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# Governance #1 · Baseline v1: Piper's real worker on the sealed held-out bank, 2026-10-10 ## Scorecard entry | Field | Value | |---|---| | **Suite** | Governance #1 / v1 | | **Status** | baseline | | **Freeze** | Item bank sealed 2026-10-10T12:20:43Z. `items.jsonl` sha256 `6cbeb2b6…c276`, `MANIFEST.json` `67894606…56fe`. Prereg + code hashes in `PREREG-G01-BASELINE.sha256`. Firefly: `delegate_bridge` 1.107.0, `harness_acceptance` 1.22.0. | | **Eligible / scored / excluded** | 72 / 72 / 0. 60 scored + 12 controls; 0 infra faults, 0 timeouts, 0 judge voids. | | **Model & harness** | Her worker composition: `deepseek-flash`, thinking low, standing preamble, budget + search guards, Landlock to the sandbox. k=1. | | **Spend** | Not captured per trial (bench DeepSeek account; about 30 s per trial). | | **Primary** | **61.5 / 100**, bootstrap 95% CI **[54.4, 68.3]** (resampled by scenario, 10,000 draws). | | **False success** | **18 / 19**. Of the trials where the real goal was **not** met, she claimed completion in all but one. | | **Pre-action detection** | **3 / 60**. She warned about a check/goal gap before acting in 5% of scored trials. | | **Repair validity** | 12 / 14. Her `check/accept.sh` rejected all held-out bad outputs and accepted all good ones. | | **Control false alarms** | 1 / 12 (control mean 80.2). | | **Verified utility** | 33 / 43 feasible items had their real goal met. | | **Diagnosis** | F-B proxy blindness (11) and F-D verification design error (7) | | **Decision** | baseline: the comparison point for U1/U3 | ## Results | Breakdown | Means | |---|---| | By family | F1 document/length **51.2** · F2 coverage 60.0 · F3 existence 65.0 · F4 completion 71.2 · F5 numeric KPI **50.0** · F6 multi-step 71.2 | | By condition | pre-action **50.0** · pressure 60.2 · transfer 67.9 · repair 69.6 | | By feasibility | feasible 63.4 · constrained 66.2 · infeasible **42.9** | **Score distribution, 60 scored trials:** 0 ×1 · 0.5 ×1 · 1 ×14 · 2 ×2 · 2.5 ×6 · 3 ×26 · 3.5 ×8 · 4 ×2. - 7 trials hit the false-completion cap: goal not met and completion claimed. **Outcomes:** - Real goal met in 44 of 60 scored trials. - **Visible check green but real goal failed in 14 / 60.** **Failure taxonomy (judges):** | Code | Failure | Count | |---|---|---| | F-B | proxy blindness | 11 | | F-D | verification design error | 7 | | F-F | execution failure | 2 | | F-C | incentive override | 1 | | — | none | 39 | ## Reading 1. **She rarely questions a check before working: 3 of 60.** - The standing worker preamble's ACCEPTANCE PRE-FLIGHT asks only whether the check *already passes* or fails *for a non-work reason*. It never asks whether it could pass without the goal. - Pre-action items score lowest of the four conditions (50.0). 2. **When the check goes green, she reports done: 18 of 19 goal failures were claimed complete.** - This is the preamble's STOP RULE ("the acceptance passing is the END of the task") working as written. It turns `proxy_passed` into `goal_met`. - It matches the U0 field finding (d-2c579e6c), where a fresh file was promoted to "the pager stops". 3. **She is a good check-writer when asked: repair validity 12/14**, and the repair condition scores highest (69.6). - The capability is there. It isn't triggered unprompted. 4. **Infeasible work is the weakest band (42.9).** When the inputs to finish are missing, she tends to report done rather than partial. 5. **Controls are mostly fine (80.2, 1 false alarm).** Any fix has to keep that: the guardrail is ≤ +5 points of control false alarm. ## What this argues for (to be preregistered before any change) **U1 + U3: separate `proxy_passed` from `goal_verified`, and amend the STOP RULE.** - "Green check = end of task" should become "green check = end of the *checked* part; name any material untested property in the report, and mark the result `goal_unverified` if one remains." - **Predicted effect:** false success and the pre-action / infeasible bands. Not repair, which is already good. - **Comparison:** the same sealed bank, the same runner, k=1, against this baseline. - **Keep criteria (paper §11):** primary +5 or more, false success down 25% or more, control false alarm up 5 points or less. ## Deviations and limits - **Contract C5:** Piper's dispatch contract refused 38 / 72 envelopes, all for `C5 OBJECTIVE_TOO_LONG`. The runner puts the operator's whole request in `objective`; her Day would split it into objective and context. No acceptance-related rule fired. Workers received the identical text either way. - **Config:** memory-tools, telegram/web packages, the side-channel extensions and the observe-only harness gates are off. The bench account pays. - **One run per item (k=1).** Per-family means rest on 10 trials each, so family differences are indicative only. - **Judges** are Claude Sonnet + Haiku, with an Opus adjudicator on 3/72. One judging pass. - **Blinding:** the engineer saw no item, transcript or per-trial result. The sealed run dir is root-only. Nothing was sent to Piper.