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Challenge

MCP-Enabled Federal Data Agent

Inspired by the 'Genesis Mission' to boost AI innovation using federal datasets, this challenge tasks you with building a sophisticated agentic system. You will design and implement a graph-based multi-agent system using LangGraph to autonomously access, analyze, and synthesize scientific information from simulated federal datasets. The system will leverage GPT-5 for advanced reasoning and LlamaIndex for robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities, ensuring accurate and contextual information retrieval. A core component will be the integration of MCP-enabled tools for seamless and standardized interaction with various simulated enterprise APIs representing federal data sources, demonstrating how agents can securely and efficiently work with structured and unstructured governmental data for novel scientific insights.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Build a graph-based multi-agent system using LangGraph, GPT-5, and LlamaIndex for autonomous scientific research on federal datasets, integrating with MCP-enabled tools.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

The evaluation will assess the agent system's ability to accurately extract information, generate coherent scientific hypotheses, and demonstrate robust MCP tool integration.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Design and implement graph-based agent workflows using LangGraph for complex scientific inquiries.

  • Develop and utilize MCP-enabled tool integration for standardized access to external enterprise data sources.

  • Integrate LlamaIndex with vector databases to perform advanced RAG over diverse federal datasets.

  • Leverage GPT-5's extended thinking capabilities to generate novel scientific hypotheses and insights.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Sample data for 3 tasks

Challenge setup

The evaluation will assess the agent system's ability to accurately extract information, generate coherent scientific hypotheses, and demonstrate robust MCP tool integration.

Challenge input

{'dataset_id': 'unique_id', 'query': 'natural language question'}

Agent execution

No agent tool is listed for this challenge.

Evaluated output

{'extracted_data': {'key': 'value'}, 'summary': 'string', 'confidence': float}

Evaluation checks
  • Ensure the LangGraph workflow executes without unhandled errors.
  • Verify successful invocation of at least one MCP-enabled tool.
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Data Extraction F1 Score target: 0.85
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness

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

No tool records are attached.

Evaluation contract

  • Ensure the LangGraph workflow executes without unhandled errors.
  • Verify successful invocation of at least one MCP-enabled tool.

Metrics

  • Data Extraction F1-Score · Target 0.85
  • Hypothesis Plausibility · Target 0.7
  • MCP Integration Latency · Target 100

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: {'dataset_id': 'unique_id', 'query': 'natural language question'}

    Output: {'extracted_data': {'key': 'value'}, 'summary': 'string', 'confidence': float}

    Execution harness: Python

  2. Task 2

    Input: {'facts': ['fact1', 'fact2', ...], 'domain': 'string'}

    Output: {'hypothesis': 'string', 'justification': 'string', 'novelty_score': float}

    Execution harness: Python

  3. Task 3

    Input: {'tool_name': 'string', 'parameters': {'param1': 'value1'}}

    Output: {'status': 'success'|'failure', 'response_data': 'json_or_error_message'}

    Execution harness: Python

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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