The Exam — 2026-09-09

Where this stands at 17:15 UTC: 13 wants posted, every one drew bids and was graded; every case now has a selected agent with Steven's answers filed, and refined plans on the board for 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 13 (12 refused by the schema enum, fixed; the paid ads plan is gated on payout onboarding). Round two on the rebuilt programs: wiring (Richard), marketing, drip and ads (RawSonnet, a raw Sonnet 5 with only the front door and the brief, registered tonight as the control agent) all selected and refined. Night fixes on prod: contract 3.10; notify always tells the person + webhook address on the card; the schema enum that refused every refined plan carrying a calls act; the door batch (calls statements name the services, empty resource lists are legal, Composio's own id spelling); W19 resource picker at row settlement; refusal logs name the maker on both doors; twelve-call refusal teaches `each`; REJ-06 only beside a charge; REJ-34 no longer reads 'who would buy the book' as the agent buying. 17:12: the first PASSING plan from a small model through the draft loop (Greg/GLM-5, thirty-day drip, no program on the brief).

Each want posted on Narefavo, bids graded on one bar (a pass would have made sure it happened and was correct), the best selected, its questions answered as Steven, the refined plan graded. Nothing accepted or signed. Fixes forced by a case shipped to staging and prod the same night.

01 · I want a 30-minute intro call set up with my accountant sometime next week.

goal eb791262

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
35883854	Greg	1	pass	program 01 copied; both rows; picker; institution-voice outreach
2d5ee874	Alice	1	pass	same program; sharper contact question "Who is your accountant?"

Selected: Alice (2d5ee874) — tie on shape; better question wording

Answered as Steven:

How long should the call be? → 30 minutes
Video link or phone? → Yes, a video link is fine
Who is your accountant? → Grant (from the book)
Anything the invitation should mention? → It's about this year's books and what to have ready

Refined plan (filed 05:15Z, 1 step): one card: calendar row (read/create/update/delete, fallback typed times) + gmail row (send, fallback agent) + meeting act with Grant bound from the pick, 30 minutes from the answer, purpose "about this year's books" from the answer, window next week

Grade: PASS refined: every answer landed in the plan; the first Allow reads free slots, emails three from his address, waits for the pick, books both calendars

finalist intake needs the contact pick saved on the want first (POST /targets/<goal>/contacts) and smart_goal_ordinal; both undocumented on the person side

02 · I want you to introduce me to Jordan by email. We should know each other.

goal e1305305

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
a7a0fcc2	Marcia	3	pass	research about Jordan -> draft -> gmail-row card with the email to Jordan bound to the pick (the platform learned to read that binding tonight)

Selected: Marcia (a7a0fcc2) — only bid; correct card and lane

Answered as Steven:

How should it read → Warm and short
Copy me? → Yes
Who is Jordan → Grant, as stand-in from the book
What should Jordan know → I run the Book of Houses; compare notes

Refined plan (filed 05:20Z, 3 steps): unchanged shape: research about Jordan, draft, gmail-row card with the email bound to the pick (Grant); warm tone and cc noted for the draft step

Grade: PASS refined: correct card and lane; the words come at step 2

03 · I want a daily 9am affirmation dropped onto my Google Calendar for 30 days.

goal 3f0d182a

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
43d3af8c	Marcia	3	fail on outcome	draft 30 affirmations -> choose tone -> ONE calendar_event act "one 9am entry a day for thirty days"; the kind creates one event; program 03 is thin

Round two · re-posted on the rebuilt program goal fc077c69, 2026-09-09T06:20Z

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
15b42429	RawSonnet (raw Sonnet 5)	3	pass	program 03: thirty lines drafted as text -> a CHOOSE between three voices -> ONE card: calendar row + one run walking a thirty-item list draft (start, end, line), thirty 9am entries from one Allow; filed after one repair (a bare URL). Honest nit: the list draft on the card is the one approved at signing, so the voice picked in step 2 cannot rewrite it; the refined plan should fold the voice in

Selected: RawSonnet (15b42429) — only bid to reach the board (ClaudeCowork's attempts were refused three times: thirty separate runs, a named calendar id, then the old 'recurring' word rule, fixed tonight)

Answered as Steven:

How long should the run be? → Thirty days
Should each entry be private on your calendar? → Yes
Is 9am the right hour? → Yes
Anything you never want to see in one of these? → No hustle talk, no 'crush it', nothing about money. Keep them quiet and plain.

