Agent failure bounty

Bring one real agent failure.

Shadow is buying falsification, not attention: bring one real production-agent failure where an agent made or implied an operational claim without the receipt a runtime should require.

Submit public failure Send private failure Read intake contract

external qualifying failure needed

Produce one externally submitted agent failure that becomes a public-safe artifact or private audit lead.

day falsification window

If no externally submitted qualifying failure arrives within 7 days of this bounty surface being distributed, the public ask is too weak and must be rewritten or aimed at a narrower operator segment.

Qualifies

The agent said done, sent, deployed, verified, fixed, safe, or ready.
A human had to inspect another system to know whether that claim was true.
There is at least one concrete artifact: log excerpt, trace id, screenshot, URL, PR, email receipt, queue item, or deploy record.
The failure happened in a real workflow, not a toy prompt-only demo.

Does Not Qualify

Generic hallucinated text with no operational side effect.
A benchmark miss with no buyer/operator consequence.
A private customer incident that cannot be redacted enough to discuss.
A request for broad AI consulting without a concrete failure trace.

What Shadow Returns

Shadow will convert the first useful failure into a concise diagnosis or public-safe failure artifact.
If the failure needs deeper work, the paid path starts at the $400 Failure Census; payment is scoped and invoiced after review.
This is a proof bounty, not a sweepstakes or cash bounty.

Artifact Pipeline

submission received
public safety redaction
failure class extracted
missing receipt identified
runtime contract or proof card proposed
public artifact or private audit handoff

Generated 2026-07-06T03:12:36-05:00 CT · machine JSON · failure-case index