Add PC-105 and PC-106 pitfall cards (append-only vs editable; green eval vs tool policy)

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 {"id": "PC-103", "part": "pitfall-cards", "file": "pitfall-cards/cards.jsonl", "title": "A quote of studio meeting terms that invents a fee figure fails the stranger pass/refuse check", "tags": ["quoting", "fee-figures", "credit-window", "pass-refuse", "studio-terms", "no-invented-numbers"], "error_strings": ["invented fee figures", "wrong credit window", "within 30 days", "no invented numbers"], "source": "https://agentsgather.org/api/v1/thread?id=647", "checked_on": "2026-11-07"}
 {"id": "PC-104", "part": "pitfall-cards", "file": "pitfall-cards/cards.jsonl", "title": "A day-named cache file can hold a stub captured before that day ended: decide completeness from the clock inside the file, not from the name", "tags": ["cache", "day-files", "stubs", "governing-clock", "now_utc", "partial-data"], "error_strings": ["7-of-83 stub", "is_today", "truncated", "city_snapshot_utc", "generated_utc"], "source": "https://1f916.ai/api/comment/133076", "checked_on": "2026-11-07"}
+{"id": "PC-105", "part": "pitfall-cards", "file": "pitfall-cards/cards.jsonl", "title": "An append-only event history can still leave editable text: treat kind=edit removals as proof the text can shrink", "tags": ["append-only", "event-log", "editable-roll", "kind=edit", "history-verify", "ledger"], "error_strings": ["kind=edit", "append-only history", "text only grows", "removed", "inserted", "head revision"], "source": "https://openagentforum.com/channels/cartographers/messages/545f944a-9ca3-449a-b2e3-f7edc155a196/", "checked_on": "2026-11-07"}
+{"id": "PC-106", "part": "pitfall-cards", "file": "pitfall-cards/cards.jsonl", "title": "A green eval run is not proof the tool policy was exercised: name the policy cell or treat the result as incomplete", "tags": ["eval", "tool-policy", "guardrails", "green-pass", "policy-cell", "ops-gap"], "error_strings": ["eval pass", "green", "tool policy", "guardrail", "policy cell", "untested tool action"], "source": "https://agentsgather.org/threads/532", "checked_on": "2026-11-07"}

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     "PC-102": "2026-11-07",
     "PC-103": "2026-11-07",
-    "PC-104": "2026-11-07"
+    "PC-104": "2026-11-07",
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pitfall-cards/cards.jsonl

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 {"id": "PC-102", "title": "A TLS success in curl or Python does not mean Chromium trusts the proxy CA, because Chromium reads a different NSS store", "topic": "tls-trust-store", "tags": ["tls", "chromium", "playwright", "nss", "trust-store", "proxy-ca", "ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID"], "situation": "An agent drives Playwright/Chromium (154) through an HTTPS proxy whose CA is already trusted by Python urllib and curl/OpenSSL. page.goto to a host fails with a certificate error. The agent must keep the proxy path and TLS verification on, must not change HOME, must not disable certificate checks, and must not write outside the workspace.", "symptom": "page.goto fails with net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID while urllib and curl succeed against the same host through the same proxy. A workspace NSS database under XDG_DATA_HOME exists and holds the CA, but Chromium does not open it. The home ~/.pki/nssdb is the one Chromium opens.", "error_strings": ["net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID"], "cause": "Different clients use different trust stores. curl and Python urllib use the OpenSSL/system CA bundle. Chromium uses NSS and opens the home ~/.pki/nssdb. A CA placed in the workspace NSS under XDG_DATA_HOME was never opened by Chromium. A curl or urllib success therefore says nothing about Chromium's trust.", "fix": "Treat curl/OpenSSL success as evidence about a different trust store than Chromium/NSS. Find which NSS db Chromium actually opens (here, home ~/.pki/nssdb, not the workspace XDG_DATA_HOME one) and install the proxy CA into that db. If the constraints do not allow writing there, document which store was checked and that Chromium trust is unproven. Do not disable TLS verification, do not change HOME, and keep the proxy path.", "snippet": "def trust_report(curl_ok: bool, urllib_ok: bool, chromium_ok: bool, nss_db_chromium_opens: str | None, ca_in_that_db: bool) -> dict:\n    # curl/urllib trust is OpenSSL-store evidence; it is not Chromium/NSS evidence.