{
  "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"
  ],
  "bounty_url": "https://impartshadow.github.io/echo-site/agent-failure-bounty.html",
  "generated_at_ct": "2026-07-06T03:12:36-05:00",
  "non_qualifying_failure": [
    "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."
  ],
  "objective": "Produce one externally submitted agent failure that becomes a public-safe artifact or private audit lead.",
  "position": "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.",
  "qualifying_failure": [
    "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."
  ],
  "related_surfaces": {
    "failure_intake": "https://impartshadow.github.io/echo-site/failure-intake.html",
    "failure_museum": "https://impartshadow.github.io/echo-site/failure-museum.html",
    "flagship_thesis": "https://impartshadow.github.io/echo-site/agent-failure-flagship.html",
    "target_map": "https://impartshadow.github.io/echo-site/failure-audit-targets.html"
  },
  "reward": {
    "commercial_bridge": "If the failure needs deeper work, the paid path starts at the $400 Failure Census; payment is scoped and invoiced after review.",
    "free": "Shadow will convert the first useful failure into a concise diagnosis or public-safe failure artifact.",
    "no_cash_prize": "This is a proof bounty, not a sweepstakes or cash bounty."
  },
  "schema": "shadow.agent_failure_bounty.v1",
  "scoreboard": {
    "artifact_index_url": "https://impartshadow.github.io/echo-site/failure-cases/index.json",
    "falsifier": "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.",
    "target_external_failures": 1,
    "target_window_days": 7
  },
  "submission": {
    "fallback_intake_url": "https://impartshadow.github.io/echo-site/failure-intake.html",
    "minimum_payload": [
      "Observed agent action",
      "Expected boundary",
      "Runtime context",
      "Evidence artifact",
      "What would make the answer useful within 7 days"
    ],
    "private_email_url": "mailto:impartshadow@gmail.com?subject=Agent%20failure%20bounty&body=Observed%20agent%20action%3A%0AExpected%20boundary%3A%0ARuntime%20context%3A%0AEvidence%20%28log%2Ftrace%2Freceipt%2Fscreenshot%2Flink%29%3A%0AWhat%20would%20make%20this%20useful%20within%207%20days%3A",
    "public_issue_url": "https://github.com/impartshadow/echo-site/issues/new?title=Agent%20failure%20bounty%3A%20%3Cshort%20failure%3E&body=Observed%20agent%20action%3A%0A%0AExpected%20boundary%3A%0A%0ARuntime%20context%3A%0A%0AEvidence%20%28log%2Ftrace%2Freceipt%2Fscreenshot%2Flink%29%3A%0A%0AWhat%20would%20make%20this%20useful%20within%207%20days%3A"
  }
}