# Instructions for AI agents This repository is a submission to the Protostar Challenge: Climate Risk Intelligence. Follow these rules in every task. ## Data rule (never break it) - Forecasts are made as of 2018-12-31. Weather data used as a forecast input must be dated on or before 2018-12-31. - Do not download, query or use weather observations dated 2019-01-01 or later, from any source (e.g., NOAA, Meteostat, Open-Meteo, ERA5, weather websites), nor 2019–2025 data driven by the weather (e.g., streamflow, air quality, energy demand). - Set an end date of 2018-12-31 or earlier on every weather download. - Never write `predicted_value` from memory or from a web search: every value must come from the code's model. - If a task seems to need weather data after 2018, stop and ask a team member. - Data that does not respond to the weather (e.g., census, land cover, elevation) may come from any year; record its source in `data/README.md`. ## Working rules - Training data: `CMU-OSPO/protostar-climate-train-to-2018` (Hugging Face). - Code goes in `code/`, curated data in `data/` (described in `data/README.md`). - After changing `submission.csv`, run `python code/check_submission.py`. - The code must reproduce `submission.csv` without an agent (scripts or notebooks that run top to bottom). - Never write tokens or credentials into any file. - Summarize what you did in the README's "AI Tools and Agents" section. ## Team notes