title	OversightArena
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OversightArena

An OpenEnv-compliant RL environment for the Meta PyTorch OpenEnv Hackathon.

The environment trains an LLM to act as an oversight agent that reviews outputs from a worker AI and flags errors — building calibrated, accurate AI oversight behaviour.

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Concept

A worker AI answers questions about structured JSON records (employee files, product catalogues). Some answers contain deliberate errors: wrong values, wrong inferences, or omissions. The oversight agent must review each answer and decide to approve or flag it, staying within a limited flag budget.

Outcome	Reward
Correct flag (true positive)	+2.0
Correct approval (true negative)	+1.0
Wrong flag (false positive)	−1.0
Missed error (false negative)	−2.0
Flag budget exceeded	−0.5

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Project Structure

oversight_arena/
├── server/
│   ├── app.py             # FastAPI OpenEnv server
│   ├── environment.py     # Episode/step logic
│   ├── grader.py          # Reward computation
│   ├── data_generator.py  # Synthetic JSON + worker Q&A with errors
│   ├── requirements.txt
│   └── Dockerfile
├── models.py              # Pydantic v2 data models
├── openenv.yaml           # OpenEnv specification
├── baseline.py            # Baseline agents (random / always_flag / heuristic)
├── inference.py           # Claude LLM agent via Anthropic API
├── test.py                # Unit + integration tests
└── README.md

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Quick Start

1. Start the server

cd server
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

Or with Docker:

docker build -f server/Dockerfile -t oversight-arena .
docker run -p 8000:8000 oversight-arena

2. Run a baseline agent

pip install requests
python baseline.py --strategy heuristic --episodes 10

3. Run the LLM inference agent

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_key_here
pip install anthropic requests
python inference.py --model claude-sonnet-4-6 --episodes 5

4. Run tests

python test.py                 # unit tests (no server needed)
python test.py --integration   # unit + integration (server must be running)

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OpenEnv API

Endpoint	Method	Description
/health	GET	Server health check
/reset	POST	Start new episode, get first observation
/step	POST	Submit action, get (obs, reward, done, info)
/observation_space	GET	Observation schema
/action_space	GET	Action schema

Reset

POST /reset
{"seed": 42}

Step

POST /step
{
  "episode_id": "uuid",
  "action": {
    "action_type": "flag",
    "question_id": 2,
    "error_type": "wrong_value",
    "reasoning": "Salary listed as $500 but JSON shows $85,000.",
    "confidence": 0.95
  }
}

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Episode Structure

Each episode contains 5 worker answers about one JSON record. 1–2 answers contain a seeded error. The agent has a budget of 3 flags per episode and reviews all 5 answers sequentially.

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Error Types

• wrong_value — Numeric or categorical value is incorrect (e.g. wrong salary)
• wrong_inference — Logical conclusion drawn incorrectly from correct data
• omission — Answer omits clearly present information ("No data available")

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Models

• WorkerAnswer — Internal model with hidden fields (has_error, error_type, correct_answer)
• OversightObservation — What the agent sees (no hidden fields leaked)
• OversightAction — Agent decision with reasoning and confidence
• EpisodeState — Mutable plain dict tracking episode progress