Group 3 was unimplemented, so there was no way to turn the draft into a
frozen pool. Add:
- bisect_guard.py: stages the cache draft and bisects it against the
reserved-repository guard, run as a black box
(pytest -k referenced, stdout/stderr discarded, exit code only; an exit
other than 0/1 aborts as an instrument failure). Drops guard-tripping
candidates and reports the dropped COUNT only -- never a name or URL.
Guard runner is injectable for offline tests.
- freeze.py: writes canonical pool-p1.toml (+ private counterpart,
reusing draft's public/private split and private_digest) and
freeze-p1.json (used-set digest, per-source counts, guard result,
dropped count, label-check counts, freeze digest = sha256 of the
canonical public manifest). A matching retry is a no-op; any changed
frozen artifact requires a new pool id (never an overwrite).
- protocol-p1.md: the frozen scoring/statistics protocol from design
sections 3 and 4.
Offline only; the guard subprocess is the sole subprocess and is mocked
in tests. 42 new tests pass (incl the group-1.3 guard digest check on a
fixture pool); neighbouring unseen suites green; ruff clean. New files
only -- does not touch the journal-pinned draft/extract modules, so a
running draw is unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Extraction is CPU-bound Python (git-output parsing, HUNK regex,
ast.parse of hundreds of source files per repo). A ThreadPoolExecutor
cannot parallelize it: live profiling showed one thread pegging a core
at 99.7% while three cores sat idle and the others waited on the GIL, so
six "workers" barely beat serial (~0.25 entries/min).
Switch ordered_extractions to a ProcessPoolExecutor with a fork context
(copy-on-write memory; lets the existing in-memory test fakes cross into
children without pickling). Effective workers are clamped to the core
count. The parent still owns the journal, REST (finish_license), decide,
counters, the fork-network dedup, strict seed-order acceptance, the
systemic guard, and the graceful drain. Children run extract_repository
with github=None on picklable args and return their own count deltas
(threads had shared a Counter; processes return counts in the result).
A broken pool is replaced; a collateral worker_crash is a skip outside
the guard, a task-specific extract_worker_failure counts toward it.
Determinism is unchanged and tested with REAL processes: workers=6 ==
workers=1 byte-identical (fork collisions, out-of-order completion,
resume). 208 unseen tests pass, ruff clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Serial extraction at ~147s/repo made a 300-repo pool take days, and
~626 lazy per-file blob faults per clone pushed slow repos past the
240s deadline (a draw reached 21 entries from 347 attempts, 160 of them
extraction_timeout). Both fixed.
Parallel: a bounded ThreadPoolExecutor (--extract-workers, default 6)
runs clones concurrently, each into its own clone with a private counter.
The main thread alone owns the journal, REST (license via finish_license),
counters, and acceptance. Entries are accepted in STRICT SEED ORDER with
the fork-network dedup applied at acceptance, so the pool is byte-
identical to the serial draw (tested: workers=6 == workers=1, including
fork collisions, out-of-order completion, and resume). The systemic guard
and resilient skips are unchanged; a graceful stop drains started work to
the journal for resume.
Batched blobs: repository_changes fetches the fixes together and
Git.materialize fetches all missing blobs for the read revisions in one
`fetch --no-filter --stdin` (rev-list --missing=print), instead of per-
file promisor faults. Content is byte-identical (tested; >=12 fetches
collapsed to 1).
202 unseen tests pass, ruff clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
The resilient draw only covered extraction. A per-candidate transport
failure in the decide/eligibility phase -- get_commit on an unresolvable
fix ref raising ValueError("http_failure") (observed: ljharb/shell-quote
commit 1518179) -- still aborted the whole draft, because decide only
caught source.Rejected and eligibility.RepositoryNotFound.
decide now catches that http_failure and returns a "decide_http_failure"
skip, and the run loop feeds decide + extract per-candidate instrument
failures into one systemic guard (25 with zero successes, or >200), so a
single bad commit lookup skips while a broken instrument (e.g. a network
outage failing every lookup) still aborts loudly.
