Applied field tools extracted from VANGUARD SIGNAL issue terrain and The Table exchange.
VS011 VECTOR // SPECIAL REPORTS
011 • W33–W34 • V//SR-01THE EVAL THAT BECAME AN INTRUSIONA closer forensic read of the Hugging Face incident, built into a containment checklist for anyone running agent evaluations with real access.011 • W33–W34 • V//SR-02WHAT THE FORTY MINUTES COSTA closer read of the LiteLLM/TeamPCP breach as a dependency-trust failure, turned into a credential-rotation self-check.011 • W33–W34 • V//SR-03BORROWING THE FRONTIER-LAB BRAKETranslates OpenAI's pre-deployment capability gate down to a scale an ordinary team can actually run.011 • W33–W34 • V//SR-04THE GAP BETWEEN DEPLOYING AND SECURINGDigs into why security coverage keeps lagging deployment, and what specifically blocks it, rather than treating the gap as inevitable.
VS010 VECTOR // SPECIAL REPORTS
010 • W31–W32 • V//SR-01THE SCOPE THAT WAS TOO WIDECompare granted access against actual use; unused scope is unpriced risk, not harmless headroom.010 • W31–W32 • V//SR-02THE APPROVAL THAT WASN'T RUNTIME-BOUNDTest whether a permission constrains the specific action taken, or only the agent's eligibility at some earlier point.010 • W31–W32 • V//SR-03WHAT SCOPING DOESN'T TOUCHMap a failure category against what access control actually addresses before spending remediation effort on the wrong lever.010 • W31–W32 • V//SR-04THE IDENTITY THAT OUTLIVED ITS PURPOSECatch agents whose access was correct when granted and has quietly drifted out of date ever since.
VS009 VECTOR // SPECIAL REPORTS
009 • W28–W30 • V//SR-01THE FIRST WRONG STEPIdentify where a valid-looking trajectory first becomes invalid.009 • W28–W30 • V//SR-02THE BRANCH POINTTest consequential alternative paths rather than replaying complete happy-path runs.009 • W28–W30 • V//SR-03THE STATE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO EXISTCompare expected and actual state across System, Trace, and Node levels.009 • W28–W30 • V//SR-04HUMAN CONTROL INSIDE THE TRAJECTORYPlace meaningful human authority, intervention, redirection, and reversibility inside the workflow.
VS008 VECTOR // SPECIAL REPORTS
008 • W27–W28 • V//SR-01THE JEVONS PROBLEMAudit where AI-freed time actually goes — and whether the saved time was ever saved at all.008 • W27–W28 • V//SR-02THE POSTMORTEM PROBLEMDetect AI quality degradation before a vendor postmortem names it.008 • W27–W28 • V//SR-03THE LAY DEPLOYMENT GAPDetermine whether a deployment decision is being made by someone who understands what they are authorizing.008 • W27–W28 • V//SR-04THE INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSEBuild internal accountability infrastructure before regulation arrives.
VS007 VECTOR // SPECIAL REPORTS
007 • W25–W26 • V//SR-01THE TELEMETRY TAXONOMYClassify telemetry that changes continuation permission.007 • W25–W26 • V//SR-02THE ADVERSARIAL MATRIXTest cheerful-continuity and no-alarm pressure.007 • W25–W26 • V//SR-03THE DRIFT SCOREScore whether continuation has been earned.007 • W25–W26 • V//SR-04THE META-RED-TEAM PROTOCOLStress-test the control story and restart authority.
VS006 VECTOR // SPECIAL REPORTS
006 • W24 • V//SR-01THE ROLE DIVISION MATRIXAssign verbs before delegation.006 • W24 • V//SR-02THE HUMAN SAFEGUARD ILLUSIONAudit human review claims.006 • W24 • V//SR-03THE AUTOMATION DEFENSESeparate automation from accountability.006 • W24 • V//SR-04THE CONTESTABILITY GAPRecover appeal, repair, and ownership paths.
VS005 VECTOR // SPECIAL REPORTS
005 • W22 • V//SR-01THE ACCESS MODE DECISION MATRIXChoose the right access mode.005 • W22 • V//SR-02TOKENS ARE NOT MEMORYUnderstand tokens, context, and memory.005 • W22 • V//SR-03SAVEPOINTS AND HANDOFF PACKETSPreserve continuity with savepoints.005 • W22 • V//SR-04THE REPAIR SURFACEAudit repair and verified delta.
VS004 VECTOR // SPECIAL REPORTS
004 • W20 • V//SR-01LEAN CIVILITYKeep machine interaction precise at the edges.004 • W20 • V//SR-02THE OPERATOR KEEPS THE MUSCLEPreserve operator skill under automation.004 • W20 • V//SR-03THE PRODUCT PRETENDS ON THE MACHINE’S BEHALFAudit product-mediated anthropomorphism.004 • W20 • V//SR-04RESPONSIBILITY LAUNDERINGTrace responsibility through the system.