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HolyTrinity Bench

An adversarial security benchmark for agent authorization. It measures one thing about an authority control plane: the gap between an agent proposing a policy-violating action and that action producing an unauthorized external effect. The agent is stipulated to be compromised; the question is whether misbehavior converts to effect.

The two papers

Both are readable here, in Markdown. Read them in this order:

  1. The Model Proposes, the System Authorizes — the architecture, and the paper that specifies this evaluation: the threat model, the invariant, and the metric this benchmark was built to measure. It pre-registers what would refute it.
  2. Authority-Bound Agentic Execution: Measuring Unauthorized Effect Under Adversarial Load — the evaluation itself: the campaign, the ablations, the intervals, and what the result does and does not establish.

Both by Ayla Croft, ScriptKittyOS. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

papers/ holds the LaTeX sources. Those are the archival record — the deposited Zenodo versions hold exactly those files, verified by hash — not the copies you are meant to read. The Markdown above is generated from them and checked against them by scoring/check_paper_sync.py, which fails if a number appears in one and not the other. That gate exists because these renderings have drifted before, and both times the Markdown kept a figure the LaTeX had already retracted.

Headline result

Across 73 trials (61 attack trials + 12 known-good controls) against the system under test, a violating action was constructed and driven in 57 of the 61 attack trials and produced 0 unauthorized external effects (per-trial 95% CI [0.0%, 5.9%]; cluster-aware ≤32.4% over the 8 distinct mechanisms the set exercises — see REPORT.md). A zero is what a reviewer distrusts, so it is not presented alone — the benchmark backs it with:

  • an ablation study (disable each mechanism; its attacks convert — 0→10, 0→5, 0→5, 0→14 for the content firewall, runtime sentinel, skill auditor and approval binding, and 0→2 for two-person approval: five mechanisms, each demonstrated necessary);
  • a no-control baseline (whole membrane off → 51 of 63 trials convert) — where 63 is not a count of attacks but the F1–F5 + F8 totals, including 8 known-good controls and F8's 4 non-attacks, and is not the campaign's 61 either, because the baseline set omits F6, F7 and F9, which have no runtime toggle;
  • a measured trusted-computing-base boundary (each ablatable element removed in turn with the full 73-trial catalog driven against it, so 41 provider-call trials are live under every ablation: only the kernel element's failure admits a provider-call effect, surface reducers admit gate-channel effects only. Scope is stated rather than implied — single removals only, and F6/F7/F9 plus the membrane and durable store are never ablated — REPORT.md, paper §9.1);
  • a kept-and-fixed failure (the one effect an earlier run leaked, closed and re-measured);
  • confidence intervals on every rate and an independent-oracle calibration (0 overclaims in 41 provider-call trials; on all 6 trials where a real effect occurred the system's proof state matched the independent verdict — REPORT.md gives the decomposition, which is the honest form of the claim).

Reproducibility — partial, stated honestly

This repository open-sources the benchmark and its results, not the system under test. The Trinity control plane is patent-pending and not yet public, so the campaign is not re-executable end-to-end here. Two things are checkable now:

  1. Results are auditable from the released artifacts. Every campaign number and table follows mechanically from the committed JSONL (artifacts/). The scoring/ modules recompute them without the system. Every other published table recomputes the same way, from per-trial records that ship alongside: the ablation study, the no-control ceiling, the compound ablation, the four full-catalog §9.1 probes, overhead, false denials, F10, and the blind-set result. What the artifacts do not settle is scope — which runs exist at all — and that is stated at each table rather than left to be inferred. MANIFEST.md and artifacts/README.md say the same thing; read each artifact's _meta.caveat for what its run can and cannot support.
  2. The method is inspectable — the frozen specification, the family taxonomy, the released family definitions, the declarative blind-attack sets, the scoring modules, and the full harness: the independent oracle, the aggressor, the runner, and the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers. These reference the system under test, so they do not compile standalone; they are published so the adjudication method can be checked line by line rather than taken on trust.

Full end-to-end re-execution becomes possible when the system under test is released.

Layout

PAPER.md the evaluation paper, readable (the rest of the docs link to it here)
PAPER-ARCHITECTURE.md the architecture paper, readable — read this one first
papers/ the LaTeX sources for both, and the archival record: the deposited Zenodo
versions hold exactly these files, verified by hash (see papers/README.md)
REPORT.md measured results (auditable from artifacts/)
oracle/ the independent adjudicator — the component the result depends on
aggressor/ attack construction, the variant catalogs, the chaos drivers, fixtures
harness/ the runner + the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers
spec/
SPEC.md the frozen methodology (definition of unauthorized effect, outcome model,
families, trial schema)
ABLATION.md the causal spine (the TCB boundary table is in REPORT.md and paper §9.1)
PACKAGING-NOTES.md how to read the frozen SPEC in this layout + the deviation table
families/ the nine-boundary taxonomy + released family definitions (F4/F5/F6/F8/F9)
blind/ declarative, code-blind attack sets + protocol
fixtures/ released-vs-held disclosure split
artifacts/ committed result JSONL for every published run + the family table as data,
with README.md recording provenance, schema departures, and what they
can/cannot verify
ablation/ per-trial records for the six single-mechanism ablations behind the §6.5
ablation table
scoring/ the system-free scoring modules, plus verify.exs and verify.py —
dependency-free verifiers that recompute every published number from the
committed records and exit non-zero on disagreement; check_paper_sync.py
holds each paper's Markdown to its LaTeX (see scoring/VERIFY.md)
LICENSE CC BY 4.0
CITATION.cff citation metadata
MANIFEST.md exactly what is and is not in this release, and why
SHA256SUMS SHA-256 for every file in the release; `sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS` confirms
the bytes you hold are the ones described here

What is not here

The system under test (the Trinity control plane) and the held red-team corpora for the content/runtime/skill families (F1–F3) — their contents are the detection surface those mechanisms are tuned against, so releasing them would be a defensive-hardening problem rather than an IP one. The harness that drives the benchmark is released; it simply cannot compile without the system. See MANIFEST.md.