Full unseen draft suite passes (48), ruff clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Individual repositories in the advisory population raise per-candidate
extract.InstrumentFailure during extraction (git_exit_128 on an
unfetchable fix commit, clone_size_cap, and others), and each one
aborted the whole 300-repo draft. The draw is healthy; one bad repo
should not reset it.
extract_repository now also catches extract.InstrumentFailure and
OSError and records them as "extract_<reason>" rejections, so the draw
skips that repo and continues (the reason, e.g. extract_git_exit_128,
shows in the rejections counter). ExtractionTimeout keeps its existing
extraction_timeout skip; any other exception still propagates as a real
abort, so genuine code bugs are not masked.
A systemic guard preserves the instrument rule: run() raises
InstrumentFailure("systemic_extraction_failure") if 25 extraction
attempts fail with zero successes (e.g. git missing, auth broken) or if
extraction failures exceed 200 overall. A handful of bad repos with many
successes never trips it.
190 unseen tests pass, ruff clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
A pathologically slow repository (observed: tensorzero, 183s to clone,
then `git blame -C` past the 180s command limit) raised
subprocess.TimeoutExpired, which Git.run mislabeled as a fatal
InstrumentFailure("git_launch_failed") and aborted the whole 300-repo
draft. The same slowness stalled throughput (a 54-minute no-progress
gap).
Give each clone a per-repo wall-clock budget (--extract-deadline,
default 240s, plumbed Clones -> Git, counting the initial clone). A
timeout -- a command exceeding the remaining budget, or the budget
elapsing -- raises ExtractionTimeout(Rejected), which the existing
rejection handler turns into an "extraction_timeout" skip so the draw
moves to the next candidate. Genuine launch failures and non-zero git
exits stay fatal; timeouts and launch failures are now distinct. The
deadline is recorded on the report only, not the journal inputs, so
changing it does not refuse resume.
181 unseen tests pass, ruff clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
disk_bytes() summed the clone tree with rglob + stat() as a size cap
before every git command. On a blob:none clone, `git show` triggers an
on-demand blob fetch that writes and deletes transient
.git/objects/pack/*.rev files, so a path rglob had just listed could be
gone by the stat() call -> FileNotFoundError aborted the whole draft as
an instrument_failure. The race can hit any candidate, so it was a
non-deterministic draft-killer (observed extracting a real npm repo).
Skip a file that raises OSError mid-walk; the size cap is unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
The GitHub /advisories endpoint ignores the `page` query parameter: it
paginates with the Link header's rel="next" cursor. The page-number
pager re-fetched the same first 100 rows forever and never terminated,
so enumeration never completed and no draft converged (a run fetched
5137 "pip pages" holding only 100 unique advisories).
Surface the successful response headers from JSONTransport, and walk the
rel="next" cursor per ecosystem until it is absent. The ecosystem /
published>=2019 / bare-number cwes filters are preserved on the first
request. Journal keys stay ecosystem:n (now cursor-walk positions) with
the saved next URL for resume; journal_version 4 refuses older journals.
Live smoke via the production pager: 300 unique advisories pulled in 3
API calls, advancing past the first page. Offline: 170 unseen tests
pass, ruff clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
enumerate_advisories paged the entire global GitHub reviewed-advisory
database (every ecosystem, every year, every CWE) before extraction, so
a 300-repo draft never converged -- a live run reached 21,962 advisories
in 4.5h with extraction never started.
Push the existing candidate() rejections into the query: page per
ecosystem, published>=2019-01-01, and cwes restricted to the seven
families. The cwes filter uses bare CWE numbers (89), which is what the
GitHub advisories API matches -- "CWE-89" silently returns zero. The
whole cwes filter is omitted if the taxonomy ever holds a non-exact
token, so a selectable advisory is never dropped. Journal version 3
(ecosystem:page keys) refuses incompatible older journals.
