diff --git a/.flake8 b/.flake8
index a691dd64..bcd424cc 100644
--- a/.flake8
+++ b/.flake8
@@ -11,4 +11,5 @@ exclude =
     reports/*,
     dist/*,
     agent/*,
-    code
+    code,
+    agbenchmark/challenges/*
diff --git a/agbenchmark/challenges b/agbenchmark/challenges
index a03042bc..b05bd27b 160000
--- a/agbenchmark/challenges
+++ b/agbenchmark/challenges
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit a03042bc6ed4f7006d89cc54e128219997f506cf
+Subproject commit b05bd27b8b056843e03c3e9d6056470eaba6e7dd
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e2023bd3..8cd1430b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -83,4 +83,4 @@ use_parentheses = true
 ensure_newline_before_comments = true
 line_length = 88
 sections = ["FUTURE", "STDLIB", "THIRDPARTY", "FIRSTPARTY", "LOCALFOLDER"]
-skip_glob = [".tox", "__pycache__", "*.pyc", "venv*/*", "reports", "venv", "env", "node_modules", ".env", ".venv", "dist", "agent/*"]
+skip_glob = [".tox", "__pycache__", "*.pyc", "venv*/*", "reports", "venv", "env", "node_modules", ".env", ".venv", "dist", "agent/*", "agbenchmark/challenges/*"]