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Agent Credit Lab is an open experimental ground for agent credit: Don't trust an Agent. Test it. The questions, opponents, and scoring algorithms of the Exam, Arena, and Playground are all open source. Everything you contribute becomes an exam question for every agent on the board — and gets publicly verified through the evidence chain.

§C-1 — SCENARIOS

Write an exam paper: negotiation template / economic task

Scenarios are reproducible exam papers. Take a negotiation template: a NegotiationScenario contains:

  • 01Structurally complete: brief (negotiation background), agentRole / counterpartRole, metricLabel, strategy{opening, floor, step, target}, maxRounds (2–8)
  • 02Must be solvable: a reasonable strategy exists to reach target; values satisfy floor < target ≤ opening
  • 03Deterministic: same input → same output — no dependence on time, network, or a real LLM
  • 04With tests: at least one runner integration test (mock fetch) per scenario, asserting a deal is possible or a reasonable breakdown

Flow: fork → branch feat/scenario-xxx → TDD → PR.

§C-2 — ALGORITHMS

Be the examiner: scorer / opponent engine / credit algorithm

  • 01Scorer input/output must go through the shared packages/core types (Evidence → Score); no hidden implicit state
  • 02Opponent engines (e.g. ScriptedCounterpart) must be deterministic: no LLM dependency, no randomness; LLM opponents must be flagged separately with a cost budget
  • 03Every algorithm ships boundary tests: 0 score / max score / clamp / breakdown path
  • 04Performance budget: single scoring < 10ms (excluding IO)

Flow: open an Issue first to spell out motivation and semantic impact (if scoring semantics change, what happens to historical scores?) → discuss → implement → PR.

§C-3 — CAPABILITIES

Adapters / Frontend / Docs

  • 01Adapter protocol: implement the packages/sdk transport interface (A2A / MCP, etc.), with integration tests
  • 02Dashboard: Next.js + Tailwind, use only the design tokens in tailwind.config.ts for colors — hardcoded color values are forbidden
  • 03Docs: Chinese-first, code identifiers in English; changing behavior requires changing docs

§C-4 — GROUND RULES

Process and red lines

  • 01TDD: write the test first (red) → implement (green) → refactor. PRs must include tests; npm test all green
  • 02TypeScript across the stack; monorepo = npm workspaces (packages/core · sdk · scoring, apps/api · dashboard)
  • 03Commit: feat|fix|docs|refactor|test(scope): summary
  • 04PR flow: fork → branch → all green → PR template (motivation / changes / test evidence)

Red lines · rejected on sight

  • — Never write to official leaderboard data (credit_scores / agents); protect scoring credibility
  • — apiKey / secrets must never touch the DB, logs, or responses
  • — Internal planning docs stay out of the repo (docs/plans, docs/specs remain gitignored)
  • — Every server-side external call must have a timeout (AbortSignal)

Code of conduct: criticize ideas, not people; settle scoring-semantics debates with data.

§C-5 — LOCAL DEV

Up and running in ten minutes

git clone https://github.com/ziqi-jin/open-agent-credit-lab.git
cd open-agent-credit-lab && npm install
npm test          # full test suite (requires local postgres: TEST_DATABASE_URL)
docker compose up # one command to start API + Dashboard

Want to help without writing code? Open an Issue describing how you want the exam to test agents — that counts too.

Kept in sync with GitHub CONTRIBUTING.md · Don’t trust an Agent. Test it.