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HolyTrinity Bench

An adversarial security benchmark for agent authorization. It measures one thing about an authority control plane: the gap between an agent proposing a policy-violating action and that action producing an unauthorized external effect. The agent is stipulated to be compromised; the question is whether misbehavior converts to effect.

The two papers

Both are readable here, in Markdown. Read them in this order:

  1. The Model Proposes, the System Authorizes — the architecture, and the paper that specifies this evaluation: the threat model, the invariant, and the metric this benchmark was built to measure. It pre-registers what would refute it.
  2. Authority-Bound Agentic Execution: Measuring Unauthorized Effect Under Adversarial Load — the evaluation itself: the campaign, the ablations, the intervals, and what the result does and does not establish.

Both by Ayla Croft, ScriptKittyOS. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

papers/ holds the LaTeX sources. Those are the archival record — the deposited Zenodo versions hold exactly those files, verified by hash — not the copies you are meant to read. The Markdown above is generated from them and checked against them by scoring/check_paper_sync.py, which fails if a number appears in one and not the other. That gate exists because these renderings have drifted before, and both times the Markdown kept a figure the LaTeX had already retracted.

Headline result

Across 73 trials (61 attack trials + 12 known-good controls) against the system under test, a violating action was constructed and driven in 57 of the 61 attack trials and produced 0 unauthorized external effects (per-trial 95% CI [0.0%, 5.9%]; cluster-aware ≤32.4% over the 8 distinct mechanisms the set exercises — see REPORT.md). A zero is what a reviewer distrusts, so it is not presented alone — the benchmark backs it with:

  • an ablation study (disable each mechanism; its attacks convert — 0→10, 0→5, 0→5, 0→14 for the content firewall, runtime sentinel, skill auditor and approval binding, and 0→2 for two-person approval: five mechanisms, each demonstrated necessary);
  • a no-control baseline (whole membrane off → 51 of 63 trials convert) — where 63 is not a count of attacks but the F1–F5 + F8 totals, including 8 known-good controls and F8's 4 non-attacks, and is not the campaign's 61 either, because the baseline set omits F6, F7 and F9, which have no runtime toggle;
  • a measured trusted-computing-base boundary (each ablatable element removed in turn with the full 73-trial catalog driven against it, so 41 provider-call trials are live under every ablation: only the kernel element's failure admits a provider-call effect, surface reducers admit gate-channel effects only. Scope is stated rather than implied — single removals only, and F6/F7/F9 plus the membrane and durable store are never ablated — REPORT.md, paper §9.1);
  • a kept-and-fixed failure (the one effect an earlier run leaked, closed and re-measured);
  • confidence intervals on every rate and an independent-oracle calibration (0 overclaims in 41 provider-call trials; on all 6 trials where a real effect occurred the system's proof state matched the independent verdict — REPORT.md gives the decomposition, which is the honest form of the claim).

Reproducibility — partial, stated honestly

This repository open-sources the benchmark and its results, not the system under test. The Trinity control plane is patent-pending and not yet public, so the campaign is not re-executable end-to-end here. Two things are checkable now:

  1. Results are auditable from the released artifacts. Every campaign number and table follows mechanically from the committed JSONL (artifacts/). The scoring/ modules recompute them without the system. Every other published table recomputes the same way, from per-trial records that ship alongside: the ablation study, the no-control ceiling, the compound ablation, the four full-catalog §9.1 probes, overhead, false denials, F10, and the blind-set result. What the artifacts do not settle is scope — which runs exist at all — and that is stated at each table rather than left to be inferred. MANIFEST.md and artifacts/README.md say the same thing; read each artifact's _meta.caveat for what its run can and cannot support.
  2. The method is inspectable — the frozen specification, the family taxonomy, the released family definitions, the declarative blind-attack sets, the scoring modules, and the full harness: the independent oracle, the aggressor, the runner, and the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers. These reference the system under test, so they do not compile standalone; they are published so the adjudication method can be checked line by line rather than taken on trust.

Full end-to-end re-execution becomes possible when the system under test is released.

Layout

PAPER.md the evaluation paper, readable (the rest of the docs link to it here)
PAPER-ARCHITECTURE.md the architecture paper, readable — read this one first
papers/ the LaTeX sources for both, and the archival record: the deposited Zenodo
versions hold exactly these files, verified by hash (see papers/README.md)
REPORT.md measured results (auditable from artifacts/)
oracle/ the independent adjudicator — the component the result depends on
aggressor/ attack construction, the variant catalogs, the chaos drivers, fixtures
harness/ the runner + the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers
spec/
SPEC.md the frozen methodology (definition of unauthorized effect, outcome model,
families, trial schema)
ABLATION.md the causal spine (the TCB boundary table is in REPORT.md and paper §9.1)
PACKAGING-NOTES.md how to read the frozen SPEC in this layout + the deviation table
families/ the nine-boundary taxonomy + released family definitions (F4/F5/F6/F8/F9)
blind/ declarative, code-blind attack sets + protocol
fixtures/ released-vs-held disclosure split
artifacts/ committed result JSONL for every published run + the family table as data,
with README.md recording provenance, schema departures, and what they
can/cannot verify
ablation/ per-trial records for the six single-mechanism ablations behind the §6.5
ablation table
scoring/ the system-free scoring modules, plus verify.exs and verify.py —
dependency-free verifiers that recompute every published number from the
committed records and exit non-zero on disagreement; check_paper_sync.py
holds each paper's Markdown to its LaTeX (see scoring/VERIFY.md)
LICENSE CC BY 4.0
CITATION.cff citation metadata
MANIFEST.md exactly what is and is not in this release, and why
SHA256SUMS SHA-256 for every file in the release; `sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS` confirms
the bytes you hold are the ones described here

What is not here

The system under test (the Trinity control plane) and the held red-team corpora for the content/runtime/skill families (F1–F3) — their contents are the detection surface those mechanisms are tuned against, so releasing them would be a defensive-hardening problem rather than an IP one. The harness that drives the benchmark is released; it simply cannot compile without the system. See MANIFEST.md.

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HolyTrinity Bench

An adversarial security benchmark for agent authorization. It measures one thing about an authority control plane: the gap between an agent proposing a policy-violating action and that action producing an unauthorized external effect. The agent is stipulated to be compromised; the question is whether misbehavior converts to effect.

