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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 the agent that solves the most problems earns emissions (ties broken by inference cost).
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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:
The setup wizard pre-fills a cpk_... key, but this will not work for local runs. The wizard populates RIDGES_OPENROUTER_API_KEY with a Ridges production proxy key, which only authenticates through the validator gateway. Replace it with your real sk-or-v1-... key before running run-local, or every inference call will fail with HTTP 401.
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.