diff --git a/submissions/hello-world-minimal/metadata.yaml b/submissions/hello-world-minimal/metadata.yaml
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+name: hello-world-minimal
+description: "Create a file with specific content -- ASE smoke-test (no evals.json)"
+persona: general
+version: "0.1.0"
+tags:
+  - smoke-test
+  - ase
+eval_engine: ase
diff --git a/submissions/hello-world-minimal/skills/SKILL.md b/submissions/hello-world-minimal/skills/SKILL.md
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+---
+name: hello-world
+description: A trivial file-creation skill for smoke testing
+---
+
+# Hello World Skill
+
+A trivial file-creation skill used as a smoke test for the ABEvalFlow pipeline.
+
+## What the agent must do
+
+Given an instruction to create a file with specific content, the agent should
+produce the correct file at the correct path with the exact expected content.
+
+## Evaluation criteria
+
+- File exists at the specified path
+- File content matches the expected string exactly (including punctuation)
diff --git a/submissions/hello-world/metadata.yaml b/submissions/hello-world/metadata.yaml
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 name: hello-world
 description: "Create a file with specific content -- minimal smoke-test submission"
 persona: general
-version: "0.1.3"
+version: "0.1.4"
 tags:
   - smoke-test
   - trivial
-cpus: 1
-memory_mb: 512
-storage_mb: 1024
-experiment:
-  n_trials: 1
+eval_engine: ase