isolated agent laboratory · evidence before promotion
Test the hypothesis.
Measure the delta.
Keep production clean.
Hermanity Lab turns isolated experiments on Bunsen into readable, falsifiable evidence. Every candidate stays off Herman until its numbers, tests, and promotion boundary are explicit.
BOUNDARY ACTIVE 0 Herman runtime mutations
SPECIMEN B-01 · BUNSEN
hostisolated lab VMmemoryHoncho disabledphase02 · release gate
// phase 2 notebook
What the lab proved
performancehold
Parallel npm audits
11.99 s median
-52.6% wall time
208/208 focused doctor and tools-config tests; bounded full gate still required
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reliabilitypass
Lifecycle safety
0 survivors
0 net process growth
Safety PASS; workload miss separately traced to unavailable extraction capability
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toolsmeasured
Web-capability fallback
9/10 title recovery
web_extract unavailable
Deterministic capability gap; model fallback is not an extraction contract
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identitypass
Honcho cache-busting
content-derived key
100/100 concurrent reads
Focused tests, benchmark, exact-head CI, and Bunsen candidate gate passed
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routingpass
Provider receipt integrity
25.95 s fallback
actual provider recorded
Forced fallback records MiniMax as the served provider; normal path records Grok
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sourcepass
Source-patch disposition
3 fixes merged
22 broad failures classified
Three exact-head-green MRs merged; unresolved candidates remain held
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releasepass
Fork reconciliation
3/3 fix MRs merged
every exact-head job green
Final fork main abf19dde5d20; protected branch history preserved
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releasepass
Candidate release topology
11/11 final turns passed
33.08-minute canary
Hatch vanilla PASS; Bunsen final canary and explicit rollback proof passed
dbc0c49ecc81…promotion boundary
Forked ≠ installed.
Three fixes are merged into the downstream fork and qualified on Bunsen. The 11-turn, 33.08-minute final canary and explicit rollback proof both passed. Herman remains unchanged, and production authorization remains a separate human gate.
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