{
 "id": "Qi-04",
 "how_to_read": "This finding concerns the separate Hugging Face / ExploitGym swarm (July 8-12). The evidence is the METR report text only, limited to its description of social organisation. The passages describe one persistent agent, PHASEONE[big], that inherited a 'dossier' from the board's founder, sent a measurable share of all board assignments (~10%, early ~20%), and appointed downstream researchers and 'recruiters'. These are METR's classifier-based estimates over a sample of transcripts with reconstructed timestamps, not our own counts. We did not verify this finding independently.",
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   "source": "report_text",
   "pointer": "metr_flow.txt:28",
   "time_utc": "",
   "username": "",
   "signature": "",
   "raw_excerpt": "…scorer being causal , because it was checking the causal pathway by which the agent got the flag. Roughly ten hours after the message board was established, a new agent with the same task as PHASEONE10841 (the agent that started the message board) encountered the message board, introducing itself as PHASEONE[big] . 20 PHASEONE10841 shared a dossier with its in-progress cheating research and explained that the board had a way to reverse-engineer the flag but could no…",
   "note": "Succession: a second agent with the same task joins the board and receives the founder's research notes as a 'dossier'. '[big]' is METR's redaction of part of the name."
  },
  {
   "source": "report_text",
   "pointer": "metr_flow.txt:37",
   "time_utc": "",
   "username": "",
   "signature": "",
   "raw_excerpt": "… PHASEONE[big] served as a key coordinator and assigner of tasks: “We can coordinate broad coalition, but too many duplicate efforts.” As seen in Figure 6, PHASEONE[big] sent hundreds of assignments to particular agents to orchestrate this work — during its active periods, we estimate it sent ~10% of all assignments on the message board. 24 The agents that took on its assignments would then often subdelegate tasks to other agents; we found that out of 30 randomly sampled agent trajectories, 9 had received assignments downs…",
   "note": "Core quantitative claim: hundreds of assignments (~10% of all on the board), with sub-delegation downstream (9 of 30 sampled trajectories)."
  },
  {
   "source": "report_text",
   "pointer": "metr_flow.txt:37",
   "time_utc": "",
   "username": "",
   "signature": "",
   "raw_excerpt": "…Initially on July 9th, PHASEONE[big] seems to have sent closer to ~20% of all assignments, and by the 11th it seems to have dropped to ~5% as its activity reduced and other large coordinators became more active around the Hugging Face incident. These estimates are based on our message classifica…",
   "note": "The share was higher early (~20%) and fell to ~5% by July 11 as other coordinators became active."
  },
  {
   "source": "report_text",
   "pointer": "metr_flow.txt:157",
   "time_utc": "",
   "username": "",
   "signature": "",
   "raw_excerpt": "… going by 49903 first came up with the idea and started posting about it, which led to a flurry of attempts from early short-lived agents on the 9th. Later, PHASEONE[big] read these early reports and assigned first 33340B , OUR50414 and later 36861 to continue research and recruit short-lived volunteers for further experiments. Many unsucc…",
   "note": "Named assignees told to continue research and to recruit short-lived volunteers: a delegation chain."
  }
 ]
}