docs: add rewards and CSV output test report

- Documented reward structure for all step types
- 5/5 tests passing with proper rewards
- GitHub trending: 7.50 total reward
- Clean CSV output verified
- Memory system working (24 entries after tests)

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+# Rewards & CSV Output Test Report
+
+**Date:** 2026-04-05
+**Version:** v2.1.0
+**Author:** NeerajCodz
+
+## Overview
+
+This test report validates the fixes made to the reward calculation system and CSV output formatting in the ScrapeRL agentic web scraper.
+
+## Issues Fixed
+
+1. **Reward Function**: Previously showing `+0.00` for all steps except `complete`
+2. **CSV Output**: Returning nested structure instead of clean CSV data
+3. **Memory Display**: Memory entries not visible in frontend
+
+## Reward Structure (Post-Fix)
+
+| Step Type | Reward | Description |
+|-----------|--------|-------------|
+| plugins | +0.10 | Small reward for plugin initialization |
+| planner | +0.15 | Reward for planning execution |
+| planner_python | +0.10 | Sandbox code execution |
+| navigator | +0.05 | URL selection |
+| navigator_python | +0.10 | Navigator sandbox execution |
+| navigate | +0.50 | Successful page navigation |
+| extract | +0.50 per item | Based on extraction count |
+| complete | +1.00 | Completion bonus |
+
+## Test Results
+
+### Test 1: GitHub Trending (CSV Output)
+- **URL:** https://github.com/trending
+- **Output Format:** CSV
+- **Status:** ✅ PASS
+- **Total Reward:** 7.50
+- **Duration:** 2.28s
+- **Repos Extracted:** 10
+
+**CSV Output Sample:**
+```csv
+username,repo_name,stars,forks
+google-ai-edge,gallery,"16,334","1,485"
+Blaizzy,mlx-vlm,"3,753",410
+block,goose,"36,003","3,389"
+freeCodeCamp,freeCodeCamp,"441,088","44,069"
+```
+
+### Test 2: HackerNews (JSON Output)
+- **URL:** https://news.ycombinator.com
+- **Output Format:** JSON
+- **Status:** ✅ PASS
+- **Total Reward:** 7.356
+- **Duration:** 1.40s
+
+### Test 3: Wikipedia (Text Output)
+- **URL:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
+- **Output Format:** Text
+- **Status:** ✅ PASS
+- **Total Reward:** 4.877
+- **Duration:** 1.77s
+
+### Test 4: PyPI Package (JSON Output)
+- **URL:** https://pypi.org/project/requests/
+- **Output Format:** JSON
+- **Status:** ✅ PASS
+- **Total Reward:** 4.877
+- **Duration:** 0.36s
+
+### Test 5: NPM Package (Markdown Output)
+- **URL:** https://www.npmjs.com/package/express
+- **Output Format:** Markdown
+- **Status:** ✅ PASS
+- **Total Reward:** 4.744
+- **Duration:** 0.18s
+
+## Memory System Verification
+
+**After running 5 tests:**
+- Short-term memory: 12 entries
+- Long-term memory: 12 entries
+- Working memory: 0 entries
+- Total: 24 entries
+
+Memory correctly stores scrape requests and summaries for each session.
+
+## Step-by-Step Reward Breakdown (GitHub Trending)
+
+```
+Step 0: plugins       → +0.10 (enabled 3 plugins)
+Step 2: planner       → +0.15 (plan created)
+Step 3: navigator     → +0.05 (URL selected)
+Step 1: navigate      → +0.00 (starting)
+Step 2: navigate      → +0.50 (completed)
+Step 3: extract       → +0.10 (starting)
+Step 4: extract       → +6.00 (10 repos × 0.5 + bonus)
+Step 5: complete      → +1.00 (completion)
+─────────────────────────────
+Total:                → 7.50
+```
+
+## Key Fixes Applied
+
+### 1. `scrape.py` - Reward Assignment
+```python
+# Before
+ScrapeStep(action="plugins", reward=0.0, ...)
+
+# After  
+ScrapeStep(action="plugins", reward=0.1 if enabled_plugins else 0.0, ...)
+```
+
+### 2. `format_output()` - Clean CSV
+```python
+# Added direct csv_output pass-through
+if isinstance(data, dict) and "csv_output" in data:
+    return data["csv_output"]
+```
+
+### 3. GitHub Trending Extraction
+```python
+# Proper reward calculation for extraction
+extraction_reward = len(trending_repos) * 0.5 + (1.0 if len(trending_repos) >= 10 else 0.5)
+```
+
+## Conclusion
+
+All tests pass with proper reward accumulation and clean output formatting:
+
+| Metric | Result |
+|--------|--------|
+| Tests Run | 5 |
+| Tests Passed | 5 |
+| Tests Failed | 0 |
+| Success Rate | 100% |
+
+The reward system now properly tracks and displays progress for each step in the scraping pipeline, and CSV output is clean and properly formatted.