CSE Roadmap

Core tier · about 3 hours · 4 parts

Part 3 of 4 · 2 min read

Exercises

Easy

Easy 1: Run it (30 minutes)

Run python -m pytest -q and python run_all.py in code/mini-trajectory.

Done when: you explain each cell in the pass-rate table in one phrase.

Easy 2: Add an invariant (30 minutes)

Add "send_email only after refund".

Done when: a test shows a run that emails first is flagged.

Hint

INVARIANTS is a list of (before, after) pairs.

Easy 3: Milestone score (30 minutes)

Compute the milestone score for ["verify_identity", "refund"] by hand.

Done when: it matches milestone_score.

Hint

the longest common subsequence of the two lists, divided by 4.

Medium

Medium 1: Argument checks (3 hours)

Represent steps as (tool, arguments) and add a check that the refund amount equals the order total.

Done when: a wrong-amount run is caught by the trajectory scorer, and you list one case it still misses.

Hint

compare the argument in the refund call with the order record.

Medium 2: Several references (2 hours)

Let a task have two acceptable reference paths.

Done when: the exact-path scorer passes both and you compare false failures with a rules-based scorer.

Hint

any(exact_match(p, r) for r in refs).

Medium 3: Budget calibration (2 hours)

Set the step budget from the 95th percentile of known-good runs.

Done when: you report the budget and the false-failure rate on good runs.

Hint

take the percentile over step counts of runs that pass the outcome check.

Hard

Hard 1: Real traces (6 hours)

Score 50 real runs outcome-only and with rules. (I did not run this, so your numbers are the ground truth.)

Done when: you report how many outcome passes break an invariant and what the worst violation was.

Hint

parse the trajectory from your trace store (module 8).

Hard 2: LLM judge for path quality (6 hours)

Add a judge for "was each tool call justified?" and check it against human labels. (I did not run this.)

Done when: you report agreement and the failure cases.

Hint

keep the judge's rubric short and test it on known-bad steps.

Hard 3: Online invariant monitor (5 hours)

Run the same invariants on a stream of live traces. (I did not run this.)

Done when: you report the violation rate, alerts and false alarms.

Hint

batch by hour and alert on rate changes, not single events.