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Some sensing operations are intervention-like rather than passive observations: requesting information can change hidden environment state and therefore affect subsequent transitions.\nThe final mission also includes a hidden terminal condition. Matching the visible panel to the visible goal is not sufficient by itself; the participant must infer or control the hidden state required for a successful commit.\nOnly the documented command-line interface may be used. Reverse-engineering the executable, directly inspecting or modifying hidden state, or fabricating audit records is prohibited.\nThe required deliverables are an environment-generated audit log, a scorecard, and strategy notes documenting observations, hypotheses, falsified hypotheses, interventions, uncertainty, and unresolved mechanics.\nPerformance is determined by successful completion of the final integrated mission together with action efficiency, resets, failed commits, and use of expensive diagnostic operations.","software_licensing":"In-house/Proprietary","evaluation_criteria":null,"verification_method":"Multiple valid interaction trajectories are expected. Participants may discover different locally sufficient models of the environment and may solve intermediate levels without fully identifying the true hidden transition mechanism.\nEvaluation must not require an exact match to the reference action sequence. The authoritative environment-generated audit should instead be used to verify final mission completion, action count, resets, failed commits, diagnostic operations, and the final score.\nStrategy notes may differ substantially between submissions. A participant may complete the task using an approximate or partially correct world model, so explanatory claims should be evaluated against the participant's recorded observations rather than against exact reference wording.\nThe environment is deterministic. Any apparent randomness reflects incomplete knowledge of hidden state rather than stochastic transition dynamics.","software_and_version":"CONTROL-LAB v17 (custom statically linked Linux x86-64 command-line evaluation environment)","specific_requirements":null,"expected_completion_time":null},"files":[{"file_id":"fce04118-1edd-4e45-b9e4-aa8a86f75e5d","filename":"ALE_control_lab_v17_task.zip","category":"input_materials","content_type":"application/x-zip-compressed","size_bytes":325558},{"file_id":"478c1a15-fc8e-4b91-adcc-bb7d4266ab19","filename":"ALE_control_lab_v17_reviewer_ONLY.zip","category":"reference_output","content_type":"application/x-zip-compressed","size_bytes":4835},{"file_id":"4cd82fe9-0c9e-4ae1-a2c7-6dedaefedc1f","filename":"submission.zip","category":"difficulty_self_test_evidence","content_type":"application/x-zip-compressed","size_bytes":7284}],"deep_review":{"overall_verdict":"Accept","review_text":"**Overall Verdict:** Accept — the submission is complete, coherent, and reachable, with an undocumented 600-event retention limit as the only notable but non-blocking concern.\n\n**Completeness Check:**\n- Instruction: Complete — the prompt and interface documentation define the ordered levels, permitted commands, integrity constraints, scoring objective, and required deliverables.\n- Inputs: Complete — the solver archive includes the documented Linux executable, supporting documentation, and output templates.\n- Toolchain: Complete — the supplied executable is a statically linked Linux x86-64 ELF requiring no external packages, network access, or credentials.\n- Reference output: Complete — reviewer-only materials include exact mechanics, a verified 100/100 trajectory, an exported reference audit, and a matching scorecard.\n- Rubric: Complete — the manual guide defines full completion, authoritative metrics, integrity expectations, and permissible solution diversity; per-level audit data supports partial-completion assessment.\n\n**File and Task Reachability:**\nThe attachment set is `reachable`, and the end-to-end task is `reachable`. All three manifested files were inspected: `ALE_control_lab_v17_task.zip`, `ALE_control_lab_v17_reviewer_ONLY.zip`, and `submission.zip`. The archives match their declared ZIP format and sizes, are readable and unencrypted, have modest expansion ratios, and contain no unsafe paths, links, or device entries. All documentation, templates, CSV files, and JSON files were inspected or structurally validated; text is valid UTF-8 and both audits parse correctly. The executable was safely identified as a stripped, statically linked Linux x86-64 binary but was not executed, disassembled, or otherwise reverse-engineered. No relevant submitted content remained unreviewed within that safety boundary.\n\nThe completion path is clear: unpack the solver materials, use the documented CLI to complete C1 through D4 and M1, export the environment audit, prepare the matching scorecard and strategy notes, and grade the aggregate completion and efficiency metrics using the reviewer guide. The reference audit and scorecard consistently demonstrate a 100/100 path. The self-test audit, scorecard, and notes consistently report completion at 1/100. Its event list stops at 600 sequential records before the final successful sequence, but the audit’s aggregate level record retains M1 completion, attempts, resets, failed commits, deep scans, successful-attempt action count, and authoritative score.\n\nLicense keys, accounts, tokens, and other credentials are not required from the contributor. Confidential, proprietary, or internal material may be evaluated as submitted evidence without requiring additional disclosure.\n\n**Special Screening:**\nNone\n\n**Recommended Changes:**\nThe solver package, reviewer separation, reference evidence, and self-test are sufficient as submitted. No changes are required. As an optional hardening improvement, document the 600-event retention limit and add an explicit truncation indicator so reviewers do not mistake the bounded event list for a complete trajectory.","reviewed_at":"2026-10-01T12:08:56.030230Z"},"claim":{"id":"93fe11ec-167f-4b6c-86be-256e873e357b","submission_id":"ab83504d-928f-4deb-ab3e-f5abed5af0fb","submission_revision_id":"9834efb2-f7e3-48a5-9eaa-d40158185090","builder":"builder-01","status":"active","claimed_at":"2026-10-15T15:35:42.573874Z","delivered_at":null,"ended_at":null,"delivery_note":null,"end_reason":null}},"revision_is_current":true}