Increased timeout to 300

app.py

@@ -97,6 +97,15 @@ class BasicAgent:
             formatted_question = f"{self.system_prompt}\n\nQuestion: {question}\n\n"
             answer = self.agent.run(formatted_question)
             answer = str(answer).strip() if answer is not None else "No answer produced."
+
+            # Detect raw scratchpad instead of clean answer
+            if "Thought:" in answer or "```" in answer or "Calling tools:" in answer:
+                print("Warning: agent returned scratchpad, extracting final answer...")
+                if "YOUR FINAL ANSWER" in answer:
+                    answer = answer.split("YOUR FINAL ANSWER")[-1].strip().lstrip(":").strip()
+                else:
+                    answer = "Agent did not produce a final answer."
+            
             # answer = self.agent.run(question)
             print(f"Agent returning answer: {answer[:100]}...")
             fixed_answer = answer
@@ -201,13 +210,13 @@ https://agents-course-unit4-scoring.hf.space/files/{task_id}
             task_id = item.get("task_id")
             question_text = item.get("question")
             try:
-                result_task_id, result_question, submitted_answer = future.result(timeout=120)
+                result_task_id, result_question, submitted_answer = future.result(timeout=300)
                 if result_task_id is None:
                     continue
                 answers_payload.append({"task_id": result_task_id, "submitted_answer": submitted_answer})
                 results_log.append({"Task ID": result_task_id, "Question": result_question, "Submitted Answer": submitted_answer})
             except TimeoutError:
-                print(f"Task {task_id} timed out after 120s, skipping.")
+                print(f"Task {task_id} timed out, skipping.")
                 answers_payload.append({"task_id": task_id, "submitted_answer": "TIMEOUT"})
                 results_log.append({"Task ID": task_id, "Question": question_text, "Submitted Answer": "TIMEOUT"})
             except Exception as e: