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Network Failure Root-Cause Agent with OpenAI Agents SDK and E2B Sandbox

Unannounced OT network switch failures degrade operator situational awareness and trigger cascading control logic trips. Construct an autonomous diagnostic agent using the OpenAI Agents SDK inside an E2B sandbox to parse network log files and pinpoint switch failures. Achieve less than 5 seconds resolution time for cascading incident root causes.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Develop an OpenAI Agents SDK diagnostic workflow executed inside E2B sandboxes to isolate network switch outages impacting OT safety loops.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates root-cause accuracy and execution speed inside an isolated E2B sandbox.

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

root_cause_accuracy

Verifies that the identified failed_device_ip matches the true broken switch.

Binary check

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

Dimension 2

diagnosis_latency_sec

Time spent by the agent performing root-cause isolation in E2B. • target: 5 • range: 0-30

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

  • Deploy custom tool handlers in OpenAI Agents SDK to parse Syslog and PCAP files

  • Execute safe code isolation and log diagnostics within an E2B sandbox container

  • Map communication loss events to safety instrumented system (SIS) trip conditions

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Network packet captures (PCAP) and industrial syslog logs representing network switch failure cascading to PLC trips.

How this agent runs

Evaluates root-cause accuracy and execution speed inside an isolated E2B sandbox.

Challenge input

ZIP archive containing network PCAP logs and PLC alarm records

OpenAI Agents SDK

Agent orchestration framework

E2B

Isolated sandboxed code execution

Evaluated output

JSON report specifying failed_device_ip, failure_timestamp, and impacted_loops

Checks for
  • Verifies that the identified failed_device_ip matches the true broken switch.
  • Time spent by the agent performing root-cause isolation in E2B. • target: 5 • range: 0-30
Proof of success
  • Benchmark: OT Network Fault Diagnosis
  • Diagnosis Latency Sec target: 5
  • 1 public reference case
Runtime evidence
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)
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Configured tools

Environment
  • E2B · Required
Action Space
  • E2B · Required
  • OpenAI · Optional
  • Agent Protocol · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • root_cause_accuracy · Weight 1
  • diagnosis_latency_sec · Weight 1

Recipe state

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