The maintainer settled the conflict the group 2 review escalated: a detector
configuration has no skills set. The skill router belongs to the tool's earlier
shape, and a family's prompt, checklist, tools and counterexamples already carry
what a round evolves.
The README described the project as an editor-agent harness whose skills steer
it, and pointed users at the maintainer's spec directory. The tool is a CLI now
and the agent integrations are optional, so the opening says that, the skills
section describes what it actually is, and the spec pointer is gone from the
user-facing text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
The maintainer settled both items the group 1 review escalated.
The family that covers server-side request forgery is named untrusted
destination and also covers open redirect, because both are untrusted input
choosing where a request goes and the corpus carries 34 open-redirect rows that
would otherwise be unclassifiable. The requirement, the brief and the design
example now say so, and the approval note records the amendment.
The shipped taxonomy is flat, so no answer can earn hierarchical partial credit.
Rather than leave that as prose, two new acceptance criteria require every
agreement figure and every family figure to say it, and both report types now
carry the flag, computed from the taxonomy rather than asserted. A taxonomy that
later declares a parent flips it without any other change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Task 2.4. Per family, and per slice when asked: outcome counts, recall, silence,
Youden, a directional-bias index and recall at a fixed false-positive ceiling.
Rows that cannot be scored are listed by reason and leave every denominator, and
a family with nothing scorable reports no rate rather than a perfect one.
Two numbers exist because Youden cannot tell apart a detector that flags
everything from one that says everything is safe: the directional-bias index
separates them, and recall at a fixed ceiling is forfeited entirely once a
family leaks more than the budget allows.
Change against a baseline is not a difference of means. Flips are counted per
pair in both directions and a two-sided exact sign test decides whether the
change is bigger than the noise, so one flip in ten reads as noise and six reads
as a real regression.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Foundation: taxonomy, DeepSeek endpoint, corpus fields, TypeScript grammar,
curated hunter tools. Core: classifier tiers and measurement, per-pair family
scoring and aggregation, detector configurations and runner, verifier registry
with oracle callback, canary templates and second judge, journal and archive.
Integration: one teacher rule, family scoring on the pairs hunter path, round
zero with per-model noise floors, scan-path tags and manifest block, proposers,
acceptance and revert, round orchestration, publish, subcommands. Corpus
repairs and validation last. Both sanity reviews' findings recorded in the
plan; K-run evaluation honors requirement 3.5 at every stage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
A learning package layered families -> classify -> scoring -> split ->
detectors and verifiers -> rounds -> publish, composing the existing seams:
the tool hunter gains prompt, context and tool parameters; the hunter path of
the pair scorer takes an injected family matcher so pairs never imports
learning; every learning path selects teachers through one train-only rule;
the regress verdict takes an optional canary oracle; the chat endpoint resolves
DeepSeek before OpenRouter with thinking disabled and reasoning replayed, while
embeddings keep their own endpoint; HarnessX proposes behind the seam with a
scripted proposer for offline runs. Fifty-nine acceptance criteria traced;
boundary sections, file structure plan and migration phases populated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Scope: catch the ten taxonomy families reliably on real-world and generated
application code, including forgotten authorization checks; not browser
engines, interpreters or memory-safety fuzzing. Decisions: verifier-aligned
families, a measured per-family noise floor as the regression budget, a cheap
model on an independent chat endpoint with embeddings elsewhere, canary-oracle
verifiers for the four most dangerous families first, the obligations lever
folded into the access-control family's first round, web families before the
C slice. Eleven requirements in EARS form; awaiting approval.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
AIxCC cyber reasoning systems, self-improving harness methods (GEPA, DGM,
Self-Harness, SkillOpt, AHE), vulnerability-dataset pitfalls and CWE taxonomies,
and routing/regression-control literature. The design changes they force:
coarse verifier-aligned families instead of fine CWE, multi-label routing with
an unknown class, pair-wise outcomes with a directional-bias index, K-run
reliable-change tests, a per-class seed-noise floor as the regression budget,
a no-regression acceptance rule with ties rejected, structural edits over prose
edits, a proposer blind to the holdout, and verifier code and gold labels
outside every editable surface.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Measured 2026-09-06 on the vibe-py holdout: the existing tool hunter, with no
learning, scores 12/14 pair-correct (Youden +0.857, no leaks) once detection
and silence are keyed on the labeled class and function and the byte-identical
twins are excluded; the overlay scores 5/14 on the same rows. The published
hunter number (0/17, Youden -0.588) was a scoring artifact: the scorer wanted
the literal CWE id in the finding text and the prompt never asked for it.
