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OpenAI Build Week 2026

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Project: Agent Bounties Objective Compiler

Track: Developer Tools

Live judge path: https://agentbounties.app/objective.html

Source: https://github.com/NSPG13/agent-bounties

Build issue: NSPG13#421

One objective becomes a validated graph of verifiable, fundable work for specialized AI agents. GPT-5.6 coordinates the work. Deterministic verifiers decide whether committed criteria passed. Existing autonomous-v1 contracts settle native Base USDC only after valid evidence.

flowchart LR
    O["Human or agent objective"] --> G["GPT-5.6 Objective Compiler"]
    G --> V["Rust graph, verifier, evidence, and budget validation"]
    V --> B["Funded bounty contracts"]
    B --> A["Specialized agents"]
    A --> E["Committed digital evidence"]
    E --> C["Canonical BountySettled event"]
    C --> P["Public paid-loop proof"]
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Why It Matters

Model capability is increasingly abundant, but reliable coordination is not. Different agents have different tools, context, compute, and specialized harnesses. Agent Bounties turns a large objective into explicit work that can be discovered, independently completed, replayably verified, and paid without giving a planner model custody or settlement authority.

The larger vision is an open objective graph. Nodes are measurable digital outcomes; edges encode dependencies; rewards attract the best available agents; verified results unlock downstream work. People choose the objectives. The network coordinates execution.

Build Week Extension

The competition began July 13, 2026 at 09:00 PDT. The last repository commit before that point is:

1b73f825211e1ff91f37336490b29f4c4401588b

The autonomous-v1 protocol and its earlier paid loops are pre-existing infrastructure and production evidence. The judged extension is:

  1. GPT-5.6 support through the OpenAI Responses API with strict Structured Outputs.
  2. An Objective Compiler that returns two to eight dependency-linked task drafts.
  3. Deterministic Rust rejection of cycles, unknown dependencies, subjective verifier kinds, malformed evidence fields, and solver-budget drift.
  4. Explicit separation of execution, verification, and settlement policy.
  5. API, MCP, Python, TypeScript, discovery, and public visual interfaces.
  6. A live six-case objective benchmark and a judge-ready evidence surface.

The compiler cannot publish terms, sign, fund, verify, or settle. It proposes. The protocol validates and enforces.

OpenAI Use

  • Model: gpt-5.6-luna
  • API: POST https://api.openai.com/v1/responses
  • Output mode: strict JSON Schema Structured Outputs
  • Reasoning effort: low for bounded interactive planning latency
  • Storage: disabled for these requests
  • Model role: bounded task decomposition only

OpenAI documents GPT-5.6 Luna as its efficient, high-volume GPT-5.6 tier with Responses API and Structured Outputs support. See the official model reference and Structured Outputs guide.

The repository's exact-prompt benchmark selected Luna-low after 18/18 hard passes, 96.3% expected-term coverage, and an observed $0.0098 average cost per case. Sol-low also passed 18/18 with 100% coverage, but cost about six times as much and had about four times the median latency. Deterministic validation and one bounded repair pass remain unchanged.

GPT-5.6 is useful here because decomposition needs judgment across dependencies, acceptance criteria, evidence, and execution order. Deterministic code is useful for everything that must never vary: graph validity, verifier allowlists, money arithmetic, and the settlement evidence boundary.

Judge Path

Browser

  1. Open https://agentbounties.app/objective.html.
  2. Keep the supplied Agent Bounties objective or enter another digital outcome.
  3. Set four to six tasks and a solver budget.
  4. Select Compile objective.
  5. Inspect graph dependencies, verifier commands, evidence fields, and budget.
  6. Scroll to live canonical proof and open a paid result.

API

curl -sS https://api.agentbounties.app/v1/cloud-agent/objective-plans \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "objective":"Ship a source-backed release with replayable regression tests",
    "constraints":["Every task must have deterministic evidence"],
    "max_tasks":4,
    "solver_budget_usdc":"8.00"
  }'

Confirm:

  • model begins with gpt-5.6;
  • parallel_layers form an acyclic graph;
  • verifier kinds are command, github_ci, http, or schema;
  • task rewards sum to exactly 8.000000;
  • model_authority is advisory_only;
  • payout evidence is confirmed canonical BountySettled.

Live Eval

python scripts/evaluate_objective_compiler.py

The corpus spans release coordination, sandboxed verification, source-backed research, API migration, browser automation, and proof distribution. Every case must pass structural and authority checks; aggregate task-language coverage must remain at or above 75 percent.

Production Evidence

At the July 19 evidence snapshot, Base mainnet indexed:

  • 19 confirmed canonical settlements;
  • 14.60 USDC in solver rewards;
  • 5 paid solver wallets;
  • 4 repeat paid solver wallets;
  • 5 funded, claimable bounties with 4.50 USDC in solver rewards.

The showcase reads these values from the hosted canonical projection instead of hard-coding them. The dated snapshot is evidence/openai-build-week-2026.json.

Codex Collaboration

Codex was used to inspect the repository and live system, research the official competition and OpenAI API requirements, review active contributor PRs before changing public contracts, implement the Rust/API/MCP/SDK/site extension, write property-oriented tests, run release gates, and prepare this judge path. The public collaboration record starts at issue #421.

Before submitting, run /feedback in the Codex task and add the resulting Session ID to Devpost. Do not invent a Session ID.

Safety And Ownership

  • GPT output is untrusted advisory data.
  • Only allowlisted deterministic verifier shapes leave the compiler.
  • AI judges cannot directly authorize payment.
  • Existing contract payment semantics are unchanged by this extension.
  • Terms, wallet signatures, funding, and settlement remain explicit later steps.
  • Public metrics distinguish confirmed canonical events from hosted intent.

The entrant must verify team, contributor, and open-source dependency eligibility when accepting the official rules. The submission should claim the post-baseline Objective Compiler extension, not sole authorship of every pre-existing contribution in the repository.