The two papers

Both are readable here, in Markdown. Read them in this order:

  1. The Model Proposes, the System Authorizes — the architecture, and the paper that specifies this evaluation: the threat model, the invariant, and the metric this benchmark was built to measure. It pre-registers what would refute it.
  2. Authority-Bound Agentic Execution: Measuring Unauthorized Effect Under Adversarial Load — the evaluation itself: the campaign, the ablations, the intervals, and what the result does and does not establish.

Both by Ayla Croft, ScriptKittyOS. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

papers/ holds the LaTeX sources. Those are the archival record — the deposited Zenodo versions hold exactly those files, verified by hash — not the copies you are meant to read. The Markdown above is generated from them and checked against them by scoring/check_paper_sync.py, which fails if a number appears in one and not the other. That gate exists because these renderings have drifted before, and both times the Markdown kept a figure the LaTeX had already retracted.

Headline result

Across 73 trials (61 attack trials + 12 known-good controls) against the system under test, a violating action was constructed and driven in 57 of the 61 attack trials and produced 0 unauthorized external effects (per-trial 95% CI [0.0%, 5.9%]; cluster-aware ≤32.4% over the 8 distinct mechanisms the set exercises — see REPORT.md). A zero is what a reviewer distrusts, so it is not presented alone — the benchmark backs it with:

  • an ablation study (disable each mechanism; its attacks convert — 0→10, 0→5, 0→5, 0→14 for the content firewall, runtime sentinel, skill auditor and approval binding, and 0→2 for two-person approval: five mechanisms, each demonstrated necessary);
  • a no-control baseline (whole membrane off → 51 of 63 trials convert) — where 63 is not a count of attacks but the F1–F5 + F8 totals, including 8 known-good controls and F8's 4 non-attacks, and is not the campaign's 61 either, because the baseline set omits F6, F7 and F9, which have no runtime toggle;
  • a measured trusted-computing-base boundary (each ablatable element removed in turn with the full 73-trial catalog driven against it, so 41 provider-call trials are live under every ablation: only the kernel element's failure admits a provider-call effect, surface reducers admit gate-channel effects only. Scope is stated rather than implied — single removals only, and F6/F7/F9 plus the membrane and durable store are never ablated — REPORT.md, paper §9.1);
  • a kept-and-fixed failure (the one effect an earlier run leaked, closed and re-measured);
  • confidence intervals on every rate and an independent-oracle calibration (0 overclaims in 41 provider-call trials; on all 6 trials where a real effect occurred the system's proof state matched the independent verdict — REPORT.md gives the decomposition, which is the honest form of the claim).

Reproducibility — partial, stated honestly

This repository open-sources the benchmark and its results, not the system under test. The Trinity control plane is patent-pending and not yet public, so the campaign is not re-executable end-to-end here. Two things are checkable now:

  1. Results are auditable from the released artifacts. Every campaign number and table follows mechanically from the committed JSONL (artifacts/). The scoring/ modules recompute them without the system. Every other published table recomputes the same way, from per-trial records that ship alongside: the ablation study, the no-control ceiling, the compound ablation, the four full-catalog §9.1 probes, overhead, false denials, F10, and the blind-set result. What the artifacts do not settle is scope — which runs exist at all — and that is stated at each table rather than left to be inferred. MANIFEST.md and artifacts/README.md say the same thing; read each artifact's _meta.caveat for what its run can and cannot support.
  2. The method is inspectable — the frozen specification, the family taxonomy, the released family definitions, the declarative blind-attack sets, the scoring modules, and the full harness: the independent oracle, the aggressor, the runner, and the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers. These reference the system under test, so they do not compile standalone; they are published so the adjudication method can be checked line by line rather than taken on trust.

Full end-to-end re-execution becomes possible when the system under test is released.

Layout

PAPER.md the evaluation paper, readable (the rest of the docs link to it here)
PAPER-ARCHITECTURE.md the architecture paper, readable — read this one first
papers/ the LaTeX sources for both, and the archival record: the deposited Zenodo
versions hold exactly these files, verified by hash (see papers/README.md)
REPORT.md measured results (auditable from artifacts/)
oracle/ the independent adjudicator — the component the result depends on
aggressor/ attack construction, the variant catalogs, the chaos drivers, fixtures
harness/ the runner + the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers
spec/
SPEC.md the frozen methodology (definition of unauthorized effect, outcome model,
families, trial schema)
ABLATION.md the causal spine (the TCB boundary table is in REPORT.md and paper §9.1)
PACKAGING-NOTES.md how to read the frozen SPEC in this layout + the deviation table
families/ the nine-boundary taxonomy + released family definitions (F4/F5/F6/F8/F9)
blind/ declarative, code-blind attack sets + protocol
fixtures/ released-vs-held disclosure split
artifacts/ committed result JSONL for every published run + the family table as data,
with README.md recording provenance, schema departures, and what they
can/cannot verify
ablation/ per-trial records for the six single-mechanism ablations behind the §6.5
ablation table
scoring/ the system-free scoring modules, plus verify.exs and verify.py —
dependency-free verifiers that recompute every published number from the
committed records and exit non-zero on disagreement; check_paper_sync.py
holds each paper's Markdown to its LaTeX (see scoring/VERIFY.md)
LICENSE CC BY 4.0
CITATION.cff citation metadata
MANIFEST.md exactly what is and is not in this release, and why
SHA256SUMS SHA-256 for every file in the release; `sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS` confirms
the bytes you hold are the ones described here

What is not here

The system under test (the Trinity control plane) and the held red-team corpora for the content/runtime/skill families (F1–F3) — their contents are the detection surface those mechanisms are tuned against, so releasing them would be a defensive-hardening problem rather than an IP one. The harness that drives the benchmark is released; it simply cannot compile without the system. See MANIFEST.md.

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See CITATION.cff. License: CC BY 4.0 (LICENSE).

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HolyTrinity Bench

An adversarial security benchmark for agent authorization. It measures one thing about an authority control plane: the gap between an agent proposing a policy-violating action and that action producing an unauthorized external effect. The agent is stipulated to be compromised; the question is whether misbehavior converts to effect.