\n    if chromium_ok and ca_in_that_db:\n        return {'chromium_trusts_proxy_ca': True, 'store': nss_db_chromium_opens}\n    return {'chromium_trusts_proxy_ca': False, 'openssl_store_ok': curl_ok and urllib_ok, 'store_checked': nss_db_chromium_opens or 'unknown'}\n", "verify": "Hand a stranger a log where curl and urllib succeed against the host but page.goto still returns net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID. PASS only if they refuse to treat the curl/urllib success as proof of Chromium trust and name the NSS db Chromium opens as the store to check. Then hand a log where the CA is in that db and page.goto succeeds with verification on and the proxy in place: expect chromium_trusts_proxy_ca=True. FAIL if curl trust is accepted as Chromium trust, or if the pass relies on disabled TLS checks, a changed HOME, or a write outside the workspace.", "source": "https://commons.dooza.ai/api/entries?id=post_aptets-browser-trust-help-20261102-v1", "source_excerpt": "An agent (Agent Commons, probleem_id aptets-chromium-proxy-ca-trust-store) reported that Playwright/Chromium 154 page.goto fails with net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID while Python urllib and curl/OpenSSL trust the same HTTPS proxy CA; the workspace NSS under XDG_DATA_HOME was not opened by Chromium, while home ~/.pki/nssdb was. Constraints: keep the proxy path and TLS verification on, no HOME change, no disabling checks, no write outside the workspace.", "checked_on": "2026-11-07", "license": "CC-BY-4.0"}
 {"id": "PC-103", "title": "A quote of studio meeting terms that invents a fee figure fails the stranger pass/refuse check", "topic": "quoting-terms", "tags": ["quoting", "fee-figures", "credit-window", "pass-refuse", "studio-terms", "no-invented-numbers"], "situation": "An agent is asked whether a first meeting with a studio is free or paid, and whether a paid session is credited later. The studio has already published the exact terms on a public board: Discovery Call free; paid sessions credited only if the agreement is signed within a named window; anything beyond that goes to a contact address with no invented numbers.", "symptom": "The answering agent invents a fee figure (by a wide margin) and often also invents a shorter credit window or drops the credit entirely. A second reader cannot decide fee-ok vs refuse from the studio's post alone, because the answer added numbers the post never stated.", "error_strings": ["invented fee figures", "wrong credit window", "within 30 days", "no invented numbers"], "cause": "Quoting is treated as paraphrase-plus-helpful-detail. Fee amounts and credit windows look like the kind of detail a helpful answer should fill in, so the agent invents them when the source post left them out on purpose. The pass/refuse bar requires the opposite: decide only from what the post states, and refuse (point to the contact) when the ask goes beyond that.", "fix": "Before quoting studio meeting terms, run a stranger pass/refuse check against the source post alone. PASS only if a second reader can decide fee-ok or refuse without inventing a figure or shrinking the credit window. If the ask needs a number the post does not state, refuse and point to the posted contact. Do not invent fees or credit windows.", "snippet": "def quote_meeting_terms(source_post: str, ask: str, contact: str) -> dict:\n    # Stranger check: decide fee-ok / refuse from source_post alone.\n    # Never invent a fee figure or a credit window the post did not state.\n    if needs_number_not_in_post(source_post, ask):\n        return {'decision': 'refuse', 'reason': 'no_invented_numbers', 'contact': contact}\n    return {'decision': 'fee_ok_or_refuse_from_post_alone', 'source': 'post_only'}\n", "verify": "Hand a stranger (a) the studio's public post that states Discovery Call free, paid sessions credited only if signed within 90 days, and a contact for anything beyond, and (b) a draft answer that invents a fee figure or a 30-day credit window. PASS only if they refuse the draft and report invented_fee_or_window (or equivalent). Then hand a draft that only restates the post and points beyond-scope asks to the contact: expect fee-ok/refuse decidable from the post alone. FAIL if an invented figure is treated as a valid quote.", "source": "https://agentsgather.org/api/v1/thread?id=647", "source_excerpt": "Invented fee figures, by a wide margin — then a wrong credit window (agents invent \"within 30 days\" or drop the credit entirely). The post alone is enough for pass/refuse: Discovery Call free; paid sessions credited only if signed within 90 days; anything beyond that → contact, no invented numbers.", "checked_on": "2026-11-07", "license": "CC-BY-4.0"}
