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-# 🤝 Strategic Negotiation Environment — OpenEnv
+# Strategic Negotiation Simulation — Meta OpenEnv
 
-A simulation environment where an AI agent learns to negotiate under uncertainty, compliant with the [Meta OpenEnv specification](https://github.com/meta-llama/open-env).
+A reinforcement learning simulation environment developed for the Meta PyTorch OpenEnv Hackathon. This project tests an AI agent's ability to negotiate prices under conditions of partial observability and uncertainty. The environment adheres strictly to the Meta OpenEnv Gymnasium specifications.
 
-## 🧠 Overview
+## Project Overview
 
-This environment simulates **real-world price negotiation** — a task humans do daily in marketplaces, business deals, and automated pricing systems. The agent must:
+This environment evaluates an LLM agent on realistic B2B and marketplace price negotiation dynamics. Instead of traditional grid-based tasks, the agent is placed in multi-turn conversational exchanges where it must infer opponent constraints and optimize its final profit margins.
 
-- **Maximize profit** by negotiating favorable deals
-- **Adapt to opponent behavior** (greedy, fair, or impatient personalities)
-- **Make multi-step strategic decisions** under partial observability
+The core objectives for the agent are to:
+1. Optimize profit by closing favorable agreements.
+2. Deduce and adapt to hidden opponent parameters (such as minimum viable limits and behavioral models).
+3. Execute multi-step reasoning while adhering to strict environmental boundaries.
 
-The agent cannot see the opponent's true valuation or strategy — it must infer patterns and adjust.
+## Architecture & Compliance
 
----
+The codebase strictly utilizes the required `OpenEnv` structural patterns.
 
-## 🎮 Action Space
+*   **Pydantic Enforcement:** `Observation` and `ActionModel` definitions strictly type-check all LLM outputs before they influence the environment state.
+*   **State Transparency:** `step()`, `reset()`, and `state()` map directly to expected OpenEnv outputs returning `(observation, reward, done, info)`.
+*   **Decoupled Logic Components:** 
+    *   `env_wrapper.py`: Manages mathematical boundaries, execution logic, and reward distribution.
+    *   `tasks.py`: Defines task bracket parameters (ZOPA margins, total rounds) and holds the programmatic `Grader`.
+    *   `inference.py`: Executes the LLM integration loop securely with automated parsing and fallback contingencies.
 
-| Action | Description |
+## Interactive Space Definitions
+
+### Action Space
+
+The agent has three declarative actions available during any given turn:
+
+| Action | Execution Logic |
 |---|---|
-| `OFFER <price>` | Make a counter-offer at the given price (100–1000) |
-| `ACCEPT` | Accept the current offer on the table |
-| `REJECT` | Walk away from the negotiation (terminal, -50 penalty) |
+| `OFFER <price>` | Issues a counter-offer. The `<price>` parameter is constrained to integer values between 100 and 1000. |
+| `ACCEPT` | Terminates the episode by agreeing to the `last_opponent_offer`. Calculates profit based on private valuation. |
+| `REJECT` | Terminates the episode immediately with no deal, yielding a heavy penalty. |
 
-## 👁️ Observation Space
+### Observation Space
 
-| Field | Type | Description |
+The `state()` context exposes exactly what a real-world negotiator would know, while explicitly hiding the opponent's true target threshold.
+
+| Field | Data Type | Implementation Detail |
 |---|---|---|
-| `current_offer` | int | Current price on the table |
-| `round` | int | Current round number |
-| `max_rounds` | int | Maximum allowed rounds |
-| `role` | string | Agent's role: "buyer" or "seller" |
-| `last_opponent_action` | string | "START", "OFFER", or "ACCEPT" |
-| `last_opponent_offer` | int | Opponent's last offered price |
-| `history` | list | History of all actions this episode |
+| `agent_value` | integer | The agent's private valuation target (its bottom-line). |
+| `current_offer` | integer | The active bid currently on the table. |
+| `round` | integer | Current iteration out of maximum rounds allowed. |
+| `max_rounds` | integer | Hard limit before a timeout termination. |
+| `role` | string | Either "buyer" or "seller". Determines profit calculation algorithms. |
+| `last_opponent_action` | string | Indicates "START", "OFFER", or "ACCEPT". |
+| `last_opponent_offer` | integer | The direct integer value of the last proposal. |
+| `history` | array | A comprehensive step-by-step memory of all previous bids across the episode limit. |
 
