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Claude Agents SDK Network Switch Diagnostics Engine with Neurolink

Unannounced industrial switch failures erode operator situational awareness and compromise safety logic. Construct an autonomous network diagnostics agent using Claude Agents SDK and Neurolink to analyze switch packet drops and PLC logic alarms. The solution must identify safety-critical switch failures and isolate fault roots with 95% accuracy.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Deploy Claude Agents SDK extended thinking with Neurolink stream analysis to trace industrial network switch failures affecting safety controls.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates the agent's root-cause accuracy and fault detection speed across simulated OT switch topology failures.

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

critical_fault_identification

Ensures all critical safety loop impacts are correctly identified

Binary check

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

Dimension 2

root_cause_accuracy

Percentage of correct root cause diagnoses • 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 extended thinking for complex network topology reasoning

  • Integrate Neurolink for real-time packet loss and industrial Ethernet log parsing

  • Differentiate between physical switch failures and malicious network traffic disruptions

  • Generate actionable operator recommendations to maintain situational awareness

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Network event log repository capturing industrial switch degradation, port dropping, and correlated PLC safety trip flags.

Challenge setup

Evaluates the agent's root-cause accuracy and fault detection speed across simulated OT switch topology failures.

Challenge input

JSON containing syslogs, port status tables, and PLC alarm state transitions

Claude Agents SDK

Assigned framework for reasoning over complex system topologies.

Neurolink

Assigned tool for processing high-velocity stream events.

Evaluated output

JSON with root_cause_device (string), fault_type (string), impacted_safety_loops (list), severity (string)

Evaluation checks
  • Ensures all critical safety loop impacts are correctly identified
  • Percentage of correct root cause diagnoses • target: 0.95 • range: 0-1
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Benchmark: OT Network Resilience Benchmark
  • Root Cause Accuracy target: 0.95
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)

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
  • Neurolink · Required
  • Claude Code · Optional
Observation
  • Claude Code · Optional
Policy Serving
  • Claude 4.1 Opus · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • critical_fault_identification · Weight 1
  • root_cause_accuracy · Weight 1

Metrics

  • root_cause_accuracy · Target 0.95

Benchmarks

  • OT Network Resilience Benchmark
  • security

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: JSON containing syslogs, port status tables, and PLC alarm state transitions

    Output: JSON with root_cause_device (string), fault_type (string), impacted_safety_loops (list), severity (string)

    Execution harness: Python

Evaluation tools

  • Claude Agents SDK · Agent Framework
  • Neurolink · Agent Systems / Log Parser

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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