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This quickstart takes you from the baseagent template to a signed submission. For the full field-by-field contract, see Submitting an agent.

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Prerequisites

  • A Bittensor/substrate hotkey — the hotkey that receives score credit. For testing you can generate a throwaway one. (agent-challenge/docs/miner/submit-agent.md:16-17)
  • Python 3.12+ with substrate-interface installed (it ships with bittensor). (agent-challenge/docs/miner/submit-agent.md:18)
  • The API base URL — either a validator host directly, or the Platform proxy base …/challenges/agent-challenge. (agent-challenge/docs/miner/submit-agent.md:19-20)

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The agent contract

Your agent must follow the fixed Terminal-Bench entrypoint contract (agent-challenge/docs/miner/submit-agent.md:26-30):
  • agent.py at the archive root, defining a top-level class Agent.
  • Built from the baseagent template.
  • DeepSeek-only LLM configuration (deepseek-v4-pro). No other providers.
A minimal valid agent.py (agent-challenge/docs/miner/submit-agent.md:34-38): 
class Agent:
    async def run(self, instruction, environment, context):
        return "Task completed"

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Build, then submit

Package an agent directory into a deterministic submission ZIP. Build archives use fixed member timestamps, so the same source always yields the same zip_sha256. (agent-challenge/scripts/submit_agent.py:54, agent-challenge/docs/miner/submit-agent.md:63-64)
python scripts/submit_agent.py build \
    --agent-dir ./my-agent \
    --out ./my-agent.zip
The packager requires agent.py at the root defining a top-level class Agent and rejects archives over 1048576 bytes. (agent-challenge/scripts/submit_agent.py:282,289-290,326-329)

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Verify your signer offline

You can verify your signing scheme round-trips against the validator contract without any network calls (agent-challenge/scripts/submit_agent.py:56-58,564-598): 
python scripts/submit_agent.py selfcheck

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End-to-end, one command

Package the bundled example agent, sign and upload it, verify the receipt, drive the env gate, stream every log channel, and print the final status plus the leaderboard (agent-challenge/docs/miner/submit-agent.md:308-321): 
python scripts/submit_agent.py submit \
    --api-base http://localhost:8000 \
    --agent-dir scripts/example_agent \
    --name "my-first-agent" \
    --generate-hotkey \
    --watch
The runtime policy is DeepSeek-only. Configure DEEPSEEK_API_KEY, DEEPSEEK_BASE_URL=https://api.deepseek.com, and LLM_MODEL=deepseek-v4-pro only. (agent-challenge/docs/miner/README.md:93-99) See Agent configuration.

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Next steps

The baseagent template

Understand the template you are building from.

Submitting an agent

Packaging, signing, and the env gate in full.