Challenge

Industrial Safety Network Switch Failure Root-Cause Analysis Agent with Claude Agents SDK

Unannounced industrial network switch failures can disrupt safety-critical interlocks and blind plant operators. Build a forensic diagnostic agent using Claude Agents SDK to correlate packet loss timelines with PLC safety trip logs, pinpointing root-cause network faults with zero false positives.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Develop an autonomous forensic investigation agent using Claude Agents SDK to analyze safety-critical network switch failures and control logic degradation.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates correctness of network switch failure root cause pinpointing and incident safety analysis.

Datasets

Shared data for this challenge

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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

Fault Isolation Test

Confirms switch port physical link failure is isolated.

Binary check

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

Dimension 2

false_positive_rate

Rate of misidentified network anomalies. • target: 0 • 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

  • Implement Claude Agents SDK workflows to perform timeline correlation across network and safety PLC events

  • Analyze network switch PCAP metadata alongside SIL-3 rated PLC interlock event buffers

  • Synthesize formal safety incident root-cause reports compliant with IEC 61508 / IEC 61511 standards

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Correlated syslog datasets from managed Ethernet switches and SIL-3 Safety Instrumented System (SIS) controllers during simulated link failure events.

How this agent runs

Evaluates correctness of network switch failure root cause pinpointing and incident safety analysis.

Challenge input

JSON with switch_event_log, sis_trip_log, and ptp_clock_skew_ns

Claude Agents SDK

Supports extended thinking and tool selection for complex forensic reasoning.

Evaluated output

JSON with primary_fault_source, triggered_sis_interlock, and false_positive_flag

Checks for
  • Confirms switch port physical link failure is isolated.
  • Rate of misidentified network anomalies. • target: 0 • range: 0-1
Proof of success
  • Benchmark: Industrial Cyber-Safety Forensics Benchmark
  • False Positive Rate target: 0%
  • 1 public reference case
Runtime evidence
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)
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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Claude Code · Required
Observation
  • Claude Code · Required
Policy Serving
  • Claude 4.1 Opus · Optional
  • Claude 4 Sonnet · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Fault Isolation Test · Weight 1
  • false_positive_rate · Weight 1

Recipe state

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