measure(independent): known-answer check of the verifier -- 11/15 sites, unstable verdicts, escalation costs more

Declared vulnerable sites: 11 of the 15 that were candidates are confirmed (8 at 3
steps, 3 more at 6). Missed: winml (a CORS config; the reachability question does
not fit), FUXA, Budibase, Froxlor.

Restart-based escalation is strictly worse than a straight 6-step budget: 88% of
pgAdmin candidates used every step, so they paid 3 + 6 ($0.0201 per candidate vs
$0.0139 baseline). Defaults are now 6 steps, no escalation. The cache order change
did not lower the per-call cost ($0.002): the conversation prefix was already
cached; 56% of prompt tokens are served from cache.

The larger finding: on 180 pgAdmin candidates verified twice, 15 and 13 were
flagged with only 2 in common. Verdicts on borderline candidates flip run to run,
while the declared sites were found consistently. Precision needs agreement
across runs or a second judgement, not a single pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EmM1j46qgKMh3zqD1QMwEo
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Marius Ciepluch
2026-09-29 10:10:33 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5.1
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@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ def main() -> int:
parser.add_argument("--population", type=Path, default=HERE / "population-v2.toml")
parser.add_argument("--only", default="")
parser.add_argument("--model", default=DEFAULT_DETECTOR_MODEL)
parser.add_argument("--max-steps", type=int, default=3)
parser.add_argument("--escalate-steps", type=int, default=6, help="rerun a hunt that used every step without a verdict; 0 disables")
parser.add_argument("--max-steps", type=int, default=6)
parser.add_argument("--escalate-steps", type=int, default=0, help="rerun a hunt that used every step without a verdict; 0 disables (measured: 88% escalate, +45% cost)")
parser.add_argument("--workers", type=int, default=4)
parser.add_argument("--budget-usd", type=float, default=40.0)
parser.add_argument("--fixed", action="store_true", help="recheck detected sites at the fixed pin")