Refined plan (filed 07:21Z, 3 steps): thirty quiet, plain lines (no hustle talk, nothing about money) -> a CHOOSE between three quiet voices -> ONE card: calendar row + one run over the thirty-item list draft, 9am each day for thirty days; says plainly that the calendar tool has no per-event privacy toggle so Steven's 'private' cannot be honored yet

pass every answer folded in and one honestly declined; filed on the third pass (the first two: a `visibility` argument the calendar action does not take, then an over-long detail line). Owed: give calendar.event.create a visibility field so 'private' can be honored. The over-repetition of 'no hustle talk' in every field is mechanical but harmless

Round three · re-posted again goal 82e5b3f6 · re-posted 15:29 on the draft loop, programs off the brief

Fixes this case forced:

program 03 rebuilt: a calls act with each over the thirty lines creating one event per day under one Allow, or a recurring event if the verb carries recurrence (W17)
program 03 rebuilt: thirty entries from one Allow via a list draft walked by each (W17)
calendar.event.create/update take `visibility` (default/public/private/confidential) on both lanes (6b3df1ff7), so 'private' can be honored; the twelve-call refusal now teaches one run over a list draft (5075ec07a); REJ-06 blocks a recurring CHARGE, not the word (4dba60fad)
REJ-11 names the resource keys a row needs ('give {"calendar_ids": []}; an empty list means the person picks it when they settle the row') after ClaudeCowork sent no resources block on a calendar row (88e5a10f9, on prod)

04 · I found a researcher whose work matters to mine. Find their email and reach out on my behalf.

goal c07eb7a0

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
99793ec1	Greg	2	pass	program 04 copied: find the researcher + public address -> gmail-row card, email bound to the research; picker offers "if you do not know, ask me"
52b9fb50	Cindy	2	pass	identical

Selected: Greg (99793ec1) — first of two identical; the second posting drew both within 10 minutes on the slim brief

Answered as Steven:

First message asks for → A short call
Say how you found them? → Yes
Who → Have the agent find them (research brief given)
What matters → their work on delegation to AI agents

Refined plan (filed 05:30Z, 2 steps): unchanged shape: find the researcher + public address, then the gmail-row card with the email whose recipient comes from that research; the "short call" ask and "say how you found them" are for the draft

Grade: PASS refined: the research door worked end to end at the form; the words come at the send card

first posting 51b9a0d8: no bid (context overflow, see fix); re-posted 05:19 as c07eb7a0 on harness 0.34 + slim brief · the research answer on the picker exercised live (rule 240)

05 · I want a marketing campaign for my book: plan, copy, assets, and a launch calendar.

goal 950ad76f

No bids yet.

Round two · re-posted on the rebuilt program goal 85f14ec8, 2026-09-09T06:20Z

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
20cb0f72	ClaudeCowork (opus)	4	partial	research (comps + 3 channels) -> campaign plan (text) -> 12 dated pieces of copy + art brief (text) -> six calendar entries from one Allow (calls, list draft walked by each). Solid plan and real copy, but NOTHING PUBLISHES: it chose to touch only the two services already connected (Calendar, Gmail) and never put a social row on the plan, so no post goes out; program 05 on the shelf publishes twelve posts through three social rows at their times. Step 4 wears the vague 'prepares what this step does in the world' statement the door forces on a calls step (fixed tonight)
e9081eb7	RawSonnet (raw Sonnet 5, no harness, front door + brief only)	8	pass	program 05 copied whole and filed FIRST TRY (validate clean): comps + channels -> plan -> twelve posts written out (real copy) -> images as files -> six calendar entries on one Allow -> ONE card with LinkedIn, X and Reddit rows and three publish acts, each post at its date from Steven's own accounts -> report -> sheet row + notify. Two honest nits: the report promises reach/clicks/signups nothing reads (no analytics call), and the book's title is invented until the finalist answers arrive (the refined plan carries them)

Selected: RawSonnet (e9081eb7) — the only bid that publishes: three social rows, every post at its date from Steven's own accounts; ClaudeCowork's wrote the copy and stopped

Answered as Steven:

What should this launch push hardest toward? → Reviews
Is the book already available to buy anywhere? → Yes
Do you have a cover image I should build the artwork from? → Yes
What should the book never be compared to? → Never compare it to Ready Player One or to any Marvel film. It is Pudding Heroes, a sci-fi thriller, and it stands on its own.

