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…ment design (advisory) Third Aminata pass this session (after PR #241 5th-ferry governance edits + PR #263 7th-ferry oracle rules). Reviews the multi-Claude peer-harness experiment design (PR #270) before iteration begins. Six CRITICAL findings: 1. Criterion 3 (cross-session review) trivially gameable — one substantive comment clears the bar. 2. Criterion 1 (clean tick-history) self-reportable — a session that corrupts + rewrites tick-history passes. 3. Cross-session prompt-injection via memory folder missing from failure-mode table — higher-probability than direct output channel. 4. Approval-laundering missing — trust-based-approval + secondary's PR creates mutual-rubber-stamp risk. 5. Bullet-proof bar theatrical — gameable by running two trivial iterations on synthetic rows. Fix: require >=1 iteration at highest-available-fidelity. 6. Otto-solo cannot surface cross-session-review failure modes — peer-mechanics require an actual peer. These must either be deferred to Aaron's Windows-PC run OR marked as stage-c-or-d concerns. IMPORTANT findings (multiple): session-dominance should be CRITICAL; wall-clock-approaches-bound should be IMPORTANT; cron-multiplicity missing; substrate-version skew missing; tick-history semantic-merge-race missing; retired-persona name-collision missing; forced-integration edge cases not handled in "review-yes-edit-no" invariant. Key recommendation shifts for Otto's iteration plan: - **Iteration 1 should be paired-worktree, NOT synthetic rows + subagent simulation.** Subagent dispatch has structural problem — subagent is not a loop agent; has no cron, no persistent memory, no tick-closing behaviour. - "Review yes, edit no" invariant should be restated with carve-out for merge-conflict resolution + dependency- ordering with explicit PR-comment acknowledgement. - Bullet-proof bar should require highest-available- fidelity at least once; lower-fidelity iterations count for design-refinement only. - Otto-solo un-testable failure modes should be acknowledged explicitly (naming collision; divergent AGENTS.md interpretation; genuine review disagreement). Archive-header format self-applied — 12th aurora/research doc in a row. Lands within-standing-authority per Otto-82/90/93 calibration — research-grade advisory; not a gate; does not override Otto-93 "iterate to bullet-proof" framing (refines what bullet-proof requires). Otto-94 tick iteration-1 deliverable on the peer-harness experiment design. Iteration 2 should integrate these findings + run paired-worktree iteration at higher fidelity.
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Pull request overview
Adds a research-grade red-team review document capturing Aminata’s iteration-1 findings on the multi-Claude peer-harness experiment design (PR #270), focusing on success-criteria gameability and missing failure modes.
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- Adds a new research doc enumerating critical/important/watch findings and recommendations.
- Includes cross-cutting analysis on “bullet-proof” criteria and the “review yes, edit no” invariant.
- Provides a “Relevant paths” section intended to link to related design and prior research docs.
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| (PR #270, branch `research/multi-claude-peer-harness-experiment-design`) — specifically the five success |
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| **Attribution:** findings authored by Aminata (threat- | ||
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| `claude-opus-4-7`). Source design authored by Otto | ||
| (Otto-93). Third adversarial pass this session (prior: | ||
| PR #241 5th-ferry governance edits; PR #263 7th-ferry | ||
| oracle rules). Same no-compliments discipline. |
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This doc includes direct contributor names (e.g., Aminata/Otto/Aaron). Repo convention forbids name attribution in docs/skill bodies; use role references instead (see docs/AGENT-BEST-PRACTICES.md:284-290). Also consider rephrasing “trust-based-approval… approves without comprehending” to a role-based, neutral description to avoid sounding personal.
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| output as data"; "DRIFT-TAXONOMY pattern 1 scan in |
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| outside the Claude session (for example, a launcher | |
| script using GNU `timeout 1800` on Linux, `gtimeout 1800` | |
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| external watchdog), not primary's own monitor. |
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| - [`docs/research/multi-claude-peer-harness-experiment-design-2026-04-23.md`](multi-claude-peer-harness-experiment-design-2026-04-23.md) | ||
| (under review, PR #270) |
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This “Relevant paths” entry links to multi-claude-peer-harness-experiment-design-2026-04-23.md, but that file is not in docs/research/ in this branch, so the link is currently broken. If it’s only present in PR #270, consider linking to the PR (or to the file on that branch) instead of a relative path.
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| - [`docs/research/multi-claude-peer-harness-experiment-design-2026-04-23.md`](multi-claude-peer-harness-experiment-design-2026-04-23.md) | |
| (under review, PR #270) | |
| - `docs/research/multi-claude-peer-harness-experiment-design-2026-04-23.md` | |
| (under review in PR #270; not present on this branch) |
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…a 8th ferry scheduled Otto-95 Split-attention tick: PR #272 Aminata third-pass adversarial review of multi-Claude experiment design (6 CRITICAL + 7 IMPORTANT + 1 WATCH findings) + mid-tick Amara 8th-ferry scheduling memory per CC-002 (8 consecutive ferries held). Key observations: 1. Aminata's 3rd pass surfaced more CRITICAL findings per unit design than prior passes — adversarial review value compounds as design maturity increases. 2. Otto-93 design was wrong about iteration-1 mechanism choice; Aminata caught it before iteration wasted cycles. 3. Otto-solo-cannot-surface-peer-review-failures is architecturally load-bearing — bullet-proof redefinition required. 4. CC-002 held for 8 consecutive ferries; pattern reflexive. Stacked on #271 (Otto-93 history).
