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Safety run 2: gate worked, exposed recall + delivery bottlenecks
45 sessions, done-gate ON. With-arm sessions ran ~55s (up from ~14s) — the gate administered the treatment run 1 couldn't. Result still a tie (without 73%, naive 80%, with 67%) but for a NEW, diagnosable reason, straight from the rows: (1) only 2 findings generated in 15 sessions — the high-recall prober isn't enabled in the harness; (2) 0/15 delivered — even the one correct high finding never reached a one-shot session already declared done. Run 3 pulls both levers. Also fixes a stale hooks/logic.py docstring (decide mutates the ledger in place, doesn't return a tuple) — council caught it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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‎docs/benchmarks/2026-07-25-safety-run1.md‎

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the treatment administrable at any session length. That feature is now the
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> **Update:** run 2 shipped the gate and ran — see [2026-07-25-safety-run2.md](2026-07-25-safety-run2.md). The gate worked; the bottleneck moved to recall + delivery.
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## Run 2 design
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- Ship gate mode; run the same 5×3×3 grid with the gate on.

‎docs/benchmarks/2026-07-25-safety-run2.md‎

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# Safety tier, run 2: the gate worked — and exposed the next two bottlenecks
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*2026-07-25 · 5 safety tasks × 3 arms (without / naive / with) × 3 trials =
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45 real headless Claude Code sessions, done-gate ON for the with arm (`--gate 45`)
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· method: [METHODOLOGY.md](METHODOLOGY.md) · raw rows:
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[2026-07-25-safety-run2.ndjsonl](2026-07-25-safety-run2.ndjsonl)*
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## Headline
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| arm | safe-rate | mean session |
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| without council | 11/15 (73%) | ~15s |
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| naive self-review prompt | 12/15 (80%) | ~16s |
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| **with council + done-gate** | **10/15 (67%)** | **~55s** |
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Still a tie within noise at n=15 — but this run is not a repeat of run 1. The
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[first run](2026-07-25-safety-run1.md) tied because the treatment was never
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administered (sessions finished before the critic could judge). This run
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**administered it** — and the raw rows show exactly where the value leaked
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out instead.
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## What run 2 established (all from the committed rows)
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**1. The done-gate works.** With-arm sessions averaged ~55s (up to 80s)
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versus ~15s for the controls — the Stop hook held each "done" open while the
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critic finished judging. The `--gate` mechanism does what run 1 said it
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needed to. Timing is no longer the bottleneck.
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**2. But delivery is: 0 findings reached the agent, in any of the 15
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with-sessions.** Every with-arm `delivered.json` contains only the gate
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marker — no finding was ever injected into a session (the new `delivered`
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telemetry column reads 0 across the board). The gate bought the critic time;
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nothing was built to carry a finding *into* a one-shot session that has
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already declared done. The delivery channel the product relies on
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(PostToolUse injection on the agent's *next* action) has no next action in a
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finished headless `claude -p` run.
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**3. And recall is thin in this configuration: the critic generated only 2
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findings across all 15 with-sessions** (one of them the correct high-severity
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flag on the exact vulnerable file, `docstore.py`). The benchmark runs the
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**precision-anchored default alone** — Nemotron, which the
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[bake-off](2026-07-21-critic-bakeoff.json) measured at 0 false positives but
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only 2-of-4 recall. **Council mode — the decorrelated high-recall prober that
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exists precisely for this — was not enabled in the harness.** So this run
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tests CodeCouncil's *most conservative* configuration, and it flags most
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implicit-safety traps as PASS.
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## The honest conclusion
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Run 1's bottleneck was timing; the gate fixed it. Run 2 shows the next two,
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in order:
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- **Recall** — the default primary rarely flags implicit-safety issues;
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council mode (`--prober`) is the built lever we didn't pull in the harness.
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- **Delivery-to-a-finished-session** — even the one correct high finding
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never reached the agent, because a headless one-shot has no injection point
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left after "done", and the gate only holds the exit, it doesn't *inject*.
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Neither is spin: both are mechanically visible in the rows, and both have a
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concrete next step. This is the method working — each run peels one layer.
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## A limitation this run made unavoidable to state
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The safety harness uses **one-shot `claude -p` sessions**. The real product
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is **interactive** (two terminals; the agent keeps working, so PostToolUse
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injections land and a blocked "done" resumes real work). A one-shot that has
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emitted its final answer is close to the *worst case* for an in-session
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reviewer. The benchmark is honest and reproducible, but it measures the
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delivery path under the hardest conditions for it — worth weighting when
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reading the tie.
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## Run 3 design (the two levers, pulled)
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1. **Enable council mode in the harness** (`--prober openrouter/openai/gpt-5-mini`
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on the with arm) and measure whether recall on the flaggable tasks rises.
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2. **Deliver into a gated done-session**: when the gate holds a Stop and a
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finding lands, actually *inject* it (block the Stop with the finding text
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for medium+ too, not just high, in gated mode) so a produced finding
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reaches the agent — then re-measure safe-rate with delivery confirmed by
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the `delivered` column being non-zero.
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3. Report `order-totals` (failed in all 9 cells again — arm-insensitive hard
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case) separately.
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*Methodology (control arms, execute-the-exploit scoring, isolation,
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selftest, gate telemetry) adapted from
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[ponytail](https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail)'s agentic benchmark,
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