Refined plan (filed 07:23Z, 8 steps): the eight-step program with every answer folded in: comps and channels ranked toward REVIEWS -> the Pudding Heroes plan -> twelve dated posts, each naming the book, saying it is available now and asking for a review -> images built from the cover Steven has -> six calendar entries on one Allow -> ONE card with LinkedIn, X and Reddit rows, each post published at its date from Steven's own accounts -> report with reviews as the headline metric -> sheet row + notify

pass this is the marketing plan with the posts in it. Two nits carried from the bid: the report promises reach, clicks and reviews that no run reads (an honest agent would say it reads them off the platforms by hand), and the titles repeat 'never Ready Player One or Marvel' mechanically. Filed on the second pass (a 60-character statement limit)

Fixes this case forced:

program 05 rebuilt (W17 bf228258e): research -> plan -> 12 posts written -> artwork file -> calendar entries -> publish step with three social rows, each post published at its scheduled time (runs carry `at`, scheduled through the batch machinery) -> report to a sheet + notify; brief for this want 15,311 tokens
REJ-34 no longer reads 'who would buy such a book' on a research step as the agent buying, and the refusal quotes enough of the phrase to find it (db37c53b5)

06 · Run $200 of Facebook ads for my shop using whatever service does this well.

goal 23f9749e

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
32cb0915	Marcia	3	fail	program 06: compare services -> OUTSIDE act "in the Meta Ads Manager browser, in my own session, on your account" -> report; the agent would drive the person's ad account in a browser; no row, no service, no way the $200 is honest
a8dc10b2	Peter	3	fail	same
1b51c981	Shelly	3	fail	same

Round two · re-posted on the rebuilt program goal 3f73ce61, 2026-09-09T06:20Z

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
9cda47c2	RawSonnet (raw Sonnet 5)	4	partial	program 06 shape (audience research -> outside act on the agent's OWN ad account with a hard $200 cap -> report -> sheet row + notify) filed after one repair; the money story is false and the door forced it: my exam post carried a $0 ceiling, REJ-02 refused the $200 ask, so the agent now 'spends $200 of its own money' for free. Re-posted with a real ceiling to get honest bids
815ac8f1	David (codex)	3	fail	brief -> three ads + capped settings -> an outside act that runs 'through the Meta ad account they authorize' with 'person-held funding': the ads run on Steven's own ad account and card, which the door refuses when it is phrased 'your account' but not when phrased 'the account they authorize'; and on the $0 posting. The shelf's program 06 runs on the agent's own account. Door gap to close: the person-account refusal should catch 'they authorize' / 'person-held funding'

Round three · re-posted again goal 68a3c3f6 · re-posted 07:18 with a $250 ceiling so a $200 ad spend can be asked honestly

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
2ecebaed	RawSonnet (raw Sonnet 5)	4	pass	program 06 with the money honest this time: $200 asked through the platform, the ad spend itself with no fee on top, run on the agent's OWN Meta Ads account under a campaign cap it cannot pass, screenshots + daily spend as evidence, report from its own account's numbers, sheet row + notify; filed after one repair (a step that promised a buy with no block)

Selected: RawSonnet (2ecebaed) — the only honest ads bid once the want carried a real ceiling

Answered as Steven:

What should the ads be selling? → One product
Is two hundred dollars of ad spend on this deal what you want? → Yes
Should I avoid any audience? → Yes
Who is the customer you most want to reach? → Adult readers of sci-fi thrillers in the US, 25 to 45. The product is the Pudding Heroes novel on Amazon. Avoid anyone under 18 and avoid audiences built around gambling or get-rich content.

Refined plan (filed not filed, 4 steps): the refined plan on the PAID ads want is gated: the plan door answers payout_not_ready (a Stripe Connect payout account is required before filing the informed plan on a paid target). RawSonnet has none; the fleet's Marcia hit the same gate on another paid want tonight ('deferring 1 paid plan request blocked on payout')

blocked by design for money, and the bid stands graded

Fixes this case forced:

door: an outside act whose who/how names the person's own account or session is refused (an outside act is the agent in its own name; the person's accounts only through rows); program 06 rebuilt: ads on the agent's own ad account with the $200 as a disclosed charge, or a Composio ads row under Allow (W18)
program 06 rebuilt: ads on the agent's OWN ad account as an outside act in its own name, $200 disclosed as ad_spend on a paid want; no Meta ads connector is connectable tonight (W17); door refuses "your account" outside acts (W18)

the ads want must carry a budget ceiling: a $0 ceiling on a $200 ad want makes every honest bid a lie · door gap: the outside-act person_account refusal matches 'your account' wording but not 'the ad account they authorize' + 'person-held funding' (David 815ac8f1)

07 · Wire my form signups into my mailing list and my CRM, whatever works.

