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------Action------
THOUGHT:
None
ACTION TYPE:
None
ACTION CONTENT:
None

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RESPONSE (User Message):
USER QUERY: Decode an alien message encoded as follows: first, it's encoded in ASCII; then, it's reversed; and finally, a Caesar cipher with a shift of 5 is applied. The message is '7a686b7a686d666d686b'.
Save the final answer in the variable `final_answer`.

Use the code base located at `/root/m3eval/m3eval` to solve this query. Your current directory is `/root/playground`.

If the import path in retrieved code block says `testing/dir_name/file_name.py` and you want to import variable, function or class called `obj` from this file, then import using `from testing.dir_name.file_name import obj`.

The code base path has either been installed via pip or has been already been added to the system path via
```
import sys
sys.path.extend(['/root/m3eval'])
```

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------Action------
THOUGHT:
Before writing the code to decode the message, I need to search for functions in the `message_decoder.py` file that can help with decoding a Caesar cipher and converting a hex string to ASCII, as these are steps required to decode the alien message. I will start by searching for the relevant functions.
ACTION TYPE:
search
ACTION CONTENT:
(type: FUNCTION) AND (file_path: *\/message_decoder.py) AND (text: caesar)
(type: FUNCTION) AND (file_path: *\/message_decoder.py) AND (text: hex AND text: ascii)

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RESPONSE (Retrieval Result):
QUERY:
(type: FUNCTION) AND (file_path: *\/message_decoder.py) AND (text: caesar)

CODE BLOCKS:
---
file_path=m3eval/message_decoder.py
lines=[9, 17]
type=FUNCTION
content={
def caesar_decode(message: str, shift: int):
    """Caesar cipher decoder."""
    shift = int(shift)
    decoded = ''.join(chr((ord(char) - shift - 65) % 26 + 65)
                      if char.isupper() else chr((ord(char) - shift - 97) % 26 + 97)
                      if char.islower() else char
                      for char in message)
    return decoded
}
---
(All code blocks matching the query were returned.)

QUERY:
(type: FUNCTION) AND (file_path: *\/message_decoder.py) AND (text: hex AND text: ascii)

CODE BLOCKS:
---
file_path=m3eval/message_decoder.py
lines=[0, 3]
type=FUNCTION
content={
def convert_hex_to_ascii(hex_string: str):
    ascii_string = bytes.fromhex(str(hex_string)).decode('utf-8')
    return ascii_string
}
---
(All code blocks matching the query were returned.)

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Step 3
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------Action------
THOUGHT:
The search results returned the `caesar_decode` function for decoding a Caesar cipher and the `convert_hex_to_ascii` function for converting a hex string to ASCII. I will now write the code to decode the alien message using these functions. The steps will be to first convert the hex string to ASCII, then reverse the string, and finally apply the Caesar cipher decoding with a shift of 5. The final answer will be stored in the variable `final_answer`.
ACTION TYPE:
code
ACTION CONTENT:
from m3eval.message_decoder import convert_hex_to_ascii, caesar_decode

# The encoded alien message
encoded_message = '7a686b7a686d666d686b'

# Step 1: Convert hex to ASCII
ascii_message = convert_hex_to_ascii(encoded_message)

# Step 2: Reverse the ASCII string
reversed_message = ascii_message[::-1]

# Step 3: Apply Caesar cipher decoding with a shift of 5
final_answer = caesar_decode(reversed_message, 5)

-----Response-----
RESPONSE (Execution Result):
CODE EXECUTED WITHOUT ERROR, STDOUT WAS EMPTY
RELEVANT VARIABLES (only shown if string rep. has changed after code exec):
{"convert_hex_to_ascii": <function convert_hex_to_ascii at 0x7f89b8608f40>, "caesar_decode": <function caesar_decode at 0x7f89b86091c0>, "encoded_message": 7a686b7a686d666d686b, "ascii_message": zhkzhmfmhk, "reversed_message": khmfmhzkhz, "final_answer": fchahcufcu}

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------Action------
THOUGHT:
The code executed without error and the `final_answer` variable contains the decoded message 'fchahcufcu'. The task is complete.
ACTION TYPE:
done
ACTION CONTENT:
True

-----Response-----
None