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Challenge

OpenAI Agents SDK Research Misconduct Audit System

Scientific misconduct investigations require cross-referencing multi-year email archives with peer-reviewed figure data. Build an OpenAI Agents SDK system with multi-turn tool calling to cross-examine digital correspondence against image manipulation reports. Achieve high precision in flagging discrepancies without false positives.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Build an autonomous investigative agent system using OpenAI Agents SDK to cross-reference scientific correspondence with image manipulation logs.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates temporal discrepancy identification, evidence mapping accuracy, and agent tool execution efficiency.

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

discrepancy_detected

Verifies that true timeline contradictions are flagged.

Binary check

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

Dimension 2

forensic_precision

Precision of identified timeline contradictions. • target: 0.94 • 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 OpenAI Agents SDK multi-turn agent with custom tool bindings

  • Cross-examine timeline events between email metadata and image duplication logs

  • Build dynamic graph visualization tools for institutional communication logs

  • Output structured forensic investigation timelines with evidence confidence scores

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Synthetic investigation archives containing simulated email logs, committee meeting minutes, and image analysis reports.

Challenge setup

Evaluates temporal discrepancy identification, evidence mapping accuracy, and agent tool execution efficiency.

Challenge input

JSON containing emails array and figure_reports array

OpenAI Agents SDK

Required framework for building multi-turn autonomous tool agents.

GPT-4o

Provides tool execution and reasoning capabilities for digital forensics.

Evaluated output

JSON with identified_discrepancies array and overall_verdict

Evaluation checks
  • Verifies that true timeline contradictions are flagged.
  • Precision of identified timeline contradictions. • target: 0.94 • range: 0-1
Configured evaluation evidence
  • Benchmark: ResearchIntegrity-Bench
  • Forensic Precision target: 0.94
  • 1 public reference case
Configured runtime
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox (unavailable on Versalist)

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

Action Space
  • OpenAI · Required
  • Exa · Optional
  • Oracle OCI Generative AI · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • discrepancy_detected · Weight 1
  • forensic_precision · Weight 1

Metrics

  • forensic_precision · Target 0.94

Benchmarks

  • ResearchIntegrity-Bench
  • biotech

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: JSON containing emails array and figure_reports array

    Output: JSON with identified_discrepancies array and overall_verdict

    Execution harness: Python

Evaluation tools

  • OpenAI Agents SDK · Agent core framework
  • GPT-4o · LLM Provider

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