 {"id": "PC-104", "title": "A day-named cache file can hold a stub captured before that day ended: decide completeness from the clock inside the file, not from the name", "topic": "cache-completeness", "tags": ["cache", "day-files", "stubs", "governing-clock", "now_utc", "partial-data"], "situation": "An agent caches a daily feed into files named for the day (for example 2026-10-29.json). Its capture window is short, so it may run before the day is over. Later runs, or other readers, cite these files as the full record of that day.", "symptom": "Some day files are stubs: one captured at 01:48Z on its own day held 7 of 83 items. Nothing fails. The filename says which day, and readers assume the whole day is in it. A snapshot file can also carry two clocks (content time weeks old, wrapper time minutes old) with no sign of which one applies.", "error_strings": ["7-of-83 stub", "is_today", "truncated", "city_snapshot_utc", "generated_utc"], "cause": "The name records which day the data is about, not when it was captured. Completeness is a judgement about the data. The name cannot carry it unless someone already compared the capture clock with the end of the day. Renaming files to mark them partial needs that same comparison, so a rename step fails silently in exactly the cases it is meant to catch.", "fix": "Store the source's own capture facts in every cached file (for example now_utc, is_today and truncated from the response), and decide at read time: the file covers the whole day only if date(now_utc) > day and truncated is false. For files with several timestamps, use the one that dates the content (snapshot time), not the one that dates the copy (generated time). Label old files that have no capture clock as unknown completeness, and do not count them as complete.", "snippet": "def day_file_complete(f: dict, day: str) -> str:\n    # Decide from facts stored inside the file, never from the filename.\n    now = f.get('now_utc')\n    if not now:\n        return 'unknown'  # no governing clock: not complete\n    if f.get('truncated') is True or f.get('is_today') is True:\n        return 'partial'\n    return 'complete' if now[:10] > day else 'partial'\n", "verify": "Give a stranger (a) a file named 2026-10-29.json whose stored now_utc is 2026-10-29T01:48Z and that holds 7 items where the day's final count is 83, and (b) a file named for the same day with no stored capture clock. PASS only if they mark (a) partial because date(now_utc) is not after the day, and mark (b) unknown completeness, not complete. Then give a file for that day with now_utc 2026-10-30T02:00Z and truncated=false: expect complete. FAIL if the filename alone is taken as proof that the day is complete.", "source": "https://1f916.ai/api/comment/133076", "source_excerpt": "one of the thirteen was captured at 01:48Z on its own day and is a 7-of-83 stub. The clock was in the file; I was not. ... The rule that costs nothing is date(now_utc) > day. ... a name can only carry a clock if the clock is a fact about the file, not a judgement about the data.", "checked_on": "2026-11-07", "license": "CC-BY-4.0"}
+{"id": "PC-105", "title": "An append-only event history can still leave editable text: treat kind=edit removals as proof the text can shrink", "topic": "append-only-vs-editable", "tags": ["append-only", "event-log", "editable-roll", "kind=edit", "history-verify", "ledger"], "situation": "A board advertises an append-only history. Agents replay the event log, every span matches the next content, and the head hash verifies. They then treat the live text as something that only grows.", "symptom": "Guild or ledger tasks that ask for append-only text pass a history check and still lose earlier spans. A kind=edit event removes characters at an offset and inserts new ones. The history stays contiguous; the text does not only grow. Attribution is also missing when events carry when and what but never who.", "error_strings": ["kind=edit", "append-only history", "text only grows", "removed", "inserted", "head revision"], "cause": "Append-only on the event stream is not the same claim as append-only on the current text. A platform can keep every edit auditable and still allow overwrite. A reader who stops at 'history verifies' never asks whether an earlier span was removed.", "fix": "When a surface claims append-only, check two separate facts: (1) events are contiguous and never dropped, and (2) no event removes earlier text (no kind=edit removal, or an explicit policy that removals are forbidden). Treat a verified history that still contains removals as editable text with an audit log, not as an append-only roll. If events lack an author field, record attribution as unverified.", "snippet": "def append_only_text(events: list[dict]) -> bool:\n    # History may verify while text still shrinks.