{"claim":{"id":"58ec77b3-63b6-46b9-b383-eb8bcc2b0414","submission_id":"4b7b1c68-1930-49f4-85b7-a56063b76e2a","submission_revision_id":"b5eb63a4-b5dd-4d7b-9a10-d2182538b6a7","builder":"builder-01","status":"active","claimed_at":"2026-10-15T15:35:32.506667Z","delivered_at":null,"ended_at":null,"delivery_note":null,"end_reason":null},"task":{"submission_id":"4b7b1c68-1930-49f4-85b7-a56063b76e2a","submission_revision_id":"b5eb63a4-b5dd-4d7b-9a10-d2182538b6a7","revision_version":1,"submission_status":"under_review","submitted_at":"2026-10-01T09:27:12.637064Z","submitter_name":"Qiming Bao","submitter_email":"bqmbill714@gmail.com","task":{"status":"submitted","version":1,"extra_fields":{"difficulty_self_test":{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","harness":"Claude Code","estimated_score":"5–10%"}},"submitted_at":"2026-10-01T09:27:12.637064+00:00","industry_domain":"AI/ML Evaluation, Agent Reliability Testing, and Autonomous Decision Systems","task_short_name":"Latent-State Control Lab","operating_system":"Linux","task_description":"The participant is given a custom command-line control environment containing calibration levels and five previously unseen evaluation levels. The environment is partially observable and includes hidden state, hidden target information, history-dependent transition dynamics, latent modes, and information-gathering actions that may themselves affect future environment behavior.\nThe participant must interact with the environment, infer its mechanics from observations, maintain and revise hypotheses over partially observed state, and complete the evaluation levels within strict action budgets. The same visible state and action can lead to different outcomes depending on latent variables, previous actions, second-order history, and prior sensing operations, so fixed state-to-action mappings are insufficient.\nSome sensing and probing operations are intervention-like rather than passive: acquiring information can alter latent phase or mode. Participants must therefore reason not only about what information they need, but also about how the act of obtaining that information changes the environment.\nThe documented CLI is the only permitted interaction interface. Reverse-engineering the executable, reading or modifying hidden state directly, or fabricating audit records is prohibited.\nThe required deliverables are an environment-generated audit log, a scorecard, and strategy notes describing observed evidence, hypotheses, falsified hypotheses, unresolved mechanics, and the participant's adaptation process.\nPerformance is evaluated using the authoritative environment score, which incorporates level completion, action efficiency, resets, exhausted action budgets, failed commitments, and use of high-cost diagnostic operations.","software_licensing":"In-house/Proprietary","evaluation_criteria":null,"verification_method":"Multiple valid interaction trajectories are expected. The task is intentionally designed so that participants may discover different locally sufficient models of the hidden environment and may complete some levels without fully identifying the true latent transition mechanism.\nEvaluation must therefore not require an exact action-sequence match to the reference path. The authoritative environment-generated audit should be used to verify which levels were completed, action counts, resets, exhausted budgets, diagnostic actions, and final score.\nStrategy notes may differ substantially between successful or partially successful submissions. A participant may form an incorrect but locally useful model that explains observed transitions sufficiently to complete a level. Claims in the notes should be assessed against the participant's recorded observations rather than against exact reference wording.\nLevel outcomes and scores are deterministic for a given recorded interaction trajectory.","software_and_version":"CONTROL-LAB v16 (custom statically linked Linux x86-64 command-line evaluation environment)","specific_requirements":null,"expected_completion_time":null},"files":[{"file_id":"3590edaf-46b5-4028-bd26-820661d2ed53","filename":"ALE_control_lab_v16_task.zip","category":"input_materials","content_type":"application/x-zip-compressed","size_bytes":324900},{"file_id":"fe4bd6a4-8e3d-4dd0-b5fd-24355ddf2704","filename":"ALE_control_lab_v16_reviewer_ONLY.zip","category":"reference_output","content_type":"application/x-zip-compressed","size_bytes":3049},{"file_id":"7ef456e5-18a4-4273-b59b-15d844ff0890","filename":"submission.zip","category":"difficulty_self_test_evidence","content_type":"application/x-zip-compressed","size_bytes":5161}],"deep_review":{"overall_verdict":"Strong Accept","review_text":"**Overall Verdict:** Strong Accept — The submission is complete, internally consistent, objectively scorable, and fully reachable on the declared Linux platform.\n\n**Completeness Check:**\n- Instruction: Complete — The solver workflow, interaction restrictions, level order, action-budget implications, and three required deliverables are clearly specified.\n- Inputs: Complete — The input archive supplies readable documentation, templates, and a valid statically linked Linux x86-64 executable with no stated network or package dependency.\n- Toolchain: Complete — The supplied executable provides the documented CLI on a suitable Linux x86-64 machine; the proprietary license does not create an access barrier because the required software is included.\n- Reference output: Complete — Reviewer-only materials contain an environment-generated 100/100 audit, efficient reference paths, authoritative hidden mechanics, and manual evaluation guidance. The paths reproduce all five hidden evaluation goals under the documented mechanics.\n- Rubric: Complete — The authoritative environment score, completion records, action counts, resets, failed commitments, exhausted budgets, and diagnostic penalties objectively distinguish full, partial, and failed performance without requiring an exact reference trajectory.\n\n**File and Task Reachability:**\nThe attachment set is `reachable`, and the end-to-end task is `reachable`. All three manifest attachments were inspected: `ALE_control_lab_v16_task.zip`, `ALE_control_lab_v16_reviewer_ONLY.zip`, and `submission.zip`. Each is a valid, unencrypted ZIP matching its declared byte count, with readable entries, clean paths, no unsafe links or device entries, and modest expansion. The input contains documentation, CSV/Markdown templates, and the expected ELF executable; the reviewer package contains Markdown, valid JSON, and valid CSV evidence; and the self-test contains a valid audit, matching scorecard, and detailed strategy notes. The self-test's successful E1–E4 trajectories also reproduce the protected goals under the reviewer mechanics, while E5 remains incomplete as reported. No submitted text or structured evidence was left unreviewed. The executable's instruction body was not executed, disassembled, or reverse-engineered, as required by safe-review and task-integrity rules; its format and platform metadata, supplied documentation, reference audit, and substantive self-test provide sufficient reachability evidence. No material tooling limitation affected the assessment. A solver can unpack the task on Linux x86-64, interact through the documented CLI, complete calibration and evaluation levels, export the audit, and prepare the scorecard and notes; reviewers can evaluate those outputs through the authoritative score and protected reviewer evidence. License 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 submission provides a well-separated solver package, protected reference materials, and credible difficulty evidence. No changes are required.","reviewed_at":"2026-10-01T09:32:49.074626Z"},"claim":{"id":"58ec77b3-63b6-46b9-b383-eb8bcc2b0414","submission_id":"4b7b1c68-1930-49f4-85b7-a56063b76e2a","submission_revision_id":"b5eb63a4-b5dd-4d7b-9a10-d2182538b6a7","builder":"builder-01","status":"active","claimed_at":"2026-10-15T15:35:32.506667Z","delivered_at":null,"ended_at":null,"delivery_note":null,"end_reason":null}},"revision_is_current":true}