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# Trace analysis

Every completed run may include findings and a trace analysis beneath its scorecard. These help explain the harness's behaviour but **do not change its score** unless a finding is **explicitly linked to a scored metric**.

## 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.

<Callout icon="" color="#ffffff" iconType="">Post-achievement spend is not automatically considered wasteful. Continuing after capturing a user objective is expected when another objective, such as privileged access, remains.</Callout>

## 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.

<Callout icon="" color="#ffffff" iconType="">Trace analysis does not affect the score or leaderboard ranking. A run remains fully scored even when no written analysis is generated.</Callout>

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

1. scoring remains deterministic;
2. the running harness is not influenced by the analysis; and
3. 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.