The HTTP verifier could not distinguish a mis-wired or non-serving app from a
genuine no-effect: both yielded `inconclusive`. This adds a positive control for
the path oracle.
- PathOracle plants a benign in-root marker file (random token from os.urandom,
distinct from the secret canary) and exposes it via a new Oracle.control()
hook (default None; only the path oracle implements it today).
- On the first run of an HTTP side, _side runs a benign GET for that marker as
its own fully-guarded app start. The marker returning proves the interface
serves the fixture; its absence — or any control failure — is recorded in the
new SideRecord.control_observed field but never changes the verdict, since a
valid app may answer only its own routes. A crash is still caught by the
existing could_not_run path.
A 2xx-based "nothing served" block was rejected: the verifier deliberately
treats any HTTP status as the app being alive (a 503-only app is a valid
observed side), so status-based blocking would false-fail valid apps. Soundly
converting a mis-wired-but-responding app into could_not_run requires a
demo-declared control, which is a separate follow-up.
Tests: new tests/test_search_control.py covers marker observed, absent marker
not blocking, control failure not blocking a working attack, and crash still
could_not_run. Full search-verify/probe/worker suites pass; ruff clean; mypy
unchanged (only the pre-existing file_bindings lambda note).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[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]>
The pip recipe ran under the system Python 3.13 while apps started under the
venv 3.12, so compiled extensions never loaded. Both now use sys.executable.
Package-style starts see the checkout root; NODE_PATH lists the project
node_modules under the checkout before the products mount.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Demos may reference ${served_root}, ${database_path}, ${marker_dir} or
${callback_url}; the verifier substitutes them per side, so apps that take a
directory or database argument can be wired to the oracle. Python apps start
under the verifier interpreter (the one pip built the products for): the image
carries a second system Python whose ABI tag broke compiled extensions.
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]>
The kind default "pin" had produced ousast-engine-pin-search-verify-* names,
which the operator per-host egress rules do not match.
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]>
Demos may set a bounded environment (loader variables denied) and up to 8 small
data files under .demo/; the reason step sees conclusions and may not re-propose
them; a task spend limit concludes its intent, not the search; finish wins over
stray tool calls.
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]>
On kube-ax the probe detected task-boundary and then failed the bwrap preflight it
no longer needs; now it skips the preflight, runs every oracle pair through the
verifier path a task uses, and reports ok only if every real demo is
demonstrated and no gaming demo is. Fixes a double fixture-path translation.
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]>
One base (Temurin 21 JDK, node/npm/tsc, php/composer, maven, sqlite, bwrap)
built only when its Dockerfile or dependencies change, plus a browser variant;
engine/search/VM images FROM base@sha256 with the code in the last layer; the
image workflow runs on dispatch, tags, Dockerfile or pin changes, with a build
cache. Executor NPROC bound relative to the current process count.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Settled ~$0.003 per model call; worst-case reservations exhausted the $0.05 task
allowance after 2-4 calls. Now $0.40 per task, $2 per search (maintainer decision).
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]>
The official Python base sets GPG_KEY (public CPython signing fingerprint); the
executor rightly refused it as a credential-like name on kube-ax.
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]>
