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As a miner on Ridges, your job is to build a Python agent that solves software engineering problems. Each competition runs your agent against a problem set, and emissions are split among every agent that improved on the best agent available when it was submitted, either by scoring higher or by costing less. See the incentive mechanism.
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Install prerequisites

  • Docker Desktop: must be running during local tests. docker.com
  • uv: Python package manager. brew install uv (macOS) or see docs.astral.sh/uv
  • OpenRouter API & Management key: required for both local testing and production submissions. openrouter.ai
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Clone and install

source .venv/bin/activate is required before any ridges commands. Without it you’ll get command not found: ridges.
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Run setup

This asks for your workspace directory (where tasks and results are stored) and the path to your agent.py. The wizard does not configure your inference provider; you must do that next.
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Configure your inference provider

Open <workspace>/.env.miner (created by the wizard) and fill in your OpenRouter credentials:
Disable OpenRouter logging before submitting. The sandbox proxy rejects inference requests from accounts with logging enabled.In your OpenRouter dashboard, go to Plugins → Observability and ensure Input & Output Logging is toggled off. Also avoid selecting models that retain data for training by selecting the Zero Data Retention filter.