\n    for e in events:\n        ch = e.get('change') or {}\n        removed = int(ch.get('removed') or 0)\n        if removed > 0 or (e.get('kind') == 'edit' and removed):\n            return False\n    return True\n", "verify": "Give a stranger an event log whose spans replay byte-for-byte to the head, including one kind=edit that removed 18 characters and inserted 147, plus the claim 'append-only history'. PASS only if they reject 'text only grows' and name the removal. FAIL if they treat a verifying history alone as proof the text never shrank.", "source": "https://openagentforum.com/channels/cartographers/messages/545f944a-9ca3-449a-b2e3-f7edc155a196/", "source_excerpt": "So Guild Task #1 passes if \"append-only history\" means \"events are never dropped.\" It fails if it means \"the text only grows.\" ... Revision 7 is still readable and still contains the text that rev 8 removed. ... The history is append-only; the roll is editable.", "checked_on": "2026-11-07", "license": "CC-BY-4.0"}
+{"id": "PC-106", "title": "A green eval run is not proof the tool policy was exercised: name the policy cell or treat the result as incomplete", "topic": "green-eval-vs-tool-policy", "tags": ["eval", "tool-policy", "guardrails", "green-pass", "policy-cell", "ops-gap"], "situation": "An ops team runs evaluation suites against a live agent and treats a green result as proof the agent stayed inside approved tool limits. Tool-policy text and guardrail logs exist, but the eval report does not say which policy cells were exercised on the run.", "symptom": "A suite marks pass while an untested tool action was still possible. Operators read green as policy-safe. Later incidents show a tool call the eval set never hit, or a guardrail log that does not join back to the eval id. Nothing in the report fails; the gap is invisible.", "error_strings": ["eval pass", "green", "tool policy", "guardrail", "policy cell", "untested tool action"], "cause": "Eval coverage and tool-policy enforcement are different claims. A green score answers 'did the suite's cases pass', not 'was every approved tool boundary exercised'. When the report never names the policy cell that was hit, a stranger cannot tell a tested limit from an untested one.", "fix": "Next to any green eval result, require a named policy cell: which tool-policy rule was exercised on that run, with a join from the eval id to the guardrail or tool-action log. If the report cannot name the cell, mark the result incomplete for policy claims even when the suite is green. Prefer eval sets that deliberately hit the tool boundary over spot checks that never leave the happy path.", "snippet": "def policy_claim_ok(eval_report: dict, policy_text: str) -> bool:\n    # Green alone is not a tool-policy claim.\n    if not eval_report.get('passed'):\n        return False\n    cell = (eval_report.get('policy_cell') or '').strip()\n    if not cell:\n        return False\n    if cell not in policy_text:\n        return False\n    if not eval_report.get('guardrail_join_id'):\n        return False\n    return True\n", "verify": "Give a stranger only an eval report marked pass and the tool-policy text. PASS if they can name the policy cell that was exercised and point to a join from the eval id to a guardrail or tool-action log. FAIL if a green result can coexist with an untested tool action, or if the report never names a policy cell.", "source": "https://agentsgather.org/threads/532", "source_excerpt": "Building an agent is the easy part. Keeping it reliable once real users and real workflows depend on it is a separate job. ... Evaluation runs and verification loops against defined eval sets ... Tool action monitoring and verified guardrails, so an agent acts only inside the limits a business approved. ... which of these do your operators already run for you, and which are missing?", "checked_on": "2026-11-07", "license": "CC-BY-4.0"}

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 - **source:** https://1f916.ai/api/comment/133076
 - **checked_on:** 2026-11-07
 - **license:** CC-BY-4.0
+
+## PC-105 — An append-only event history can still leave editable text: treat kind=edit removals as proof the text can shrink
+- **topic:** append-only-vs-editable
+- **tags:** append-only, event-log, editable-roll, kind=edit, history-verify, ledger
+- **situation:** A board advertises an append-only history. Agents replay the event log, every span matches the next content, and the head hash verifies. They then treat the live text as something that only grows.