The brief proposes an auto-classifier as the routing key, one evolved hunter
configuration per class, a class-aware scorer with unscorable denominators,
the split enforced by construction, and the HarnessX evolve loop with per-class
attribution as the round primitive. Raw measurements are committed under
reports/measurements.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Six task groups in the design's migration order: closed facts and
obligation shapes; operations, siblings, declared policy, dominance
protocol and the checker; MAP wiring, reports, ranking and hunter intent;
corpus harvest mode, labels, leave-one-out and relabeling; the
obligations lever; validation. All 44 acceptance criteria covered; no
task waits on the unimplemented upstream specs (path-aware evaluation
enters through the Dominance protocol and an optional PathRecord input).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Requirements approved by the maintainer in session. Design: closed
obligation facts (operations and dischargers), obligation shapes as a
second family in the mechanism store, sibling-set consistency and an
optional declared policy as the policy sources, a Dominance protocol
with an order-based default so the checker works function-local before
reachability and guard dominance land, findings at suspicion carrying
consistency_violation / declared_policy_violation / function_local as
data, reports, manifest and ranking fields, handler_context harvest
mode, leave-one-out per obligation kind, and an obligations lever with
pending policy clauses under the existing gate. All 44 acceptance
criteria traced.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Absence bugs as obligations rather than flows: obligated operations and
discharger kinds as closed facts, obligation shapes learned from trusted
pairs, the application's policy recovered from sibling-handler
consistency and an optional declared policy file, path-aware evaluation
with a function-local degraded mode, honest rungs below proof, an
`obligations` improve lever under the holdout gate. Depends on
reachability-flow-model and guard-dominance-regime; the roadmap marks
reachability as the critical path for two consumers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
- tasks.md: all tasks checked; rounds 1-6 recorded with RED evidence,
measured leave-one-out and admission numbers, and the recorded design
deviations.
- spec.json: completed 2026-09-05.
- roadmap: corpus-seeded-mechanisms marked completed; the loop is closed
end to end (export -> improve admits under the holdout clause -> scan
searches -> reports name the mechanism).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Review rounds 3-5 remediations (Req 5, 7).
- ousast improve resolves candidates from the target's calibration dir,
then the working directory's (where `mechanisms export` writes), and
admits into <target>/.openultrasast/calibration/mechanisms.jsonl,
where a scan of that target reads; --mechanism-candidates,
--mechanism-store, --no-mechanisms; --dry-run redirects the store to
scratch; accepted rounds print admit/retract <id>.
- run_improvement threads the store paths; RoundOutcome carries the
mechanism edits; reverted mechanism keys are blocked outright; a
no-gain admission is rejected as mechanism_no_gain; a retraction may
name an admitted record that left the candidate set.
- leave-one-out forwards variant-search degradations and pins the
containment and label rules; mechanisms export defaults to the
candidates file so it never re-admits a tombstone.
- design §Lever rewritten to the implemented gate; README and docs show
export -> improve -> scan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Task 4.2 (Req 5.3, 5.4, 5.5).
- propose_mechanism_edits: retract admitted records that leak on a
holdout fixed side; admit a candidate only when a trial store holding
it alone recovers a currently missed holdout pair without leaking.
- run_round(mechanism_candidates=, mechanism_store=): validates, applies
after the rule gate passed, re-scores the holdout pairs per profile with
variant search (evaluate_mechanism_profiles), and rejects with a
byte-for-byte revert on mechanism_leak, profile_regression or
mechanism_no_gain; the journal records each mechanism edit with its
pair provenance and the metrics before and after.
- The rule gate and its per-profile clause are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
- variant_search.search_tree skips a malformed store row with a
variants_store_row_invalid degradation instead of aborting the scan;
a hit on a demoted or flowless overlay record is never merged (test).
- seed.pair_lessons is the one shape derivation shared by the exporter
and leave-one-out; labels pass line and sink together; pairs without a
labeled function are reported as no_labeled_function.
- config parses [variants].max_mechanisms with the shared int helper.
- regress.candidate.hotspot_from_finding is the one zero-score hotspot
helper for forced inventory and variant findings.
- design synced (SearchResult, hits_to_findings summaries, candidate.py).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Task 2.3 (Req 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 6.2).
- [variants] enabled / max_mechanisms config; MAP runs variant search
after the overlay in standard and deep scans only, appends the variant
findings, rewrites overlay.json with merged ids, and the manifest
records mechanisms_searched, files_searched, findings and
merged_into_overlay.
- REGRESS: variant findings join the candidate list after the promotions
as zero-score hotspots, under the existing safety check and cap.
- Spec notes for group 2 and the design synced (variant_search.py,
seed.py, derive_shape signature).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Task 1.1 (Req 2.1-2.4). Spec approved by the maintainer in session.
