diff --git a/docs/features/reward_system.md b/docs/features/reward_system.md
index 15f0654..49e2fc1 100644
--- a/docs/features/reward_system.md
+++ b/docs/features/reward_system.md
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ We put reward calculation into the agent side instead of trainer side and use a
 2. Reward calculation can be designed to be asynchronous for efficiency.
 
 ### Definition
-Similar to tools, we can decide whether to use environments in the reward definition. The return should either be a value, or a dictionary containing `reward` as one of keys. We can use decorator `@tool` or inherit from the `BaseReward` class.
+Similar to tools, we can decide whether to use environments in the reward definition. The return should either be a value, or a dictionary containing `reward` as one of keys. We can use decorator `@tool` or inherit from the `BaseReward` class. Any additional keys in the returned dict (e.g. `em`, `f1`, `fmt`) are passed through and documented in training and validation.
+
+
 
 ```python
 @reward(name="qa_f1_reward")
@@ -105,3 +107,9 @@ def summary_reward(final_response, length_penalty, max_length):
     else:
         return 1.0
 ```
+
+## Return Values
+
+Each a `float` value or a dictionary containing `reward` as key should be returned. If the return value is `float`, it is directly used as rewards. If a dictionary is returned, the `reward` is used as rewards. While other keys are still documented.
+
+Extra keys (besides `reward`) are logged as `reward_extra/{key}/mean`, `reward_extra/{key}/max`, `reward_extra/{key}/min` in the metrics produced by `compute_data_metrics` (`verl/verl/trainer/ppo/metric_utils.py`).
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diff --git a/src/agentfly/rewards/qa_reward.py b/src/agentfly/rewards/qa_reward.py
index 19dbab8..5a8618d 100644
--- a/src/agentfly/rewards/qa_reward.py
+++ b/src/agentfly/rewards/qa_reward.py
@@ -149,6 +149,78 @@ def qa_f1_reward_tool(final_response: str, answer: str, trajectory: List[str]) -
     return rewards_dict
 
 
+def _extract_answer_tag(text: str) -> str:
+    """Extract content between <answer> and </answer>, or return original if not present."""
+    match = re.search(r"<answer>\s*(.*?)\s*</answer>", text, re.DOTALL)
+    return match.group(1).strip() if match else text
+
+
+def _format_ok(final_response: str, trajectory: List) -> tuple:
+    """True if final_response has <answer>...</answer>, trajectory has tool calling, and all assistant turns except the last have <think>/</think>."""
+    has_answer_tags = "<answer>" in final_response and "</answer>" in final_response
+    if not has_answer_tags or not trajectory:
+        return False, False, False
+    has_tool_calling = any(
+        isinstance(msg, dict) and msg.get("role") == "tool" for msg in trajectory
+    )
+    # Collect assistant turns; only previous (non-last) ones must have think
+    assistant_turns = []
+    for msg in trajectory:
+        if isinstance(msg, dict):
+            if msg.get("role") == "assistant":
+                content = msg.get("content") or msg.get("text") or ""
+                assistant_turns.append(content)
+            elif msg.get("role") == "tool":
+                pass  # already counted has_tool_calling
+        else:
+            assistant_turns.append(str(msg))
+    if not assistant_turns:
+        previous_have_think = True
+    else:
+        previous = assistant_turns[:-1]  # all but last
+        previous_have_think = all(
+            "<think>" in c and "</think>" in c for c in previous if c
+        )
+    fmt = has_answer_tags and has_tool_calling and previous_have_think
+    return fmt, previous_have_think, has_tool_calling
+
+
+@reward(name="qa_em_format_reward")
+def qa_em_format_reward(final_response: str, golden_answers: List[str], trajectory: List[str]) -> float:
+    """
+    Calculate the reward for the agent's response based on the EM score.
+
+    - 1.0 if the format is correct, and the em is true
+    - 0.1 if the format is correct, but the em is wrong
+    - 0.0 if the format is incorrect
+    """
+    predicted = _extract_answer_tag(final_response)
+    if not golden_answers:
+        max_em, max_f1 = 0.0, 0.0
+    else:
+        max_em = max(em_score(predicted, g) for g in golden_answers)
+        max_f1 = max(f1_score(predicted, g)[0] for g in golden_answers)
+    fmt, previous_have_think, has_tool_calling = _format_ok(final_response, trajectory)
+
+    reward = 0.0
+    if fmt and max_em:
+        reward = 1.0
+    elif fmt and not max_em:
+        reward = 0.1
+    elif max_em and not fmt:
+        reward = 0.0
+
+    return {
+        "reward": reward,
+        "em": max_em,
+        "f1": max_f1,
+        "fmt": 1.0 if fmt else 0.0,
+        "fmt_think": 1.0 if previous_have_think else 0.0,
+        "fmt_tool": 1.0 if has_tool_calling else 0.0,
+    }
+
+
+
 @reward(name="ok_vqa_reward")
 def ok_vqa_reward(
     final_response: str, answers: List[str], trajectory: List[str]
diff --git a/src/agentfly/tools/src/search/async_dense_retriever.py b/src/agentfly/tools/src/search/async_dense_retriever.py
index 8dd5680..d30bf4e 100644
--- a/src/agentfly/tools/src/search/async_dense_retriever.py
+++ b/src/agentfly/tools/src/search/async_dense_retriever.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 from collections import deque
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 from functools import lru_cache
-
+from .... import AGENT_CACHE_DIR
 import datasets
 import numpy as np
 import torch
diff --git a/verl b/verl
index a6b57f2..7da6e92 160000
--- a/verl
+++ b/verl
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit a6b57f2659a44d0ccba543dcabbc6bd5425b3689
+Subproject commit 7da6e9249de7b455ad48f5b4f22148686ef1c29b