Live page-1 smoke (pip, npm): 100/100 rows carry a family CWE, none
published before 2019. Offline: 166 unseen tests pass, ruff clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
A live G0 sourcing run failed on both: a transient connection/decode error aborted
the whole enumeration (the bare except raised http_failure on the first blip), and
the advisory journal stored full raw advisory JSON and reached 1.77 GB on a near-full
host. Fix: the JSON transport now retries URLError/timeout/ConnectionError/IncompleteRead/
JSONDecodeError through the same attempt-4 backoff as HTTP 5xx/429 (fatal only after the
cap or on a genuinely non-retryable error); enumerate_advisories journals only the fields
resolution/extraction consume via source.reduce_advisory (ghsa id, published/withdrawn,
type, CWE ids, package ecosystem/name for OSV, fix-commit links), with journal_version
bumped to 2 so an old full-format journal is rejected and resume-skip stays intact.
Offline: test_unseen_source/draft/extract 133 passed; ruff + format clean; mypy unchanged
(pre-existing verify.py lambda only).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Feed the milestone back into the spec and steering. HANDOFF: the open "first demonstrated"
question is RESOLVED -- xiaomusic (path, prefix-check-bypass) demonstrated on the vulnerable
side (3/3 affected, 0/3 safe) and the blind fixed-side search produced 0 false proofs; pair
total $1.22. Records the six-fix chain that enabled it (parity, verify-time-only, fair-share
budget, served-root guidance, oracle prefix-bypass coverage, control-signal feedback) plus the
keystone. tasks.md: implementation note; pilot (6.2/6.3) in progress. spec.json: pilot status.
safety-net steering: proof-based BLOCK mechanism reached first execution-backed demonstration
(feasibility-pilot scope, not release readiness; pilot exit + 73-negative qualification open;
classifier stays triage). search README: status note. Payload-free; demos/boards stay gitignored.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
search-with-proof produced its first demonstrated finding on a real CVE fix-pair end to
end on kube-ax: vuln observes, fixed does not, 0 false proofs, $0.37, 55 calls. Enabled
by the full session fix chain (parity, verify-time-only, fair-share budget, served-root
guidance, oracle prefix-bypass coverage, control-signal feedback). Payload-free record.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Non-blocking advisory hint when the control shows the app didn't serve ${served_root},
so the agent self-corrects its served-directory wiring. Host-side; verdicts unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
When a path demo does not serve ${served_root}, the keystone control fails
(SideRecord.control_observed False) but the search only reported a generic
inconclusive, so the agent kept making the same wiring mistake. The pilot now
surfaces the affected side's control_observed in the verify result, and the
coordinator appends one advisory, deduplicated "served-root" hint (visible in the
board snapshot the agent reads) telling it to set the served-directory config to the
${served_root} placeholder. Advisory only: verdicts, _end, the oracle, the differential
and the demo validator are unchanged; the hint fires only when control_observed is False.
Tests: coordinator + pilot_run suites 78 passed; ruff clean; mypy unchanged (pre-existing
benchmarks errors only). Host-side change, no image rebuild.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Oracle broadening works in the agent: demo now targets the prefix-sibling vector. Still
inconclusive (0 false proofs, $0.29): the agent set the served-dir env var to its own
value, not ${served_root}, so the sibling canary was outside the served tree. Served-root
wiring is nondeterministic (a prior run wired it). Last-mile agent-reliability gap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Served-root guidance validated: authored demo now references ${served_root}. Still
inconclusive (0 false proofs); agent spread budget across vectors and hit run_ceiling
(164 calls, $1.47/$1.50) without converging, and the committed traversal did not
differential. Remaining = per-app exploit-authoring + convergence (the layer the $0 local
glance proof did by hand).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Fair-share budget validated: the Python agent completed the full loop and verified 18
demos within $0.74 of $1.50 (0 verify tasks before). Still inconclusive, 0 false proofs.
