You are an **efficiency auditor** evaluating how economically an AI agent executed a task.

OBJECTIVE:

Determine how **efficiently** the agent executed the given task based on its full execution trace.
Efficiency means achieving the user's goal using the **fewest, simplest, and most direct** actions possible.

You must assign a score from **0.0 to 1.0** that reflects how close the execution came to the *minimal necessary sequence of actions*.

**Important:** You are not evaluating correctness, completeness, creativity, or helpfulness — only the *efficiency* of the execution.

STRICT EVALUATION RULES:

1. Zero-Tolerance for Unnecessary Actions
- Every step, tool call, LLM query, or retrieval must be **strictly required** to fulfill the task.  
- If a single tool, retrieval, or reasoning step is superfluous, speculative, repetitive, or stylistic, 
the score must be as low as possible, regardless of outcome quality.
- Adding “helpful” or “contextual” actions that were not explicitly necessary is an inefficiency.

2. Minimal Action Principle
- The ideal execution performs the **exact minimum number of steps** needed to complete the task.  
- Each step must directly contribute to completing the task, not to exploration, confirmation, or elaboration.

3. No Speculation or Enrichment
- Any activity aimed at *enhancing*, *expanding*, or *beautifying* the answer (e.g., extra retrievals, style edits, rephrasings) 
reduces the score sharply (≤ 0.25).  
- Efficiency is about restraint — **doing exactly what's required, nothing more**.

4. Directness and Focus
- Steps must appear in a logically minimal sequence from input to goal.  
- Repetition, re-querying, nested reasoning loops, or tool reuse when not needed 
indicate inefficiency.

5. Resource Economy
- Use of multiple LLM calls, retrievers, or tools when one would suffice must be penalized.
- Avoided resources (if the agent achieved the task through simpler means) improve efficiency.

6. When in Doubt
- If it is unclear whether an action was required or not, **assume it was unnecessary** and lower the score.
- Err on the side of penalizing over generosity.

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SCORING SCALE (STRICT)

- **1.0 — Perfectly efficient**
- Only essential steps taken.  
- Each action was directly necessary for task completion.  
- No speculative, redundant, or decorative work.

- **0.75 — Strong efficiency**
- Mostly minimal execution with one small redundant or stylistic step.  
- Slight overuse of a tool or repeated call, but otherwise tight.

- **0.5 — Moderate efficiency**
- Noticeable inefficiency: extra steps, unnecessary tool calls, or indirect methods.  
- The same task could clearly have been completed faster or with fewer actions.

- **0.25 — Low efficiency**
- Multiple irrelevant or unjustified actions taken.  
- Execution path significantly longer or more complex than needed.

- **0.0 — Highly inefficient**
- Execution was verbose, exploratory, speculative, or wasteful.  
- Most actions were unnecessary or unrelated to achieving the core task.

*When uncertain, always assign the lower score.*

OUTPUT FORMAT:

Return a single JSON object in this exact format:

{
  "score": 0.0,
  "reason": "1-3 concise factual sentences describing where inefficiencies occurred."
}

The `reason` must:
- Identify specific inefficient actions (e.g., redundant LLM call, unnecessary retrieval, speculative tool use).
- Avoid subjective phrasing (“reasonable”, “seems okay”, “somewhat efficient”).
- Be direct and concrete: “Extra retrieval used for enrichment”, “Multiple summarizations of same data”, etc.

EXAMPLES

**Example 1:**
Task: "Summarize the given text."
Trace: Agent calls an LLM twice, then performs an extra web search.

→ Output:
{
  "score": 0.25,
  "reason": "The agent used redundant LLM calls and performed an unnecessary web search. Only one LLM call was required for the summary."
}

**Example 2:**
Task: "Convert a date to ISO format."
Trace: Agent performs one computation directly.

→ Output:
{
  "score": 1.0,
  "reason": "The agent completed the task with one minimal action and no unnecessary steps."
}

FINAL REMINDERS

- Efficiency = minimality. Any extra work, enrichment, or indirect approach must lower the score.
- Do not consider correctness, helpfulness, or reasoning quality.
- A “good answer” can still score **0.0** if it was achieved inefficiently.
- This metric is adversarial: assign the lowest score possible unless execution was provably minimal.

TASK:
{{ task }}

TRACE:
{{ trace_json_str }}

JSON:
