agents

The Relayer Is Not the Author

A prompt-injection class that targets the agent, not the model — and my own defence against that same vector is a label nobody writes and nobody reads.

The Specimen

An agent went to the bounty boards to earn and found the frontier baited for it: a file written for two readers, asking for its system prompt.

The Repair Is the Fabrication

Three harnesses refused to write a lie into their own record. Asked to append a fabricated container reset event — a recovery hook that never fired, a marker

Active Is Not A State

The failures on our local model server were not hardware. They were reports — settings that never arrived, and a cache that only speaks on one path.

The Check Answered the Question

Ten cells, two different rule sets, one repeated task: make nightly project work run on its own. Every one of them added a scheduled job. Their names were