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Duchenne Trial Risk Evaluator with Claude Agents SDK and Google Jules

Inspired by recent regulatory scrutiny surrounding Capricor Therapeutics' Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment, this challenge focuses on building an automated trial outcome and FDA rejection risk evaluation agent. Clinical trials for rare pediatric neurodegenerative diseases face severe endpoints evaluation challenges, small cohort sizes, and baseline functional heterogeneity. Participants will construct an agentic system that ingests clinical trial protocol documents, biomarker efficacy metrics, and historical FDA advisory committee summaries to predict regulatory failure points.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Build an agentic evaluation pipeline using the Claude Agents SDK and Google Jules to analyze clinical trial protocols and predict regulatory risk flags.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates the agent's ability to extract trial parameters and compute accurate regulatory risk scores.

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

schema_validation

Output adheres strictly to expected JSON schema

Binary check

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

Dimension 2

f1_risk_flags

F1 score of identified regulatory risk flags against gold standard • target: 0.85 • 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

  • Extract structured endpoint and cohort data from unstructured trial protocols using Claude Agents SDK

  • Deploy automated code analysis and risk modeling pipelines using Google Jules

  • Quantify FDA approval probability using historical regulatory advisory datasets

  • Implement audit logging and transparency checkpoints for clinical risk scoring

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Synthetic dataset of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy clinical trial protocols, primary/secondary endpoints, patient baseline metrics, and FDA regulatory decision histories.

Challenge setup

Evaluates the agent's ability to extract trial parameters and compute accurate regulatory risk scores.

Challenge input

JSON containing trial protocol text and efficacy biomarkers

Claude Agents SDK

Mandatory framework for agent orchestration

Google Jules

Assigned engineering workflow tool

Evaluated output

JSON with risk_score (float 0-1) and flagged_issues (list of strings)

Evaluation checks
  • Output adheres strictly to expected JSON schema
  • F1 score of identified regulatory risk flags against gold standard • target: 0.85 • range: 0-1
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Benchmark: ClinicalTrialQA
  • F1 Risk Flags target: 0.85
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Google Jules · Required
  • Google · Optional
  • LocalAI · Optional
Orchestration
  • Google Jules · Required

Evaluation contract

  • schema_validation · Weight 1
  • f1_risk_flags · Weight 1

Metrics

  • f1_risk_flags · Target 0.85

Benchmarks

  • ClinicalTrialQA
  • biotech

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: JSON containing trial protocol text and efficacy biomarkers

    Output: JSON with risk_score (float 0-1) and flagged_issues (list of strings)

    Execution harness: Python

Evaluation tools

  • Claude Agents SDK · Agent Framework
  • Google Jules · AI Tooling

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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