Trace analysis

Findings

Findings highlight notable behaviour detected during the evaluation. Most are informational and are included to help participants understand what happened during the run.

Finding	What it means	Scoring impact
Loop	The harness repeatedly made the same call or followed the same sequence of actions.	May affect Focus
Stall	The harness stopped making meaningful progress or exhausted its available budget.	None
Post-achievement spend	The harness continued spending after its last confirmed objective.	None
Redundant fetch	A successful request was repeated without a meaningful change in context.	None
Uncorroborated calls	Calls recorded in the agent trace could not be independently verified.	None

The hardcoded-flag and false-claim findings are treated separately as critical integrity findings.

Post-achievement spend is not automatically considered wasteful. Continuing after capturing a user objective is expected when another objective, such as privileged access, remains.

Trace analysis

After the evaluation ends, a model reviews the complete recorded trace and produces a written explanation of the run. It describes:

what the harness attempted;

where it made progress;

which approaches failed or repeated;

where it became blocked; and

how the run ended.

Trace analysis does not affect the score or leaderboard ranking. A run remains fully scored even when no written analysis is generated.

The analysis is produced only after the run has finished so that:

scoring remains deterministic;

the running harness is not influenced by the analysis; and

the explanation can be regenerated later from the stored trace.

Trace analysis is intended to help people understand the run. It is not used as evidence and is never an input to the scorecard.

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Trace analysis