The two papers

Both are readable here, in Markdown. Read them in this order:

  1. The Model Proposes, the System Authorizes — the architecture, and the paper that specifies this evaluation: the threat model, the invariant, and the metric this benchmark was built to measure. It pre-registers what would refute it.
  2. Authority-Bound Agentic Execution: Measuring Unauthorized Effect Under Adversarial Load — the evaluation itself: the campaign, the ablations, the intervals, and what the result does and does not establish.

Both by Ayla Croft, ScriptKittyOS. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

papers/ holds the LaTeX sources. Those are the archival record — the deposited Zenodo versions hold exactly those files, verified by hash — not the copies you are meant to read. The Markdown above is generated from them and checked against them by scoring/check_paper_sync.py, which fails if a number appears in one and not the other. That gate exists because these renderings have drifted before, and both times the Markdown kept a figure the LaTeX had already retracted.

Headline result

Across 73 trials (61 attack trials + 12 known-good controls) against the system under test, a violating action was constructed and driven in 57 of the 61 attack trials and produced 0 unauthorized external effects (per-trial 95% CI [0.0%, 5.9%]; cluster-aware ≤32.4% over the 8 distinct mechanisms the set exercises — see REPORT.md). A zero is what a reviewer distrusts, so it is not presented alone — the benchmark backs it with:

  • an ablation study (disable each mechanism; its attacks convert — 0→10, 0→5, 0→5, 0→14 for the content firewall, runtime sentinel, skill auditor and approval binding, and 0→2 for two-person approval: five mechanisms, each demonstrated necessary);
  • a no-control baseline (whole membrane off → 51 of 63 trials convert) — where 63 is not a count of attacks but the F1–F5 + F8 totals, including 8 known-good controls and F8's 4 non-attacks, and is not the campaign's 61 either, because the baseline set omits F6, F7 and F9, which have no runtime toggle;
  • a measured trusted-computing-base boundary (each ablatable element removed in turn with the full 73-trial catalog driven against it, so 41 provider-call trials are live under every ablation: only the kernel element's failure admits a provider-call effect, surface reducers admit gate-channel effects only. Scope is stated rather than implied — single removals only, and F6/F7/F9 plus the membrane and durable store are never ablated — REPORT.md, paper §9.1);
  • a kept-and-fixed failure (the one effect an earlier run leaked, closed and re-measured);
  • confidence intervals on every rate and an independent-oracle calibration (0 overclaims in 41 provider-call trials; on all 6 trials where a real effect occurred the system's proof state matched the independent verdict — REPORT.md gives the decomposition, which is the honest form of the claim).

Reproducibility — partial, stated honestly

This repository open-sources the benchmark and its results, not the system under test. The Trinity control plane is patent-pending and not yet public, so the campaign is not re-executable end-to-end here. Two things are checkable now:

  1. Results are auditable from the released artifacts. Every campaign number and table follows mechanically from the committed JSONL (artifacts/). The scoring/ modules recompute them without the system. Every other published table recomputes the same way, from per-trial records that ship alongside: the ablation study, the no-control ceiling, the compound ablation, the four full-catalog §9.1 probes, overhead, false denials, F10, and the blind-set result. What the artifacts do not settle is scope — which runs exist at all — and that is stated at each table rather than left to be inferred. MANIFEST.md and artifacts/README.md say the same thing; read each artifact's _meta.caveat for what its run can and cannot support.
  2. The method is inspectable — the frozen specification, the family taxonomy, the released family definitions, the declarative blind-attack sets, the scoring modules, and the full harness: the independent oracle, the aggressor, the runner, and the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers. These reference the system under test, so they do not compile standalone; they are published so the adjudication method can be checked line by line rather than taken on trust.

Full end-to-end re-execution becomes possible when the system under test is released.

Layout

PAPER.md the evaluation paper, readable (the rest of the docs link to it here)
PAPER-ARCHITECTURE.md the architecture paper, readable — read this one first
papers/ the LaTeX sources for both, and the archival record: the deposited Zenodo
versions hold exactly these files, verified by hash (see papers/README.md)
REPORT.md measured results (auditable from artifacts/)
oracle/ the independent adjudicator — the component the result depends on
aggressor/ attack construction, the variant catalogs, the chaos drivers, fixtures
harness/ the runner + the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers
spec/
SPEC.md the frozen methodology (definition of unauthorized effect, outcome model,
families, trial schema)
ABLATION.md the causal spine (the TCB boundary table is in REPORT.md and paper §9.1)
PACKAGING-NOTES.md how to read the frozen SPEC in this layout + the deviation table
families/ the nine-boundary taxonomy + released family definitions (F4/F5/F6/F8/F9)
blind/ declarative, code-blind attack sets + protocol
fixtures/ released-vs-held disclosure split
artifacts/ committed result JSONL for every published run + the family table as data,
with README.md recording provenance, schema departures, and what they
can/cannot verify
ablation/ per-trial records for the six single-mechanism ablations behind the §6.5
ablation table
scoring/ the system-free scoring modules, plus verify.exs and verify.py —
dependency-free verifiers that recompute every published number from the
committed records and exit non-zero on disagreement; check_paper_sync.py
holds each paper's Markdown to its LaTeX (see scoring/VERIFY.md)
LICENSE CC BY 4.0
CITATION.cff citation metadata
MANIFEST.md exactly what is and is not in this release, and why
SHA256SUMS SHA-256 for every file in the release; `sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS` confirms
the bytes you hold are the ones described here

What is not here

The system under test (the Trinity control plane) and the held red-team corpora for the content/runtime/skill families (F1–F3) — their contents are the detection surface those mechanisms are tuned against, so releasing them would be a defensive-hardening problem rather than an IP one. The harness that drives the benchmark is released; it simply cannot compile without the system. See MANIFEST.md.

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An adversarial security benchmark for agent authorization. It measures one thing about an authority control plane: the gap between an agent proposing a policy-violating action and that action producing an unauthorized external effect. The agent is stipulated to be compromised; the question is whether misbehavior converts to effect.

