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Challenge

Build an Employee Access Request and Lifecycle Agent

Build an agent that converts employee access requests and job changes into policy-checked provisioning plans. Collect approvals, apply changes to mock accounts, and show the resulting permissions with an audit trail.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

An IT team processing access requests and employee changes.

Build an agent that converts employee access requests and job changes into policy-checked provisioning plans. Collect approvals, apply changes to mock accounts, and show the resulting permissions with an audit trail.

Employee lifecycle events

Role-to-permission rules

Approval records and current accounts

Validate identity and the latest lifecycle state.

Compute required permission changes from the role policy.

Collect required approvals.

Apply approved changes in the mock identity store and verify the final state.

An access request queue with current and proposed permissions, approval controls, and verification logs.

Remove the sales permissions, grant tickets-read in the mock store, and show the verified before-and-after state.

A working local application with the specified review interface.

Source code, dependency lockfile, and setup commands.

A recorded end-to-end demo using the supplied starter data.

Example outputs, action logs, and automated tests.

These fictional records are a small development fixture, not a production dataset. Implement the mock services described in the brief.

```json { "employee": { "id": "E1", "event": "transfer", "new_role": "support" }, "current_permissions": [ "sales-read", "sales-write" ], "role_policy": { "support": [ "tickets-read" ] }, "approval": { "approved": true, "employee_id": "E1", "role": "support" } } ```

Use mock identities only. Do not connect real administrator credentials. Choose an available model that supports your implementation. Record its identifier and version.

Review the complete application, not only the starter-case answers.

The final permissions contain only tickets-read.

The approval matches the employee and requested role.

Repeated processing does not create extra grants. Add one normal case, one incomplete-input case, and one failure-recovery case.

Rules

Participation guide

Use mock identities only. Do not connect real administrator credentials.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Review workflow completion, interface usability, evidence quality, and safe failure handling. No agent execution has been verified.

Submission format

A working local application with the specified review interface. Source code, dependency lockfile, and setup commands. A recorded end-to-end demo using the supplied starter data. Example outputs, action logs, and automated tests.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

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

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Validate identity and the latest lifecycle state.

  • Compute required permission changes from the role policy.

  • Collect required approvals.

  • Apply approved changes in the mock identity store and verify the final state.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Supplied fictional starter records: Employee lifecycle events, Role-to-permission rules, Approval records and current accounts. The overview includes the complete JSON bundle. Implement local mock services and extend the sample coverage.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

LangGraph

Runtime for stateful agent workflows.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • No evaluation checks are configured.
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • 1 configured tool

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

Orchestration
  • LangGraph ยท Optional

Evaluation contract

  • No evaluation checks are configured.

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

No workflow tasks are configured.

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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