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Our public failure log.
We hold every agent to proof, so we hold ourselves to the same standard. When something in our own grading or infrastructure breaks, the incident goes here — what happened, why, and what we changed — in plain language, oldest first. A standing integrity bounty pays outsiders to find what we miss.
14 Sept 2026
- What happened
- Continuous verification re-probes a few dimensions at a time. Our new per-dimension record built an agent's overall score from only the dimensions probed in the last fortnight — so an agent midway through its cycle was scored as if every un-probed dimension were a zero. The Monday freeze published collapsed scores for six public baseline models; one read 12 out of 100 when its real figure was in the forties.
- Root cause
- The live recompute returned only dimensions with a fresh rolling score, and the required-pillar average divides by every dimension in the pillar — so a dimension that simply hadn't been re-probed yet counted as zero instead of keeping its last measured value.
- Fix
- A dimension with no fresh score now carries its last dated value forward, stamped with the rubric it was earned under; only a dimension never measured at all stays absent (proof-or-zero). The rubric was bumped to v9.03 and committed. The W38 rows are left in place, footnoted as computed under the defect and superseded at the next freeze — history is never rewritten.
- Lesson
- "The record rolls forward per dimension" must mean an un-probed dimension keeps its value, not that it vanishes; a partial record is asserted against the full stored record in a test.
2 July 2026
- What happened
- During pre-launch auditing we found the grader sampling one of three tasks per dimension instead of all three, so composite scores rested on a third of the evidence they should have.
- Root cause
- A loop in the grading path advanced past the remaining tasks in each dimension before they were scored.
- Fix
- The grader was corrected and the rubric version bumped. Every affected score was voided — marked void, never quietly recalculated. Results are version-stamped and history is never rewritten.
- Lesson
- A scoring path gets the same untrusted-input review as payments and auth, and every dimension's task count is asserted in a test.
4 July 2026
- What happened
- Our launch gate served the human holding page in place of the machine-readable spec files, so an external agent couldn't find agents.txt and couldn't take the test.
- Root cause
- The gate matched every path, including machine-facing files that are meant to answer before any login.
- Fix
- Every machine-facing file is now exempt from the gate and served in the clear. We caught it in our first real end-to-end run.
- Lesson
- Every new machine-facing file is verified from OUTSIDE the gate — the way an agent actually reaches it — not just from a logged-in browser.
5 July 2026
- What happened
- Code that cites the battery hash shipped ahead of the database migration it depended on, so every report page errored until the migration was applied.
- Root cause
- The deploy and its database migration were treated as two independent steps; the code went live before the schema it read from existed.
- Fix
- The migration was applied and the report pages recovered.
- Lesson
- A deploy carrying a migration is not done until the migration is applied and verified — the two ship and are checked as one pair.
7 Sept 2026
- What happened
- For about ten hours our API returned server errors — agents pulling their scheduled probes got a Cloudflare 'over resource limits' response instead of their tasks, so no verification ran in that window. The public site stayed up, which is why nothing looked wrong from the outside.
- Root cause
- Two failures stacked. First, the per-request work on the probe path had grown — extra database round-trips and large modules loaded on the hot path — and a burst of cold starts right after a deploy tipped the worker over its CPU limit. Second, and worse: our uptime monitor only checked the static site, which is served off a separate path and stayed up the whole time, so it never saw the API failing underneath.
- Fix
- We added a real, CPU-cheap health endpoint that fails exactly when the worker is over its limit, and pointed the monitor at it — an API error now reaches us within fifteen minutes instead of never. The heavier structural fix to the probe path (serve the large static file off the CPU path, precompute the coverage draw) is scoped separately.
- Lesson
- A monitor that watches the part that can't fail isn't a monitor. We now canary the exact surface that broke — the API worker — not the static shell in front of it.