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Challenge

Build an Employee Onboarding Coordination Agent

Build an agent that coordinates approvals, equipment, training, and account requests from a new-hire record. Give each team an owned task list and show blockers, completion evidence, and start-date changes.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

An operations team preparing new employees for their first day.

Build an agent that coordinates approvals, equipment, training, and account requests from a new-hire record. Give each team an owned task list and show blockers, completion evidence, and start-date changes.

New-hire record

Role-based onboarding checklist

Task dependencies and team capacities

Create tasks from the approved onboarding checklist.

Assign owners and order dependent tasks.

Track updates from mock HR, IT, and delivery systems.

Replan incomplete work when dates or approvals change.

An onboarding board with task owners, deadlines, dependencies, blockers, and a first-day readiness summary.

Create the board, allow T2 and T4 to start, keep T3 blocked, and update readiness when the laptop is prepared.

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 { "hire": { "id": "H1", "role": "support", "start_date": "2026-10-01" }, "tasks": [ { "id": "T1", "name": "Manager approval", "owner": "Manager", "depends_on": [], "status": "complete" }, { "id": "T2", "name": "Prepare laptop", "owner": "IT", "depends_on": [ "T1" ], "status": "pending" }, { "id": "T3", "name": "Dispatch laptop", "owner": "Logistics", "depends_on": [ "T2" ], "status": "pending" }, { "id": "T4", "name": "Schedule training", "owner": "People Ops", "depends_on": [ "T1" ], "status": "pending" } ] } ```

Use fictional employees and mock systems. Do not ship equipment, sign documents, or create real accounts. Choose an available model that supports your implementation. Record its identifier and version.

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

Every task has an owner and a dependency state.

T3 cannot complete before T2.

Readiness identifies incomplete tasks rather than claiming the hire is ready. Add one normal case, one incomplete-input case, and one failure-recovery case.

Rules

Participation guide

Use fictional employees and mock systems. Do not ship equipment, sign documents, or create real accounts.

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

  • Create tasks from the approved onboarding checklist.

  • Assign owners and order dependent tasks.

  • Track updates from mock HR, IT, and delivery systems.

  • Replan incomplete work when dates or approvals change.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Supplied fictional starter records: New-hire record, Role-based onboarding checklist, Task dependencies and team capacities. 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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