tasks/task_1_easy.json

{
  "task_id": 1,
  "name": "Basic Prioritization",
  "difficulty": "easy",
  "description": "Learn to respond to high-priority emails and ignore spam within a normal workday. Time budget is generous — agent can make minor mistakes and still recover. Scoring rewards relationship health (60%) over raw value (40%), teaching the agent that ignoring even one VIP costs more than skipping a spam email saves.",
  "num_emails": 20,
  "vip_count": 5,
  "normal_count": 10,
  "spam_count": 5,
  "time_budget": 480,
  "episode_length": 20,
  "avg_minutes_per_email": 24,
  "features": {
    "action_cost_asymmetry": true,
    "dynamic_followups": false,
    "time_pressure": "low",
    "sunset_penalty": false,
    "time_traps": false
  },
  "what_agent_must_learn": [
    "Respond to VIP emails — ignoring them costs relationship health",
    "Ignore Spam — responding wastes time with zero reward",
    "Short high-priority Normal emails are worth responding to",
    "Very long low-priority Normal emails may not be worth the time cost"
  ],
  "scoring": {
    "formula": "0.4 * value_efficiency + 0.6 * relationship_health",
    "value_efficiency_weight": 0.4,
    "relationship_health_weight": 0.6,
    "notes": "Relationship health is weighted higher to penalise ignoring VIPs. Value efficiency measures whether the agent responded to emails worth responding to."
  }
}