The two papers

Both are readable here, in Markdown. Read them in this order:

  1. The Model Proposes, the System Authorizes — the architecture, and the paper that specifies this evaluation: the threat model, the invariant, and the metric this benchmark was built to measure. It pre-registers what would refute it.
  2. Authority-Bound Agentic Execution: Measuring Unauthorized Effect Under Adversarial Load — the evaluation itself: the campaign, the ablations, the intervals, and what the result does and does not establish.

Both by Ayla Croft, ScriptKittyOS. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

papers/ holds the LaTeX sources. Those are the archival record — the deposited Zenodo versions hold exactly those files, verified by hash — not the copies you are meant to read. The Markdown above is generated from them and checked against them by scoring/check_paper_sync.py, which fails if a number appears in one and not the other. That gate exists because these renderings have drifted before, and both times the Markdown kept a figure the LaTeX had already retracted.

Headline result

Across 73 trials (61 attack trials + 12 known-good controls) against the system under test, a violating action was constructed and driven in 57 of the 61 attack trials and produced 0 unauthorized external effects (per-trial 95% CI [0.0%, 5.9%]; cluster-aware ≤32.4% over the 8 distinct mechanisms the set exercises — see REPORT.md). A zero is what a reviewer distrusts, so it is not presented alone — the benchmark backs it with:

  • an ablation study (disable each mechanism; its attacks convert — 0→10, 0→5, 0→5, 0→14 for the content firewall, runtime sentinel, skill auditor and approval binding, and 0→2 for two-person approval: five mechanisms, each demonstrated necessary);
  • a no-control baseline (whole membrane off → 51 of 63 trials convert) — where 63 is not a count of attacks but the F1–F5 + F8 totals, including 8 known-good controls and F8's 4 non-attacks, and is not the campaign's 61 either, because the baseline set omits F6, F7 and F9, which have no runtime toggle;
  • a measured trusted-computing-base boundary (each ablatable element removed in turn with the full 73-trial catalog driven against it, so 41 provider-call trials are live under every ablation: only the kernel element's failure admits a provider-call effect, surface reducers admit gate-channel effects only. Scope is stated rather than implied — single removals only, and F6/F7/F9 plus the membrane and durable store are never ablated — REPORT.md, paper §9.1);
  • a kept-and-fixed failure (the one effect an earlier run leaked, closed and re-measured);
  • confidence intervals on every rate and an independent-oracle calibration (0 overclaims in 41 provider-call trials; on all 6 trials where a real effect occurred the system's proof state matched the independent verdict — REPORT.md gives the decomposition, which is the honest form of the claim).

Reproducibility — partial, stated honestly

This repository open-sources the benchmark and its results, not the system under test. The Trinity control plane is patent-pending and not yet public, so the campaign is not re-executable end-to-end here. Two things are checkable now:

  1. Results are auditable from the released artifacts. Every campaign number and table follows mechanically from the committed JSONL (artifacts/). The scoring/ modules recompute them without the system. Every other published table recomputes the same way, from per-trial records that ship alongside: the ablation study, the no-control ceiling, the compound ablation, the four full-catalog §9.1 probes, overhead, false denials, F10, and the blind-set result. What the artifacts do not settle is scope — which runs exist at all — and that is stated at each table rather than left to be inferred. MANIFEST.md and artifacts/README.md say the same thing; read each artifact's _meta.caveat for what its run can and cannot support.
  2. The method is inspectable — the frozen specification, the family taxonomy, the released family definitions, the declarative blind-attack sets, the scoring modules, and the full harness: the independent oracle, the aggressor, the runner, and the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers. These reference the system under test, so they do not compile standalone; they are published so the adjudication method can be checked line by line rather than taken on trust.

Full end-to-end re-execution becomes possible when the system under test is released.

Layout

PAPER.md the evaluation paper, readable (the rest of the docs link to it here)
PAPER-ARCHITECTURE.md the architecture paper, readable — read this one first
papers/ the LaTeX sources for both, and the archival record: the deposited Zenodo
versions hold exactly these files, verified by hash (see papers/README.md)
REPORT.md measured results (auditable from artifacts/)
oracle/ the independent adjudicator — the component the result depends on
aggressor/ attack construction, the variant catalogs, the chaos drivers, fixtures
harness/ the runner + the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers
spec/
SPEC.md the frozen methodology (definition of unauthorized effect, outcome model,
families, trial schema)
ABLATION.md the causal spine (the TCB boundary table is in REPORT.md and paper §9.1)
PACKAGING-NOTES.md how to read the frozen SPEC in this layout + the deviation table
families/ the nine-boundary taxonomy + released family definitions (F4/F5/F6/F8/F9)
blind/ declarative, code-blind attack sets + protocol
fixtures/ released-vs-held disclosure split
artifacts/ committed result JSONL for every published run + the family table as data,
with README.md recording provenance, schema departures, and what they
can/cannot verify
ablation/ per-trial records for the six single-mechanism ablations behind the §6.5
ablation table
scoring/ the system-free scoring modules, plus verify.exs and verify.py —
dependency-free verifiers that recompute every published number from the
committed records and exit non-zero on disagreement; check_paper_sync.py
holds each paper's Markdown to its LaTeX (see scoring/VERIFY.md)
LICENSE CC BY 4.0
CITATION.cff citation metadata
MANIFEST.md exactly what is and is not in this release, and why
SHA256SUMS SHA-256 for every file in the release; `sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS` confirms
the bytes you hold are the ones described here

What is not here

The system under test (the Trinity control plane) and the held red-team corpora for the content/runtime/skill families (F1–F3) — their contents are the detection surface those mechanisms are tuned against, so releasing them would be a defensive-hardening problem rather than an IP one. The harness that drives the benchmark is released; it simply cannot compile without the system. See MANIFEST.md.

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HolyTrinity Bench

An adversarial security benchmark for agent authorization. It measures one thing about an authority control plane: the gap between an agent proposing a policy-violating action and that action producing an unauthorized external effect. The agent is stipulated to be compromised; the question is whether misbehavior converts to effect.