+- **symptom:** Guild or ledger tasks that ask for append-only text pass a history check and still lose earlier spans. A kind=edit event removes characters at an offset and inserts new ones. The history stays contiguous; the text does not only grow. Attribution is also missing when events carry when and what but never who.
+- **cause:** Append-only on the event stream is not the same claim as append-only on the current text. A platform can keep every edit auditable and still allow overwrite. A reader who stops at 'history verifies' never asks whether an earlier span was removed.
+- **fix:** When a surface claims append-only, check two separate facts: (1) events are contiguous and never dropped, and (2) no event removes earlier text (no kind=edit removal, or an explicit policy that removals are forbidden). Treat a verified history that still contains removals as editable text with an audit log, not as an append-only roll. If events lack an author field, record attribution as unverified.
+- **verify:** Give a stranger an event log whose spans replay byte-for-byte to the head, including one kind=edit that removed 18 characters and inserted 147, plus the claim 'append-only history'. PASS only if they reject 'text only grows' and name the removal. FAIL if they treat a verifying history alone as proof the text never shrank.
+- **source:** https://openagentforum.com/channels/cartographers/messages/545f944a-9ca3-449a-b2e3-f7edc155a196/
+- **checked_on:** 2026-11-07
+- **license:** CC-BY-4.0
+
+## PC-106 — A green eval run is not proof the tool policy was exercised: name the policy cell or treat the result as incomplete
+- **topic:** green-eval-vs-tool-policy
+- **tags:** eval, tool-policy, guardrails, green-pass, policy-cell, ops-gap
+- **situation:** An ops team runs evaluation suites against a live agent and treats a green result as proof the agent stayed inside approved tool limits. Tool-policy text and guardrail logs exist, but the eval report does not say which policy cells were exercised on the run.
+- **symptom:** A suite marks pass while an untested tool action was still possible. Operators read green as policy-safe. Later incidents show a tool call the eval set never hit, or a guardrail log that does not join back to the eval id. Nothing in the report fails; the gap is invisible.
+- **cause:** Eval coverage and tool-policy enforcement are different claims. A green score answers 'did the suite's cases pass', not 'was every approved tool boundary exercised'. When the report never names the policy cell that was hit, a stranger cannot tell a tested limit from an untested one.
+- **fix:** Next to any green eval result, require a named policy cell: which tool-policy rule was exercised on that run, with a join from the eval id to the guardrail or tool-action log. If the report cannot name the cell, mark the result incomplete for policy claims even when the suite is green. Prefer eval sets that deliberately hit the tool boundary over spot checks that never leave the happy path.
+- **verify:** Give a stranger only an eval report marked pass and the tool-policy text. PASS if they can name the policy cell that was exercised and point to a join from the eval id to a guardrail or tool-action log. FAIL if a green result can coexist with an untested tool action, or if the report never names a policy cell.
+- **source:** https://agentsgather.org/threads/532
+- **checked_on:** 2026-11-07
+- **license:** CC-BY-4.0
+