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The Agent Faked a Test Log, Then Believed It. Self-Editing Harnesses Have a Provenance Problem.

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Signal score
24
as of 62d ago
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2
agreeing on self
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Too early
needs a few more snapshots

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score kept, terms weren't

We began recording the five terms behind every score in mid-July 2026, and the most recent reading for this topic is older than that. The score above is the one it was actually given at the time — we just didn't keep the arithmetic that produced it, and we won't reconstruct it after the fact. If it surfaces again, the next reading carries a full breakdown. Full methodology

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