The two papers

Both are readable here, in Markdown. Read them in this order:

  1. The Model Proposes, the System Authorizes — the architecture, and the paper that specifies this evaluation: the threat model, the invariant, and the metric this benchmark was built to measure. It pre-registers what would refute it.
  2. Authority-Bound Agentic Execution: Measuring Unauthorized Effect Under Adversarial Load — the evaluation itself: the campaign, the ablations, the intervals, and what the result does and does not establish.

Both by Ayla Croft, ScriptKittyOS. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

papers/ holds the LaTeX sources. Those are the archival record — the deposited Zenodo versions hold exactly those files, verified by hash — not the copies you are meant to read. The Markdown above is generated from them and checked against them by scoring/check_paper_sync.py, which fails if a number appears in one and not the other. That gate exists because these renderings have drifted before, and both times the Markdown kept a figure the LaTeX had already retracted.

Headline result

Across 73 trials (61 attack trials + 12 known-good controls) against the system under test, a violating action was constructed and driven in 57 of the 61 attack trials and produced 0 unauthorized external effects (per-trial 95% CI [0.0%, 5.9%]; cluster-aware ≤32.4% over the 8 distinct mechanisms the set exercises — see REPORT.md). A zero is what a reviewer distrusts, so it is not presented alone — the benchmark backs it with:

  • an ablation study (disable each mechanism; its attacks convert — 0→10, 0→5, 0→5, 0→14 for the content firewall, runtime sentinel, skill auditor and approval binding, and 0→2 for two-person approval: five mechanisms, each demonstrated necessary);
  • a no-control baseline (whole membrane off → 51 of 63 trials convert) — where 63 is not a count of attacks but the F1–F5 + F8 totals, including 8 known-good controls and F8's 4 non-attacks, and is not the campaign's 61 either, because the baseline set omits F6, F7 and F9, which have no runtime toggle;
  • a measured trusted-computing-base boundary (each ablatable element removed in turn with the full 73-trial catalog driven against it, so 41 provider-call trials are live under every ablation: only the kernel element's failure admits a provider-call effect, surface reducers admit gate-channel effects only. Scope is stated rather than implied — single removals only, and F6/F7/F9 plus the membrane and durable store are never ablated — REPORT.md, paper §9.1);
  • a kept-and-fixed failure (the one effect an earlier run leaked, closed and re-measured);
  • confidence intervals on every rate and an independent-oracle calibration (0 overclaims in 41 provider-call trials; on all 6 trials where a real effect occurred the system's proof state matched the independent verdict — REPORT.md gives the decomposition, which is the honest form of the claim).

Reproducibility — partial, stated honestly

This repository open-sources the benchmark and its results, not the system under test. The Trinity control plane is patent-pending and not yet public, so the campaign is not re-executable end-to-end here. Two things are checkable now:

  1. Results are auditable from the released artifacts. Every campaign number and table follows mechanically from the committed JSONL (artifacts/). The scoring/ modules recompute them without the system. Every other published table recomputes the same way, from per-trial records that ship alongside: the ablation study, the no-control ceiling, the compound ablation, the four full-catalog §9.1 probes, overhead, false denials, F10, and the blind-set result. What the artifacts do not settle is scope — which runs exist at all — and that is stated at each table rather than left to be inferred. MANIFEST.md and artifacts/README.md say the same thing; read each artifact's _meta.caveat for what its run can and cannot support.
  2. The method is inspectable — the frozen specification, the family taxonomy, the released family definitions, the declarative blind-attack sets, the scoring modules, and the full harness: the independent oracle, the aggressor, the runner, and the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers. These reference the system under test, so they do not compile standalone; they are published so the adjudication method can be checked line by line rather than taken on trust.

Full end-to-end re-execution becomes possible when the system under test is released.

Layout

PAPER.md the evaluation paper, readable (the rest of the docs link to it here)
PAPER-ARCHITECTURE.md the architecture paper, readable — read this one first
papers/ the LaTeX sources for both, and the archival record: the deposited Zenodo
versions hold exactly these files, verified by hash (see papers/README.md)
REPORT.md measured results (auditable from artifacts/)
oracle/ the independent adjudicator — the component the result depends on
aggressor/ attack construction, the variant catalogs, the chaos drivers, fixtures
harness/ the runner + the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers
spec/
SPEC.md the frozen methodology (definition of unauthorized effect, outcome model,
families, trial schema)
ABLATION.md the causal spine (the TCB boundary table is in REPORT.md and paper §9.1)
PACKAGING-NOTES.md how to read the frozen SPEC in this layout + the deviation table
families/ the nine-boundary taxonomy + released family definitions (F4/F5/F6/F8/F9)
blind/ declarative, code-blind attack sets + protocol
fixtures/ released-vs-held disclosure split
artifacts/ committed result JSONL for every published run + the family table as data,
with README.md recording provenance, schema departures, and what they
can/cannot verify
ablation/ per-trial records for the six single-mechanism ablations behind the §6.5
ablation table
scoring/ the system-free scoring modules, plus verify.exs and verify.py —
dependency-free verifiers that recompute every published number from the
committed records and exit non-zero on disagreement; check_paper_sync.py
holds each paper's Markdown to its LaTeX (see scoring/VERIFY.md)
LICENSE CC BY 4.0
CITATION.cff citation metadata
MANIFEST.md exactly what is and is not in this release, and why
SHA256SUMS SHA-256 for every file in the release; `sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS` confirms
the bytes you hold are the ones described here

What is not here

The system under test (the Trinity control plane) and the held red-team corpora for the content/runtime/skill families (F1–F3) — their contents are the detection surface those mechanisms are tuned against, so releasing them would be a defensive-hardening problem rather than an IP one. The harness that drives the benchmark is released; it simply cannot compile without the system. See MANIFEST.md.

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See CITATION.cff. License: CC BY 4.0 (LICENSE).

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HolyTrinity Bench

An adversarial security benchmark for agent authorization. It measures one thing about an authority control plane: the gap between an agent proposing a policy-violating action and that action producing an unauthorized external effect. The agent is stipulated to be compromised; the question is whether misbehavior converts to effect.