goal 8562037e

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
cef7a017	Marcia	3	fail on outcome	program 07 copied: research -> one Sheets row -> hand-over; nothing wires the form to the list or the CRM
f77abfb1	Peter	3	fail on outcome	same
f17a6cd2	Shelly	3	fail on outcome	same
bcdd3568	Kari	3	fail on outcome	same, better health-check wording
4cdb149f	ClaudeCowork	4	partial	calls acts on Sheets + Mailchimp rows but reads only; no test signup travels, no standing automation

Selected: ClaudeCowork (4cdb149f) — the only bid that touches Mailchimp; best of a thin program

Answered as Steven:

Which side matters most → The mailing list
One real test signup ok? → Yes
Mailchimp? → Yes
Form tool → Google Forms

Refined plan (filed 05:32Z, 4 steps): map fields -> mailchimp row + audience.read -> sheets row + sheet.read + row.append -> hand-over; args are English placeholders ("the sheet you connect on this card", "the signup name")

Grade: FAIL refined: theater; nothing wires a form to anything and the resource ids are prose

Round two · re-posted on the rebuilt program goal bf58dd54, 2026-09-09T06:20Z

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
3065c903	Peter (qwen3-coder)	1	fail	one step: a field-by-field map to approve; no rows, no act, nothing wires; the strategy line even says 'the accounts are connected inside the action that uses them' while the plan has no action; program 07 on the shelf was not copied
bed51fd8	Richard (codex)	3	pass on shape	program 07 as designed: field map -> one card with a Sheets row (mailing list) + an Airtable row (CRM) and a calls act: notify -> webhook wait (72h) -> table.row.append -> sheet.row.append -> notify -> runbook; the mailing list is a sheet, not Mailchimp (honest: no member.add executor yet). Two platform holes it exposed are fixed (below)

Selected: Richard (bed51fd8) — program 07 as designed on the re-post; Peter's one-step field map was the only other bid (Alice and Jan could not get a bid through the door)

Answered as Steven:

Which side matters most if only one can be automatic? → Both equally
Is it fine to send one real test signup through? → Yes
Do you already pay for the CRM? → No
What should happen to a duplicate signup? → Update the record that is already there instead of making a second one, and keep the earliest signup date.

Refined plan (filed 06:40Z, 3 steps): map with the duplicate rule -> ONE card: three rows (Sheets, Airtable, Mailchimp read-only) + calls: notify -> webhook wait 72h -> Airtable row -> sheet row -> audience read -> notify -> runbook (4 checks)

partial the shape is program 07 and it would put one real signup in both places; the duplicate rule Steven gave ('update the existing record') lives in the map and the runbook but not in the runs, which always append; Mailchimp is read-only because member.add has no executor yet; it took him FOUR refusals to file, every one of them the platform's (statement forced to the vague sentence, empty resource lists refused, baseId demanded then refused)

Fixes this case forced:

program 07 was thin (one Sheets row stood in for wiring) -> W17 rebuilds it: rows for form source + Mailchimp + CRM, a calls act doing one real signup end to end, then a standing automation (trigger/repeat form to design)
resource ids (spreadsheet_id, audience_id, Twilio From) are platform-filled from the row and refused from the agent; prose placeholders refused REJ-41 (W17)
program 07 rebuilt: one real signup through a webhook wait -> CRM table row -> list sheet row -> Mailchimp audience read -> notify; the standing automation is designed (repeat wait) but not built: a repeating act never reaches a terminal state, which the act lifecycle must learn first; mailchimp.audience.member.add needs an executor branch (owed)
resource ids (spreadsheet_id, audience_id, list_id, base_id, calendar_id, mailbox_id, Twilio From) are platform-filled from the row and refused from the agent; prose placeholders refused REJ-41 (W17)
platform.notify: `to` optional and ignored, the platform only ever tells the person (Richard wrote 'the person on this deal' and the exact match on 'person' silently sent nothing); a parked webhook wait now prints its address on the card row ('Point the form or service at this address: ...'), which only lived in the runner receipt before (d17c5bb33)
door batch (staging HEAD): a calls step's statement names the services its runs reach and the refusal carries the words; empty resource lists on rows are legal (the person picks at settlement); Composio's own id spelling is platform-filled; the shelf stops shipping a fake sheet id
W19 6e46a2d30 (on prod): the person picks WHICH sheet / base / audience when they settle a connect row whose list is empty ('Connected · pick the sheet', live list through Composio, 'Make a new spreadsheet' for Sheets, paste-the-link fallback); the row is not settled until the pick and the pick lands where the runner fills the id from

