining capacity against supplied demand.

Export proposed windows, capacity conflicts, and unresolved readings for engineer review.

Filter schedule table with capacity charts, editable assumptions, and an engineer review queue.

Create simplified synthetic filter records with pressure readings, fictional thresholds, planned durations, and parallel capacity. These are not WaterTAP model files. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

WaterTAP treatment modeling WaterTAP is an optional treatment-model integration reference. Supplied scheduling rules are fictional, not WaterTAP treatment recommendations.

mastra-ai, pydantic, fastapi. Use the selected framework for evidence-linked planning notes. Calculate capacity constraints in deterministic code. Use a currently available model for planning explanations, not as an engineering solver.

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.

Flags readings above supplied thresholds.

Uses only supplied durations and capacity.

Blocks approval when capacity or duration is missing.

Exports proposed schedules and conflicts.

```json [ { "input": { "filter_id": "MMF-01", "pressure_bar": 1.2, "fictional_threshold_bar": 1, "planned_duration_min": 15, "other_capacity_m3_h": 1000, "demand_m3_h": 800 }, "expected_output": { "threshold_exceeded": true, "candidate_duration_min": 15, "capacity_margin_m3_h": 200, "approval_required": true } }, { "input": { "filter_id": "MMF-02", "pressure_bar": 1.2, "fictional_threshold_bar": 1, "planned_duration_min": 15, "other_capacity_m3_h": 500, "demand_m3_h": 800 }, "expected_output": { "threshold_exceeded": true, "candidate_duration_min": 15, "capacity_margin_m3_h": -300, "schedule_blocked": true, "approval_required": true } } ] ```

Use synthetic records and offline scheduling. Do not command pumps or claim treatment performance. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Use synthetic records and offline scheduling. Do not command pumps or claim treatment performance. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Flags readings above supplied thresholds. Uses only supplied durations and capacity. Blocks approval when capacity or duration is missing. Exports proposed schedules and conflicts.

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 synthetic filter readings, capacities, and fictional planning rules. Flag readings above supplied inspection thresholds without inferring treatment effectiveness. Schedule candidate windows while checking remaining capacity against supplied demand. Export proposed windows, capacity conflicts, and unresolved readings for engineer review.

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

Flags readings above supplied thresholds. Uses only supplied durations and capacity. Blocks approval when capacity or duration is missing. Exports proposed schedules and conflicts.

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

Filter schedule table with capacity charts, editable assumptions, and an engineer review queue.

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

Use synthetic records and offline scheduling. Do not command pumps or claim treatment performance.

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 synthetic filter readings, capacities, and fictional planning rules.

  • Flag readings above supplied inspection thresholds without inferring treatment effectiveness.

  • Schedule candidate windows while checking remaining capacity against supplied demand.

  • Export proposed windows, capacity conflicts, and unresolved readings for engineer review.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Create simplified synthetic filter records with pressure readings, fictional thresholds, planned durations, and parallel capacity. These are not WaterTAP model 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 synthetic filter readings, capacities, and fictional planning rules. Flag readings above supplied in...
  • Flags readings above supplied thresholds. Uses only supplied durations and capacity. Blocks approval when c...
  • Filter schedule table with capacity charts, editable assumptions, and an engineer review queue.
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

No workflow tasks are configured.

Recipe freeze marker

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