The two papers

Both are readable here, in Markdown. Read them in this order:

  1. The Model Proposes, the System Authorizes — the architecture, and the paper that specifies this evaluation: the threat model, the invariant, and the metric this benchmark was built to measure. It pre-registers what would refute it.
  2. Authority-Bound Agentic Execution: Measuring Unauthorized Effect Under Adversarial Load — the evaluation itself: the campaign, the ablations, the intervals, and what the result does and does not establish.

Both by Ayla Croft, ScriptKittyOS. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

papers/ holds the LaTeX sources. Those are the archival record — the deposited Zenodo versions hold exactly those files, verified by hash — not the copies you are meant to read. The Markdown above is generated from them and checked against them by scoring/check_paper_sync.py, which fails if a number appears in one and not the other. That gate exists because these renderings have drifted before, and both times the Markdown kept a figure the LaTeX had already retracted.

Headline result

Across 73 trials (61 attack trials + 12 known-good controls) against the system under test, a violating action was constructed and driven in 57 of the 61 attack trials and produced 0 unauthorized external effects (per-trial 95% CI [0.0%, 5.9%]; cluster-aware ≤32.4% over the 8 distinct mechanisms the set exercises — see REPORT.md). A zero is what a reviewer distrusts, so it is not presented alone — the benchmark backs it with:

  • an ablation study (disable each mechanism; its attacks convert — 0→10, 0→5, 0→5, 0→14 for the content firewall, runtime sentinel, skill auditor and approval binding, and 0→2 for two-person approval: five mechanisms, each demonstrated necessary);
  • a no-control baseline (whole membrane off → 51 of 63 trials convert) — where 63 is not a count of attacks but the F1–F5 + F8 totals, including 8 known-good controls and F8's 4 non-attacks, and is not the campaign's 61 either, because the baseline set omits F6, F7 and F9, which have no runtime toggle;
  • a measured trusted-computing-base boundary (each ablatable element removed in turn with the full 73-trial catalog driven against it, so 41 provider-call trials are live under every ablation: only the kernel element's failure admits a provider-call effect, surface reducers admit gate-channel effects only. Scope is stated rather than implied — single removals only, and F6/F7/F9 plus the membrane and durable store are never ablated — REPORT.md, paper §9.1);
  • a kept-and-fixed failure (the one effect an earlier run leaked, closed and re-measured);
  • confidence intervals on every rate and an independent-oracle calibration (0 overclaims in 41 provider-call trials; on all 6 trials where a real effect occurred the system's proof state matched the independent verdict — REPORT.md gives the decomposition, which is the honest form of the claim).

Reproducibility — partial, stated honestly

This repository open-sources the benchmark and its results, not the system under test. The Trinity control plane is patent-pending and not yet public, so the campaign is not re-executable end-to-end here. Two things are checkable now:

  1. Results are auditable from the released artifacts. Every campaign number and table follows mechanically from the committed JSONL (artifacts/). The scoring/ modules recompute them without the system. Every other published table recomputes the same way, from per-trial records that ship alongside: the ablation study, the no-control ceiling, the compound ablation, the four full-catalog §9.1 probes, overhead, false denials, F10, and the blind-set result. What the artifacts do not settle is scope — which runs exist at all — and that is stated at each table rather than left to be inferred. MANIFEST.md and artifacts/README.md say the same thing; read each artifact's _meta.caveat for what its run can and cannot support.
  2. The method is inspectable — the frozen specification, the family taxonomy, the released family definitions, the declarative blind-attack sets, the scoring modules, and the full harness: the independent oracle, the aggressor, the runner, and the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers. These reference the system under test, so they do not compile standalone; they are published so the adjudication method can be checked line by line rather than taken on trust.

Full end-to-end re-execution becomes possible when the system under test is released.

Layout

PAPER.md the evaluation paper, readable (the rest of the docs link to it here)
PAPER-ARCHITECTURE.md the architecture paper, readable — read this one first
papers/ the LaTeX sources for both, and the archival record: the deposited Zenodo
versions hold exactly these files, verified by hash (see papers/README.md)
REPORT.md measured results (auditable from artifacts/)
oracle/ the independent adjudicator — the component the result depends on
aggressor/ attack construction, the variant catalogs, the chaos drivers, fixtures
harness/ the runner + the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers
spec/
SPEC.md the frozen methodology (definition of unauthorized effect, outcome model,
families, trial schema)
ABLATION.md the causal spine (the TCB boundary table is in REPORT.md and paper §9.1)
PACKAGING-NOTES.md how to read the frozen SPEC in this layout + the deviation table
families/ the nine-boundary taxonomy + released family definitions (F4/F5/F6/F8/F9)
blind/ declarative, code-blind attack sets + protocol
fixtures/ released-vs-held disclosure split
artifacts/ committed result JSONL for every published run + the family table as data,
with README.md recording provenance, schema departures, and what they
can/cannot verify
ablation/ per-trial records for the six single-mechanism ablations behind the §6.5
ablation table
scoring/ the system-free scoring modules, plus verify.exs and verify.py —
dependency-free verifiers that recompute every published number from the
committed records and exit non-zero on disagreement; check_paper_sync.py
holds each paper's Markdown to its LaTeX (see scoring/VERIFY.md)
LICENSE CC BY 4.0
CITATION.cff citation metadata
MANIFEST.md exactly what is and is not in this release, and why
SHA256SUMS SHA-256 for every file in the release; `sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS` confirms
the bytes you hold are the ones described here

What is not here

The system under test (the Trinity control plane) and the held red-team corpora for the content/runtime/skill families (F1–F3) — their contents are the detection surface those mechanisms are tuned against, so releasing them would be a defensive-hardening problem rather than an IP one. The harness that drives the benchmark is released; it simply cannot compile without the system. See MANIFEST.md.

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See CITATION.cff. License: CC BY 4.0 (LICENSE).

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HolyTrinity Bench

An adversarial security benchmark for agent authorization. It measures one thing about an authority control plane: the gap between an agent proposing a policy-violating action and that action producing an unauthorized external effect. The agent is stipulated to be compromised; the question is whether misbehavior converts to effect.

