Challenge

Software-Defined Control Switch Diagnostic Agent with Claude Agents SDK and Metaflow

Critical industrial network switch failures corrupt control logic communication and impair operator situational awareness. Build an automated network diagnostic pipeline using Claude Agents SDK and Metaflow workflows to trace packet loss anomalies to exact control loop failures within 10 seconds.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

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

Develop an automated pipeline for diagnosing digital communications failures in software-defined controls using Claude Agents SDK and Metaflow.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Evaluates accuracy of identifying the root switch port failure from corrupted SDC telemetry.

Datasets

Shared data for this challenge

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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

port_match

Checks if failed port is correctly identified.

Binary check

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

Dimension 2

loop_identification_recall

Recall metric of impacted control loops identified • target: 0.95 • 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

  • Build a Metaflow graph to ingest high-frequency switch port telemetry

  • Utilize Claude Agents SDK with extended thinking to infer broken control loop dependencies

  • Correlate lost heartbeats with operator HMI alarm flooding

  • Generate automated fallback routing plans for Software-Defined Controls (SDC)

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Network packet loss and port CRC error telemetry streams from redundant ring control networks.

How this agent runs

Evaluates accuracy of identifying the root switch port failure from corrupted SDC telemetry.

Challenge input

JSON object with network_topology and port_stats list

Claude Agents SDK

Anthropic agent framework for advanced extended thinking and reasoning

Metaflow

Framework for defining, executing, and monitoring automated data flows

Evaluated output

JSON object with failed_port (string), affected_control_loops (array), recovery_action (string)

Checks for
  • Checks if failed port is correctly identified.
  • Recall metric of impacted control loops identified • target: 0.95 • range: 0-1
Proof of success
  • Benchmark: SDC-NetDiag-2025
  • Loop Identification Recall target: 0.95
  • 1 public reference case
Runtime evidence
  • Python execution harness
  • Python sandbox
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Configured tools

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

Evaluation contract

  • port_match · Weight 1
  • loop_identification_recall · Weight 1

Recipe state

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