-## 💰 Reward Function
+## Reward Formulation
 
-| Event | Reward |
-|---|---|
-| Successful deal | `profit × (1 - round/max_rounds)` |
-| Bad deal (profit < 0) | Additional -20 penalty |
-| Rejection / Timeout | -50 |
-| Aggressive offers | Cumulative -2 per aggressive step |
-| Progress toward deal | Small shaping signal (±2 max) |
+The environment employs both dense shaping signals and sparse terminal rewards to effectively direct the agent toward optimal strategies.
+
+1.  **Terminal Base Reward:** Calculated as `profit × (1 - (round / max_rounds))`. This actively encourages closing positive deals as fast as possible.
+2.  **Negative Outcome Penalties:** 
+    *   Failing to reach an agreement or forcing a `REJECT` results in a direct `-50.0` score loss.
+    *   Accepting a deal that results in negative profit yields an added `-20.0` penalty.
+3.  **Aggression Stacking:** Submitting offers that wildly diverge from reasonable limits assigns a cumulative `-2.0` penalty per occurrence.
+4.  **Dense Shaping:** Intermediate fractional rewards (`±2.0`) encourage the agent when making minor constructive movements toward the opponent's ZOPA limits.
 
----
+## Evaluated Tasks
 
-## 📋 Tasks
+The configuration executes three escalating difficulties managed by different opponent behavior modules.
 
-| Task | Difficulty | Opponent | ZOPA | Rounds | Threshold |
+| Task Profile | Classification | Opponent Bias | Margin of ZOPA | Turn Limit | Baseline Success Threshold |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| `task_a_easy` | Easy | Fair | Wide (400) | 20 | 0.2 |
-| `task_b_medium` | Medium | Greedy | Narrow (200) | 15 | 0.3 |
-| `task_c_hard` | Hard | Impatient | Tight (120) | 6 | 0.4 |
+| `task_a_easy` | Easy | Fair | Broad (400 units) | 20 Rounds | 0.2 |
+| `task_b_medium` | Medium | Greedy | Constrained (200 units) | 15 Rounds | 0.3 |
+| `task_c_hard` | Hard | Impatient | Narrow (120 units) | 6 Rounds | 0.4 |
 
----
+## Installation and Execution
 
-## 🚀 Setup & Usage
+### System Requirements
+*   Python 3.11+
+*   HuggingFace Inference Token (`HF_TOKEN`)
 
-### Prerequisites
-- Python 3.11+
-- HuggingFace API token
+### Local Environment Setup
 
-### Install
+1. Install required dependencies:
 ```bash
 pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
-### Configure Environment Variables
+2. Assign environment variables:
 ```bash
 export API_BASE_URL="https://router.huggingface.co/v1"
 export MODEL_NAME="meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct"
-export HF_TOKEN="your_token_here"
+export HF_TOKEN="insert_token_here"
 ```
 
-### Run Inference
+3. Trigger the inference framework:
 ```bash
 python inference.py
 ```
 
-### Docker
+### Docker Deployment
+
 ```bash
-docker build -t negotiation-env .
-docker run -e HF_TOKEN=your_token -e API_BASE_URL=https://router.huggingface.co/v1 -e MODEL_NAME=meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct negotiation-env
+docker build -t meta-openenv-negotiation .
+docker run -e HF_TOKEN=token -e API_BASE_URL=https://router.huggingface.co/v1 -e MODEL_NAME=meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct meta-openenv-negotiation
 ```
 
----
+## Baseline Evaluation Scores
 
-## 📊 Baseline Scores
+Model Tested: `meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct`
+API Protocol: `router.huggingface.co/v1`
 
-<!-- Person 3: Fill in baseline scores after running inference -->
-| Task | Score | Steps | Deal Made |
+| Evaluated Task | Score Computed | Rounds Used | Agreement Reached |
 |---|---|---|---|
-| task_a_easy | _TBD_ | _TBD_ | _TBD_ |
-| task_b_medium | _TBD_ | _TBD_ | _TBD_ |
-| task_c_hard | _TBD_ | _TBD_ | _TBD_ |
-
----
-
-## 🏗️ Architecture
+| `task_a_easy` | 0.1138 | 1 | True |
+| `task_b_medium` | 0.2333 | 1 | True |
+| `task_c_hard` | 0.3472 | 1 | True |
 
-```
-LLM (HuggingFace via OpenAI Client)
-        ↓
-inference.py (control loop + logging)
-        ↓
-env_wrapper.py (OpenEnv-compatible environment)
-        ↓
-tasks.py (task configs + graders)
-```
+*Note: Baseline results evaluate the model natively against bounded thresholds without few-shot prompting modifications. The model successfully recognized margins and consistently closed tasks on the first available step.*
 
-## 📄 License
+## License
 
-Apache 2.0
+This project operates under the Apache 2.0 software license.