diff --git a/environments/aci_bench/aci_bench/aci_bench.py b/environments/aci_bench/aci_bench/aci_bench.py
index 512d0439..1392f186 100644
--- a/environments/aci_bench/aci_bench/aci_bench.py
+++ b/environments/aci_bench/aci_bench/aci_bench.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from typing import Any
 
+import evaluate
 import verifiers as vf
 from datasets import Dataset, DatasetDict, concatenate_datasets, load_dataset
 from datasets.utils.logging import disable_progress_bar
@@ -99,6 +100,7 @@ def load_environment(
     judge_base_url: str | None = None,
     judge_api_key: str | None = None,
     system_prompt: str | None = None,
+    compute_auto_metrics: bool = True,
     **kwargs: Any,
 ) -> vf.Environment:
     # -------- load dataset and convert to vf format --------
@@ -116,6 +118,18 @@ def load_environment(
     # valid_ds = _to_vf_format(dataset["valid"])
     test_ds = _to_vf_format(concatenate_datasets([dataset["test1"], dataset["test2"], dataset["test3"]]))
 
+    # -------- initialize automatic metrics --------
+    rouge_metric = None
+    bertscore_metric = None
+
+    if compute_auto_metrics:
+        try:
+            rouge_metric = evaluate.load("rouge")
+            bertscore_metric = evaluate.load("bertscore")
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"Warning: Could not load automatic metrics: {e}")
+            compute_auto_metrics = False
+
     # -------- normalize answer_format --------
     answer_format = AnswerFormat(answer_format) if isinstance(answer_format, str) else answer_format
 
@@ -132,6 +146,8 @@ def load_environment(
     # -------- setup judge --------
     api_key = default_judge_api_key(judge_base_url) if judge_api_key is None else judge_api_key
     sampling_args, default_headers = judge_sampling_args_and_headers(judge_model, judge_base_url)
+    # Remove extra_body as OpenAI doesn't support the usage tracking parameter
+    sampling_args.pop("extra_body", None)
 
     judge_parser = JSONParser(fields=["accuracy", "completeness", "clarity"])
     judge_rubric = vf.JudgeRubric(
@@ -174,6 +190,50 @@ async def judge_rubric_reward(completion: Messages, info: Info, state: State, **
             }
         )
 
+        # --- Automatic Metrics (BLEU, ROUGE, BERTScore) ---
+        if compute_auto_metrics and completion_text and gold_response:
+            auto_metrics: dict[str, Any] = {}
+            predictions = [completion_text]
+            references = [gold_response]
+
+            # BLEU (with smoothing for sentence-level evaluation)
+            try:
+                from sacrebleu.metrics import BLEU
+
+                bleu_scorer = BLEU(smooth_method="exp", effective_order=True)
+                bleu_result = bleu_scorer.sentence_score(completion_text, [gold_response])
+                auto_metrics["bleu"] = bleu_result.score / 100.0  # normalize to 0-1
+            except Exception:
+                auto_metrics["bleu"] = 0.0
+
+            # ROUGE
+            try:
+                rouge_scores = rouge_metric.compute(predictions=predictions, references=references)
+                auto_metrics["rouge1"] = rouge_scores.get("rouge1", 0.0)
+                auto_metrics["rouge2"] = rouge_scores.get("rouge2", 0.0)
+                auto_metrics["rougeL"] = rouge_scores.get("rougeL", 0.0)
+                auto_metrics["rougeLsum"] = rouge_scores.get("rougeLsum", 0.0)
+            except Exception:
+                auto_metrics["rouge1"] = 0.0
+                auto_metrics["rouge2"] = 0.0
+                auto_metrics["rougeL"] = 0.0
+                auto_metrics["rougeLsum"] = 0.0
+
+            # BERTScore
+            try:
+                bert_scores = bertscore_metric.compute(predictions=predictions, references=references, lang="en")
+                auto_metrics["bertscore_precision"] = (
+                    bert_scores["precision"][0] if bert_scores.get("precision") else 0.0
+                )
+                auto_metrics["bertscore_recall"] = bert_scores["recall"][0] if bert_scores.get("recall") else 0.0
+                auto_metrics["bertscore_f1"] = bert_scores["f1"][0] if bert_scores.get("f1") else 0.0
+            except Exception:
+                auto_metrics["bertscore_precision"] = 0.0
+                auto_metrics["bertscore_recall"] = 0.0
+                auto_metrics["bertscore_f1"] = 0.0
+
+            info["auto_metrics"] = auto_metrics
+
         return normalized
 
     judge_rubric.add_reward_func(judge_rubric_reward, weight=1.0)
diff --git a/environments/aci_bench/pyproject.toml b/environments/aci_bench/pyproject.toml
index c97e0579..5286bea8 100644
--- a/environments/aci_bench/pyproject.toml
+++ b/environments/aci_bench/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ requires-python = ">=3.11"
 dependencies = [
     "verifiers>=0.1.5.post0",
     "medarc_verifiers>=0.1.0",
+    "evaluate",
+    "bert_score",
+    "rouge_score",
+    "sacrebleu",
 ]
 
 [tool.prime.environment]