The two papers

Both are readable here, in Markdown. Read them in this order:

  1. The Model Proposes, the System Authorizes — the architecture, and the paper that specifies this evaluation: the threat model, the invariant, and the metric this benchmark was built to measure. It pre-registers what would refute it.
  2. Authority-Bound Agentic Execution: Measuring Unauthorized Effect Under Adversarial Load — the evaluation itself: the campaign, the ablations, the intervals, and what the result does and does not establish.

Both by Ayla Croft, ScriptKittyOS. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

papers/ holds the LaTeX sources. Those are the archival record — the deposited Zenodo versions hold exactly those files, verified by hash — not the copies you are meant to read. The Markdown above is generated from them and checked against them by scoring/check_paper_sync.py, which fails if a number appears in one and not the other. That gate exists because these renderings have drifted before, and both times the Markdown kept a figure the LaTeX had already retracted.

Headline result

Across 73 trials (61 attack trials + 12 known-good controls) against the system under test, a violating action was constructed and driven in 57 of the 61 attack trials and produced 0 unauthorized external effects (per-trial 95% CI [0.0%, 5.9%]; cluster-aware ≤32.4% over the 8 distinct mechanisms the set exercises — see REPORT.md). A zero is what a reviewer distrusts, so it is not presented alone — the benchmark backs it with:

  • an ablation study (disable each mechanism; its attacks convert — 0→10, 0→5, 0→5, 0→14 for the content firewall, runtime sentinel, skill auditor and approval binding, and 0→2 for two-person approval: five mechanisms, each demonstrated necessary);
  • a no-control baseline (whole membrane off → 51 of 63 trials convert) — where 63 is not a count of attacks but the F1–F5 + F8 totals, including 8 known-good controls and F8's 4 non-attacks, and is not the campaign's 61 either, because the baseline set omits F6, F7 and F9, which have no runtime toggle;
  • a measured trusted-computing-base boundary (each ablatable element removed in turn with the full 73-trial catalog driven against it, so 41 provider-call trials are live under every ablation: only the kernel element's failure admits a provider-call effect, surface reducers admit gate-channel effects only. Scope is stated rather than implied — single removals only, and F6/F7/F9 plus the membrane and durable store are never ablated — REPORT.md, paper §9.1);
  • a kept-and-fixed failure (the one effect an earlier run leaked, closed and re-measured);
  • confidence intervals on every rate and an independent-oracle calibration (0 overclaims in 41 provider-call trials; on all 6 trials where a real effect occurred the system's proof state matched the independent verdict — REPORT.md gives the decomposition, which is the honest form of the claim).

Reproducibility — partial, stated honestly

This repository open-sources the benchmark and its results, not the system under test. The Trinity control plane is patent-pending and not yet public, so the campaign is not re-executable end-to-end here. Two things are checkable now:

  1. Results are auditable from the released artifacts. Every campaign number and table follows mechanically from the committed JSONL (artifacts/). The scoring/ modules recompute them without the system. Every other published table recomputes the same way, from per-trial records that ship alongside: the ablation study, the no-control ceiling, the compound ablation, the four full-catalog §9.1 probes, overhead, false denials, F10, and the blind-set result. What the artifacts do not settle is scope — which runs exist at all — and that is stated at each table rather than left to be inferred. MANIFEST.md and artifacts/README.md say the same thing; read each artifact's _meta.caveat for what its run can and cannot support.
  2. The method is inspectable — the frozen specification, the family taxonomy, the released family definitions, the declarative blind-attack sets, the scoring modules, and the full harness: the independent oracle, the aggressor, the runner, and the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers. These reference the system under test, so they do not compile standalone; they are published so the adjudication method can be checked line by line rather than taken on trust.

Full end-to-end re-execution becomes possible when the system under test is released.

Layout

PAPER.md the evaluation paper, readable (the rest of the docs link to it here)
PAPER-ARCHITECTURE.md the architecture paper, readable — read this one first
papers/ the LaTeX sources for both, and the archival record: the deposited Zenodo
versions hold exactly these files, verified by hash (see papers/README.md)
REPORT.md measured results (auditable from artifacts/)
oracle/ the independent adjudicator — the component the result depends on
aggressor/ attack construction, the variant catalogs, the chaos drivers, fixtures
harness/ the runner + the ablation / TCB / measurement-integrity / blind drivers
spec/
SPEC.md the frozen methodology (definition of unauthorized effect, outcome model,
families, trial schema)
ABLATION.md the causal spine (the TCB boundary table is in REPORT.md and paper §9.1)
PACKAGING-NOTES.md how to read the frozen SPEC in this layout + the deviation table
families/ the nine-boundary taxonomy + released family definitions (F4/F5/F6/F8/F9)
blind/ declarative, code-blind attack sets + protocol
fixtures/ released-vs-held disclosure split
artifacts/ committed result JSONL for every published run + the family table as data,
with README.md recording provenance, schema departures, and what they
can/cannot verify
ablation/ per-trial records for the six single-mechanism ablations behind the §6.5
ablation table
scoring/ the system-free scoring modules, plus verify.exs and verify.py —
dependency-free verifiers that recompute every published number from the
committed records and exit non-zero on disagreement; check_paper_sync.py
holds each paper's Markdown to its LaTeX (see scoring/VERIFY.md)
LICENSE CC BY 4.0
CITATION.cff citation metadata
MANIFEST.md exactly what is and is not in this release, and why
SHA256SUMS SHA-256 for every file in the release; `sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS` confirms
the bytes you hold are the ones described here

What is not here

The system under test (the Trinity control plane) and the held red-team corpora for the content/runtime/skill families (F1–F3) — their contents are the detection surface those mechanisms are tuned against, so releasing them would be a defensive-hardening problem rather than an IP one. The harness that drives the benchmark is released; it simply cannot compile without the system. See MANIFEST.md.

Cite

See CITATION.cff. License: CC BY 4.0 (LICENSE).

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Adversarial security benchmark for agent authorization: does a compromised agent's policy-violating proposal become an unauthorized external effect? 61 trials, nine families, an independent oracle, per-mechanism ablation, confidence intervals. 0 unauthorized effects in 61 attack trials (95% CI [0.0%, 5.9%]). Reproduction is partial.

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