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name: gaia-validate description: Pre-submit validation — TypeScript clean, dataset accessible, all required env keys present argument-hint: "[--strict] [--fix]"

/gaia validate

Run pre-submission integrity checks before executing a benchmark or packaging results for the HAL leaderboard.

Usage

/gaia validate
/gaia validate --strict
/gaia validate --fix

Options

Flag	Default	Description
--strict	off	Fail on warnings (not just errors); with --audit, also fails on WARN audit findings
--fix	off	Attempt to auto-fix resolvable issues (e.g., install missing deps)
--skip-hf	off	Skip the HF dataset connectivity check (useful offline)
--skip-build	off	Skip the TypeScript build check
--audit	off	Run the pre-submission exploit audit (ADR-167) when a results file exists

Checks performed

1. Environment keys

• ANTHROPIC_API_KEY — required for model inference
• HF_TOKEN — required to download the GAIA dataset from Hugging Face
• GOOGLE_AI_API_KEY — optional; warn if absent (Gemini model support disabled)
• GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEY + GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_CX — optional; warn if absent (web_search falls back to DuckDuckGo)

2. TypeScript build

cd v3/@claude-flow/cli && npx tsc --noEmit

All GAIA benchmark source files must be TS-error-free.

3. Dataset accessibility

Perform a dry-run fetch of 1 question from the HF GAIA dataset to confirm the token and network path work.

4. Witness manifest

Verify the witness manifest is up to date and valid:

node plugins/ruflo-core/scripts/witness/verify.mjs

5. Benchmark source files present

Confirm all required benchmark source files exist:

• v3/@claude-flow/cli/src/commands/gaia-bench.ts
• v3/@claude-flow/cli/src/benchmarks/gaia-agent.ts
• v3/@claude-flow/cli/src/benchmarks/gaia-judge.ts
• v3/@claude-flow/cli/src/benchmarks/gaia-loader.ts
• v3/@claude-flow/cli/src/benchmarks/gaia-tools/index.ts

6. CLI binary resolvable

node v3/@claude-flow/cli/bin/cli.js --version

7. Submission integrity (exploit audit) — ADR-167

Only runs when --audit is passed and a results file is available (default ~/.cache/ruflo/gaia/results-latest.json). Motivated by UC Berkeley RDI's April-2026 finding that all 8 major agent benchmarks — GAIA included — were gamed to ~98-100% without solving any task (GAIA leaked ~98% of answers via public answer DBs + normalization collisions; o3/Claude-3.7 monkey-patch graders in 30%+ of runs, per METR).

Signing proves the bytes are untampered; this audit proves the score was earned. It is a deterministic, $0, offline red-team of the known reward-hacking vectors:

node plugins/ruflo-workflows/scripts/gaia-audit.mjs \
  --results ~/.cache/ruflo/gaia/results-latest.json \
  --trajectories <submission>/trajectories.jsonl \
  --metadata <submission>/metadata.json \
  [--repo-root <dir>] [--dataset-dir <dir>]... [--skip-source-scan]

Check	Severity	RDI/METR vector
answer-leakage	CRITICAL	gold answer appears in a fetched tool output (GAIA's #1 vector)
no-work-pass	CRITICAL	correct with zero turns / zero output tokens / no LLM call
oracle-leakage	CRITICAL	gold answer present in the agent-visible input prompt
grader-isolation	CRITICAL	tool call targets judge/grader/witness paths (monkey-patching)
normalization-collision	WARN	degenerate/generic answer credited under aggressive normalization
voting-disclosure	WARN	hidden best-of-N not disclosed in metadata
split-integrity	WARN/INFO	validation-split (public gold) presented as held-out
answer-key-reads	CRITICAL	answer/gold/solution/ground-truth-shaped path read outside the sanctioned dataset dir (runner sources + produced artifacts)
dynamic-eval	CRITICAL	eval() / new Function() / exec of a non-literal (task-derivable) command in the gaia-bench runner sources
judge-injection	WARN	prompt-injection markers in the agent's produced answer/output aimed at the LLM judge

The last three form the static source-scan family (ported from the reverted #2547 duplicate): they scan the harness sources + produced artifacts rather than the trajectory, so they enforce today with no instrumentation. answer-key-reads and dynamic-eval are fail-closed; both skip (never false-pass) when the runner sources cannot be located (e.g. run standalone) or under --skip-source-scan. --repo-root overrides where the runner sources are found; --dataset-dir (repeatable) sets the sanctioned dataset dirs (default ~/.cache/huggingface, ~/.cache/ruflo/gaia/dataset). dynamic-eval is tuned to pass ruflo's own multi-line gcloud secrets … execSync calls (fixed-string commands and RegExp.prototype.exec are not flagged). judge-injection is output-side and distinct from oracle-leakage (input-side), so both run.

Exit 0 clean · exit 1 on any CRITICAL fail (or WARN fail under --strict) · exit 2 usage error. Checks whose data the trajectory schema does not yet capture return skip with a harness_gap note (see ADR-167 §7) — they never report a false pass.

Expected output

Validating GAIA benchmark environment...

[PASS] ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set (sk-ant-...abc3)
[PASS] HF_TOKEN set (hf_...xyz9)
[WARN] GOOGLE_AI_API_KEY not set — Gemini routing disabled
[WARN] GOOGLE_CUSTOM_SEARCH_API_KEY not set — web_search using DuckDuckGo fallback
[PASS] TypeScript build clean (0 errors)
[PASS] HF dataset reachable (1 question fetched)
[PASS] Witness manifest valid (Ed25519 verified)
[PASS] All 5 benchmark source files present
[PASS] CLI binary resolves to v3.6.x

2 warnings (use --strict to fail on warnings)
Ready to run /gaia run

Steps Claude should follow

1. For each env var, check process.env first, then attempt gcloud secrets versions access latest --secret=<name> silently.
2. Run npx tsc --noEmit in the CLI package directory; capture stderr.
3. Run a 1-question dry-run fetch: node … gaia-bench run --smoke-only --limit=1 --dry-run.
4. Run the witness verify script.
5. If --audit is set and a results file exists, run plugins/ruflo-workflows/scripts/gaia-audit.mjs (ADR-167); treat a CRITICAL audit failure as an error and a WARN failure as a warning.
6. Print the validation table and exit with code 1 if any errors (not warnings) are found, unless --strict is set in which case warnings also cause exit 1.