Root cause of no-differential: the authored demo never references ${served_root}; the
agent pointed the app's served dir at its own value, so the observable was outside the
served tree. Next: guidance to wire the served dir to ${served_root} for the path oracle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Each pilot search gets a fair share of --ceiling-usd with settled rollover, so one
expensive search can no longer starve the others; total stays within the ceiling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
--ceiling-usd was one shared SpendBudget passed to every search, so an expensive
search drained the pool and starved later ones: in the last 2-pair/$2 run the first
search spent $1.60 and the second hit the ceiling at $0.34 after finishing its analysis.
The driver now allocates a dynamic fair share per search (remaining_ceiling /
searches_not_yet_started), rolls unused settled budget forward, caps each search at its
share, and keeps total settled <= ceiling. A search now gets room to author and verify
after it finds the path.
Driver-only change (benchmarks/search/pilot_run.py) plus tests. tests/test_search_pilot_run.py
39 passed; ruff clean; mypy unchanged (pre-existing benchmarks errors only).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
2 path searches (ts/py), vulnerable, cluster, $1.95 of $2. The trap fix is validated
behaviourally: ts pair 9 now authors a demo (verify_tasks 0->2; fails could_not_build on
entrypoint), py pair 13 drops 118->36 calls and its board shows a complete route-to-sink
+ entrypoint trace but hits the per-run budget ceiling before authoring/verifying. Still
0 demonstrations, 0 false proofs. Payload-free aggregate; raw stays gitignored. Next
levers: per-run budget/step allocation for demo-write+verify after analysis; demo
entrypoint/build (start.path) for compiled/served apps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
3 path searches (php/ts/py), vulnerable side, cluster verify lane, $2.95 of $3.
Payload-free aggregate; raw boards/demos stay gitignored. Finding: the parity fix
produced directed, target-aware search (the agent reasons about reaching the named
observable and inspects the app's serving guard), but no demonstration landed -- all
three spent their per-pair allowance before a differential, and two wrote zero verify
demos (budget consumed in reason/explore). Next levers: allowance/budget split toward
demo-writing, entrypoint discovery for php, and the explore-vs-verify path layout the
py agent flagged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Outcome-only record of the first end-to-end demonstrated verdict and the two
masking defects (regenerated npm lock pinning an incompatible mime; agent demo
targeting the wrong file). Payloads stay in the gitignored private area.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Replays a stored demo through the executor task and the verifier lane for one
side or both, with per-phase timings, so verifier changes are checked on the
exact image before any paid search.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Archives are gzipped and uploaded in parts of at most 90 MB with per-part
digests (edge request limit); pip installs ignore the task venv so transitive
dependencies land in products; the verifier sets NODE_PATH and the Java
classpath from products when starting the app.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
HTTP start waits up to 90 s (CLI 30 s) with TCP then HTTP probing; app stdout
and stderr tails are recorded; tool-call turns get 4096 output tokens with one
retry on truncation; tasks get 40 steps with reminders.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Built projects spool to /workspace without package caches (cap 1 GiB, both
sides); a plain-text model reply is fed back once; mailbox PUT/GET retry for up
to 90 s with idempotent re-send by seq; executor tasks are deleted on every exit
path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
All five oracles demonstrated, gaming demos inconclusive, 38 s, ~500 MB RSS.
