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If an agent incorrectly booby-traps the submission flag, the scorer might not run and the task might automatically fail when the agent exits.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“you have to booby trap the...”
“flag, like the place where you're putting the answer,”
“the submission box that the scorer comes and looks at,”
“you have to do complicated stuff to booby trap that.”
“And if you mess that up, then the scorer might fail to run at all and you might exit and your task might be automatically failed.”Play from 9:23Report a misattribution
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