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Challenge

Real-time Weather Prediction Agents

This challenge requires you to build a multi-agent system using CrewAI for real-time weather forecasting. Your system will simulate processing continuous streams of satellite telemetry and sensor data via Apache Kafka. A team of specialized agents, powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro for data analysis and reasoning, will collaborate to perform data ingestion, pattern recognition, predictive modeling, and alert generation. The focus is on orchestrating complex, asynchronous workflows where agents manage data integrity, learn from historical patterns, and provide actionable weather insights with low latency.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Orchestrate a multi-agent system with CrewAI and Gemini 2.5 Pro for real-time weather forecasting from simulated satellite data streams.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluation will focus on the accuracy and timeliness of weather forecasts generated by the agent team, the robustness of the Kafka integration, and the collaborative efficiency of the CrewAI agents.

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
4 scoring checks
Binary
4 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

KafkaDataIngestion

Verify that the agent system successfully consumes data from the specified Kafka topic.

Binary check

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

Dimension 2

ForecastCompleteness

Ensure a 24-hour forecast is generated without missing data points.

Binary check

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

Dimension 3

ForecastAccuracy (RMSE)

Root Mean Square Error for temperature predictions compared to ground truth, lower is better. • target: 1.5 • range: 0-5

Binary check

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

Dimension 4

ProcessingLatency

Average time taken from data ingestion to forecast output, lower is better. • target: 200 • range: 0-500

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

  • Master CrewAI for defining roles, goals, tasks, and tools for collaborative AI agents.

  • Implement real-time data ingestion pipelines using Apache Kafka for high-throughput sensor data.

  • Design a 'Data Analyst' agent leveraging Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities for complex pattern recognition in meteorological data.

  • Develop a 'Predictive Modeler' agent responsible for running forecasting models and updating predictions based on new data.

  • Integrate Weights & Biases (W&B) for tracking model experiments, managing different forecasting models, and monitoring their performance.

  • Deploy a simulated inference endpoint using Cerebras Inference for serving weather prediction models with low latency.

  • Orchestrate an end-to-end workflow where agents automatically detect anomalies, generate forecasts, and publish alerts.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Sample data for 1 tasks

Challenge setup

Evaluation will focus on the accuracy and timeliness of weather forecasts generated by the agent team, the robustness of the Kafka integration, and the collaborative efficiency of the CrewAI agents.

Challenge input

{'kafka_topic': 'string', 'duration_seconds': 'integer', 'ground_truth_forecast': 'list_of_dicts'}

Agent execution

No agent tool is listed for this challenge.

Evaluated output

{'generated_forecast': 'list_of_dicts', 'processing_latency_ms': 'float', 'alerts_issued': 'list_of_strings'}

Evaluation checks
  • Verify that the agent system successfully consumes data from the specified Kafka topic.
  • Ensure a 24-hour forecast is generated without missing data points.
  • Root Mean Square Error for temperature predictions compared to ground truth, lower is better. • target: 1.5...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • ForecastAccuracy (RMSE) target: 1.5
  • 1 public reference case
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

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Evaluation contract

  • KafkaDataIngestion · Weight 1
  • ForecastCompleteness · Weight 1
  • ForecastAccuracy (RMSE) · Weight 1
  • ProcessingLatency · Weight 1

Metrics

  • ForecastAccuracy (RMSE) · Target 1.5
  • ProcessingLatency · Target 200

Reference cases

  • 1 public reference case

Workflow tasks

  1. Task 1

    Input: {'kafka_topic': 'string', 'duration_seconds': 'integer', 'ground_truth_forecast': 'list_of_dicts'}

    Output: {'generated_forecast': 'list_of_dicts', 'processing_latency_ms': 'float', 'alerts_issued': 'list_of_strings'}

    Execution harness: Python

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

Frequently Asked Questions about Real-time Weather Prediction Agents