- semantic/variants.py: Shape (language, sink trailing name, arity,
source positions and kinds, closed guard kind, mechanism id) with a
stable text-free key; derive_shape finds the labeled sink call site in
the vulnerable FileIR, traces argument identifiers through binds to a
fact source, a parameter or a container read, and classifies the guard
the fixed side added from the labeled function's added statements
against a closed set (none when unknown). No path, line or literal
enters a shape; a constant-only call teaches nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
- tasks.md: round-12 verdict and the decision to assemble the redaction
test's example key at runtime and rewrite the unpushed series so no
commit carries a contiguous key literal; two dated notes marked as
superseded by tasks 8.1 and 8.4.
- roadmap: the folded inventory-vs-overlay Youden item is checked.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
- tasks.md: all tasks checked; the two escalations are closed (5.1 by the
Req 10 pointer rows, 5.3 by the Req 9 review tiers); round 11 recorded
with the carry-forwards for corpus-seeded-mechanisms and
overlay-ir-completeness.
- roadmap: measured state after tiers and pointer slices (vibe-py 115,
agent-vfc 59, gates byte-identical to pre-spec); pair-corpus-honesty
marked completed.
- spec.json: completed 2026-09-05 after eleven review rounds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Task 8.4 (Req 10.6, 5.1).
- harvest.merge_recipes appends recipes by name and never rewrites
existing rows.
- vibe-py/build_recipes.py --pointers: the 40 LLM-generated repositories
without a license become vendored = false rows (80 pairs, agent,
seeded) appended to recipes.toml; unlicensed human repos stay skipped.
- agent-vfc/build_recipes.py --from ... --pointers [--cache]: unlicensed
agent-authored fixes become title-tier pointer rows whose function
label is derived from the cached excerpt (30 added from a fresh
662-candidate search); TOML booleans rendered correctly.
- catalogs regenerated: vibe-py 115 rows (35 vendored + 80 pointer),
agent-vfc 59 (29 + 30); no excerpt is vendored for any pointer row.
- `pairs --slice vibe-py --pointers` scores both provenances (human 35,
agent 80); the default run skips 80 pairs with pointer_pair_skipped;
suite and gates unchanged. README/docs name the nightly command.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Task 8.3 (Req 10.1-10.5).
- pairs.py: catalog rows with vendored = false carry their harvest recipe
and no excerpts; evaluate_catalog harvests them into
OPENULTRASAST_PAIR_CACHE (default ~/.cache/openultrasast/pairs) only
when `pairs --pointers` or OPENULTRASAST_PAIRS_NETWORK=1 allows the
network, otherwise records pointer_pair_skipped (a failed fetch is
pointer_pair_fetch_failed with detail); a warm cache never scores
without the switch. select_vendored for tests and gates.
- harvest.py: materialize_pointer harvests into the cache without the
license requirement (nothing is redistributed); redaction applies.
- catalog_gen.py: emits pointer rows with recipe fields; training
manifests skip them.
- pair_gate and improve/evolve.evaluate_profiles score vendored pairs
only; cli `pairs --pointers`; .gitignore covers the cache path.
- tests: loader, skip/degradation, cache hit, fetch failure, warm cache
with network off, profile gate exclusion, harvest and generator paths;
conftest keeps every test offline whatever the shell exports.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Two engine specs drafted after the pair-corpus baseline, awaiting owner
approval before implementation:
- corpus-seeded-mechanisms: structural shapes derived from trusted pairs,
export, variant search merged with overlay flows, leave-one-out
measurement, and a closed `mechanisms` lever for the improve loop.
- reachability-flow-model: call graph over FunctionIR, reachability from
entry points to sinks, hunter client preferring HarnessX (task 4.1b).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
Harvest 176 isolated vuln-vs-fix functions (109 CVEs, 352 training rows)
into benchmarks/pairs/vfc with provenance and a JSONL training manifest.
Score the slice as an honesty dashboard (ousast pairs --slice vfc);
keep the pair gate on the local fixtures only.
Add openultrasast[semantic] with official grammar wheels and one CST walker
into FileIR. quick stays extra-free. Host CLI is not overlay-ready. Default CI
stays extra-free; a semantic job runs pytest -m semantic.
Regex inventory stays the proposer. MAP attaches promote/demote/unadjudicated/coverage
from intra-file taint (tree-sitter when a grammar parses, Python ast as last resort).
Deep sandboxes promotions only, ordered by the existing heuristic ranker plus optional
OpenRouter mechanism recall. The SAST pair slice scores overlay outcomes; the stage-1
detection gate and local pair gate stay inventory-only.