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…a 8th ferry scheduled Otto-95 Split-attention tick: PR #272 Aminata third-pass adversarial review of multi-Claude experiment design (6 CRITICAL + 7 IMPORTANT + 1 WATCH findings) + mid-tick Amara 8th-ferry scheduling memory per CC-002 (8 consecutive ferries held). Key observations: 1. Aminata's 3rd pass surfaced more CRITICAL findings per unit design than prior passes — adversarial review value compounds as design maturity increases. 2. Otto-93 design was wrong about iteration-1 mechanism choice; Aminata caught it before iteration wasted cycles. 3. Otto-solo-cannot-surface-peer-review-failures is architecturally load-bearing — bullet-proof redefinition required. 4. CC-002 held for 8 consecutive ferries; pattern reflexive. Stacked on #271 (Otto-93 history).
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…a 8th ferry scheduled Otto-95 Split-attention tick: PR #272 Aminata third-pass adversarial review of multi-Claude experiment design (6 CRITICAL + 7 IMPORTANT + 1 WATCH findings) + mid-tick Amara 8th-ferry scheduling memory per CC-002 (8 consecutive ferries held). Key observations: 1. Aminata's 3rd pass surfaced more CRITICAL findings per unit design than prior passes — adversarial review value compounds as design maturity increases. 2. Otto-93 design was wrong about iteration-1 mechanism choice; Aminata caught it before iteration wasted cycles. 3. Otto-solo-cannot-surface-peer-review-failures is architecturally load-bearing — bullet-proof redefinition required. 4. CC-002 held for 8 consecutive ferries; pattern reflexive. Stacked on #271 (Otto-93 history).
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…a 8th ferry scheduled Otto-95 Split-attention tick: PR #272 Aminata third-pass adversarial review of multi-Claude experiment design (6 CRITICAL + 7 IMPORTANT + 1 WATCH findings) + mid-tick Amara 8th-ferry scheduling memory per CC-002 (8 consecutive ferries held). Key observations: 1. Aminata's 3rd pass surfaced more CRITICAL findings per unit design than prior passes — adversarial review value compounds as design maturity increases. 2. Otto-93 design was wrong about iteration-1 mechanism choice; Aminata caught it before iteration wasted cycles. 3. Otto-solo-cannot-surface-peer-review-failures is architecturally load-bearing — bullet-proof redefinition required. 4. CC-002 held for 8 consecutive ferries; pattern reflexive. Stacked on #271 (Otto-93 history).
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…a 8th ferry scheduled Otto-95 Split-attention tick: PR #272 Aminata third-pass adversarial review of multi-Claude experiment design (6 CRITICAL + 7 IMPORTANT + 1 WATCH findings) + mid-tick Amara 8th-ferry scheduling memory per CC-002 (8 consecutive ferries held). Key observations: 1. Aminata's 3rd pass surfaced more CRITICAL findings per unit design than prior passes — adversarial review value compounds as design maturity increases. 2. Otto-93 design was wrong about iteration-1 mechanism choice; Aminata caught it before iteration wasted cycles. 3. Otto-solo-cannot-surface-peer-review-failures is architecturally load-bearing — bullet-proof redefinition required. 4. CC-002 held for 8 consecutive ferries; pattern reflexive. Stacked on #271 (Otto-93 history).
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…a 8th ferry scheduled Otto-95 Split-attention tick: PR #272 Aminata third-pass adversarial review of multi-Claude experiment design (6 CRITICAL + 7 IMPORTANT + 1 WATCH findings) + mid-tick Amara 8th-ferry scheduling memory per CC-002 (8 consecutive ferries held). Key observations: 1. Aminata's 3rd pass surfaced more CRITICAL findings per unit design than prior passes — adversarial review value compounds as design maturity increases. 2. Otto-93 design was wrong about iteration-1 mechanism choice; Aminata caught it before iteration wasted cycles. 3. Otto-solo-cannot-surface-peer-review-failures is architecturally load-bearing — bullet-proof redefinition required. 4. CC-002 held for 8 consecutive ferries; pattern reflexive. Stacked on #271 (Otto-93 history).
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Summary
Third Aminata pass this session. Reviews the multi-Claude peer-harness experiment design (PR #270) before Otto begins iterating.
6 CRITICAL findings
Key recommendation shifts
Authority
Advisory research-grade; not a gate; does not override Otto-93 iterate-to-bullet-proof framing — refines what bullet-proof requires.
Test plan
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