Challenge

Model Hardware Standard Physical Device Safety Controller with Claude Agents SDK

Safely enforce hardware constraints for AI agents interacting with physical devices. Build a safe device controller using Claude Agents SDK and the Model Hardware Standard specification to validate actuator motion ranges and emergency shutdown triggers before command execution.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Develop an MHS safety execution harness using Claude Agents SDK that intercept physical hardware command calls and verifies safety boundary rules before execution.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates MHS command validation accuracy and interceptor safety enforcement.

Datasets

Shared data for this challenge

Review public datasets and any private uploads tied to your build.

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

Safety Boundary Enforcement

Ensure out-of-bounds commands return approved == False.

Binary check

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

Dimension 2

Safety Compliance Score

Ratio of correctly validated vs misvalidated commands. • target: 1 • 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 the Model Hardware Standard (MHS) safety verification pattern.

  • Utilize Claude Agents SDK to structure safe multi-step hardware interaction loops.

  • Interceptors and validation wrappers for physical actuator inputs.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

MHS telemetry and command log suite containing valid and physical safety violating robotic arm instructions.

How this agent runs

Evaluates MHS command validation accuracy and interceptor safety enforcement.

Challenge input

JSON containing command, velocity, hardware_safety_limits

Claude Agents SDK

Anthropic agent SDK for Claude.

Evaluated output

JSON approved boolean, reason, executed_command

Checks for
  • Ensure out-of-bounds commands return approved == False.
  • Ratio of correctly validated vs misvalidated commands. • target: 1 • range: 0-1
Proof of success
  • Benchmark: Model Hardware Standard Compliance Suite
  • Safety Compliance Score target: 1
  • 1 public reference case
Runtime evidence
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)
View technical recipe

Configured tools

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

Evaluation contract

  • Safety Boundary Enforcement · Weight 1
  • Safety Compliance Score · Weight 1

Recipe state

This is a preview. The configuration can change before the evaluation recipe is locked.

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