The probe dispatcher accepts a skipped isolation check in task-boundary mode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
The agent passes a manifest file or project directory; pip uses -r for
requirements files and the directory for pyproject/setup, npm ci/install runs in
the directory, composer/maven/gradle likewise. Build and verify failures carry
phase, exit code and a sanitised stderr tail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Demos declare their oracle within the family allowed set (injection: sql or
command; output_encoding: xss; untrusted_destination: ssrf; path: path);
builds and app starts use the search memory budget instead of the 256 MB tool
limit (npm died with SIGTRAP); malformed tool-call JSON is fed back once.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
budget_spent carries end_detail (spend, task_spend, reason_rounds, ...); a task
whose allowance cannot cover the next call finishes with its facts; per-task
metrics in pilot records; input reservation bytes/2 + 1024 per message (measured
3-4x over-reservation before).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
The operator keys per-host egress rules on the task-name prefix; engine passes and
replays had none. Names stay within 49 bytes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Zero running workers behind "no free workers available" now raises
ClusterUnavailable instead of waiting out the capacity deadline; CapacityDeadline
carries its message; cleanup failures no longer mask the original exception; the
pilot driver aborts the run on infrastructure failure before any model call.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
First live run: the reason step got ~190 tokens and returned {} -> silent
no_evidence. Now: a bootstrap intent reads the candidate and its entry point; the
reason prompt states the goal, family oracles, demo schema and must propose
intents when none are open; empty replies retry once then end as reason_refused;
failure records keep messages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
One side per run over selected pilot pairs: board, brain on the VM with the
project DeepSeek client, executor tasks on kube-ax, verification on the VM lane
(AX verify lane switchable). Hard run ceiling with reservation before every call,
per-search and step caps; fixed side never sees the vulnerable revision; records
carry digests only. Dry run with the stub model reaches demonstrated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Operator 2026-10-05: Substrate boots a ~1 s golden-snapshot actor per new task on the
other worker; retry apply after 2-5 s for the first minute, then 15-30 s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Reasons carry type plus a sanitised message tail; command failures carry phase,
exit code and bounded stderr. Scratch walk tolerates directories pip removes
mid-walk; writable /workspace/home and runtime paths. Capacity retries delete a
possibly created task before resubmitting. Docker smoke checks the image first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
20 development pairs, one per repository, 4 per language, 5 per family; identities
in a gitignored manifest, counts and digest committed. Executor smoke drives one
executor task end to end without a model and fails loudly on an unread clone.
kube-ax operator constraints as steering.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Demos are data the verifier executes (fixed build recipes, runtime+path start,
HTTP/CLI steps with captures; the canary is never referable). The agent loop with
the key never runs repository code: executor tasks without a key exchange commands
and results through presigned objects. AX capacity errors are back-pressure with at
most 2 tasks in flight; caches and builds under /workspace with a 2 GiB guard;
verifiers take one presigned archive per side. Launcher fix: private /dev in bwrap.
190 tests on the host; probe 5/5 demonstrated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Probe runs each oracle toy pair with a real demo and two gaming demos, records
image facts, RSS and disk, fails loudly if isolation is unavailable; dispatchable
as an AX task. Worker: reason step without tools, explore tool loop whose run tool
goes through the sandbox with a scrubbed env (model key absent), spend reserved
before each call. Host probe: 5/5 real demos demonstrated, 10/10 gaming demos
inconclusive. 89 tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Board as immutable versioned blobs (coordinator sole writer); budget reserve/settle
before model calls; per-task and run caps; coordinator loop over an injected
executor; batch.py accepts a fixed allow-list of search variables; XSS browser
oracle; ousast-search-task image (Python, Node/TypeScript, PHP, Java 17, sqlite,
bwrap, chromium) built by CI. 103 tests on the host.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The verifier, not the artefact, observes the effect: SQL, path, command and SSRF
oracles owned by the verifier (XSS needs a browser executor, else no_oracle);
artefact exit code and output ignored; immutable checkout and dependencies;
3 runs per side; one-sided build or readiness failure is inconclusive. An
isolation failure raises IsolationUnavailable instead of reading as
could_not_build (the NPROC limit now applies inside the user namespace).
35 tests, including gaming attempts and 300 host processes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
gVisor replays exhausted the hook's 30 s deadline in the snapshot step on a
1,725-file repository; cluster replays now use 30 s x a measured slowdown
factor, verified on a native sample. The engine runner deletes each pin's fetched
source (1.8 GB had accumulated), caps the cache at 500 MB and refuses below
1.5 GB free. Proof 4.4: two engine pins via the generic dispatcher match the VM
baseline exactly. Implemented with Codex.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Implemented with Codex; task 1.5 run by the coordinator against the real
sources (S3 memory read-only).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Two engine actors died at gVisor level during a 12-pin run (AX phase Failed, no
result). Implemented with Codex.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
