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Build Heritage Zoning Preservation Assistant using Claude Agents SDK

Historic urban regeneration projects—such as King's Cross—require strict compliance with historical preservation guidelines when repurposing heritage assets. Developers will build a heritage preservation assistant using Claude Agents SDK. The agent cross-references proposed architectural modifications against local heritage listing guidelines, flagging prohibited facade alterations, non-compliant materials, or unauthorized structural changes.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Develop an autonomous heritage preservation inspection agent using Claude Agents SDK to audit urban regeneration plans.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates accuracy of heritage violation identification and required approval recommendations.

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

Violation Flagging

Verifies that UPVC material on Grade II* asset triggers approval failure

Binary check

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

Dimension 2

Violation Recall

Recall accuracy for heritage guideline breaches • target: 0.95 • range: 0-1

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

  • Configure Claude Agents SDK to parse historical building protection registers

  • Build custom audit tools to detect non-compliant architectural materials

  • Generate detailed preservation variance application summaries for local planning boards

  • Evaluate structural modification proposals against Grade I/II listing constraints

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Dataset of 35 historic building preservation filings and architectural alteration plans.

Challenge setup

Evaluates accuracy of heritage violation identification and required approval recommendations.

Challenge input

JSON with listing_grade, proposed_facade_material, glazing_type, structural_expansion_pct

Claude Agents SDK

Required framework for heritage agent.

Evaluated output

JSON with approved (boolean), violations, required_approvals

Evaluation checks
  • Verifies that UPVC material on Grade II* asset triggers approval failure
  • Recall accuracy for heritage guideline breaches • target: 0.95 • range: 0-1
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Benchmark: HeritageComplianceBench
  • Violation Recall target: 0.95
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Zed · Required
  • Lindy · Optional
  • Voiceflow · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Violation Flagging · Weight 1
  • Violation Recall · Weight 1

Metrics

  • Violation Recall · Target 0.95

Benchmarks

  • HeritageComplianceBench
  • general

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: JSON with listing_grade, proposed_facade_material, glazing_type, structural_expansion_pct

    Output: JSON with approved (boolean), violations, required_approvals

    Execution harness: Python

Evaluation tools

  • Claude Agents SDK · Agent Framework

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