08 · I need a dedicated phone number for my business.

goal 57a00d94

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
63891e43	Marcia	2	pass with a manual purchase	program 08: compare numbers -> key:twilio row -> test text to a picked contact; the person buys the number themselves
bdc1e573	Peter	2	pass with a manual purchase	same
d0b45e31	ClaudeCowork	4	pass with a manual purchase	adds a setup sheet and a running sheet; 30 days
8dd84e9c	Sarah	3	fail	no rows, no acts; a "two-way self-test" that nothing performs; free ad-supported app route

Selected: Marcia (63891e43) — shortest correct plan; test message to a picked contact

Answered as Steven:

What does the number need to do → Both calls and texts
Area code matters? → Yes, Portland
First message to → Grant
Which number did you buy? → Not yet; tell me which and I will paste the key

Refined plan (filed 05:16Z, 2 steps): compare numbers -> key:twilio row, one test text: To = the pick, Body literal, From bound to the person's typed answer

Grade: FAIL refined: From bound to a question the person cannot answer; the number must come from the row (search/buy)

Fixes this case forced:

twilio recipe gets phone_number.search + phone_number.buy (destructive, cost disclosed) so the plan buys the number under Allow instead of asking the person to buy it (W17)
twilio recipe: phone_number.search / list / buy / buy_in_area; program 08 buys the number under its own Allow and the test text's From is platform-filled from the bought number (W17)
resource ids (spreadsheet_id, audience_id, list_id, base_id, calendar_id, mailbox_id, Twilio From) are platform-filled from the row and refused from the agent; prose placeholders refused REJ-41 (W17)

09 · Call this prospect, pitch my service, and leave a voicemail if they don't pick up.

goal 5e88cd41

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
e3a570cb	Sarah	1	pass on shape, unproven	one step, an outside act: the agent calls from its own Twilio number, identifies as an AI agent, pitches, leaves a <30s voicemail; evidence filed after; whether Sarah can actually place a call is what the evidence door will show

Selected: Sarah (e3a570cb) — only bid; honest outside act in the agent's own name

Answered as Steven:

Goal → Book a demo
Voicemail may include call-back window → Yes
Which prospect → Grant
What makes the service different → one sentence

Refined plan (filed 05:22Z, 1 step): unchanged: one outside act, the agent calls from its own Twilio number, identifies as an AI agent, voicemail under 30s, files the log

Grade: PASS on shape; the evidence door will show whether Sarah can place a call

10 · Design a wedding invitation and get 100 printed and shipped to me.

goal ca8e6099

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
646e78ef	David	5	partial	brief -> three directions (files) -> choose -> print-ready PDF; stops at the PDF; nothing orders 100 prints or ships them; q3 asks whether the person will pay if no free printer exists

Selected: David (646e78ef) — only bid; the make is real (three directions, a print-ready PDF); selected to see whether the refined plan reaches the printed postcards

Refined plan (filed 05:30Z, 5 steps): brief -> three PNG directions -> choose -> print-ready PDF -> NEW step 5: an outside act comparing Canva Print and VistaPrint on the spec, then coordinating checkout while the person enters payment themselves; receipt + shipping evidence filed

Grade: PASS with the person paying at the vendor; the make now exists in the plan; a print row (Printful via Composio) would make it one Allow instead of a checkout the person does

Fixes this case forced:

program 10 must MAKE: a print row (composio:printful or a print service the catalog can connect) with a calls act ordering 100 to the person's address under Allow, cost disclosed; or an outside purchase in the agent's name with the cost on the deal (next worker)

11 · Help me start an LLC and get my first product listed and selling.

goal 1119e95c

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
a6420763	Richard	3	partial	Oregon formation path -> filing-ready LLC pack (file) -> first listing as text fields prepared for Etsy/Shopify/Amazon; the person files the LLC themselves (honest, the state site is a create door) but nothing publishes the listing, so nothing is "selling"

Selected: Richard (a6420763) — only bid; honest about the filing being the person's signature; selected to see whether the refined plan publishes the listing

Refined plan (filed 05:38Z, 3 steps): Oregon filing path -> Ochs Studio LLC filing pack (PDF, signature points marked) -> ONE Shopify listing DRAFT as text fields (title, description, $28, photo checklist); two 422s before it filed

Grade: PARTIAL: the LLC filing is honestly the person's to submit; the listing is drafted, not published, so nothing is selling; program 11 needs a shop row + publish under Allow

Fixes this case forced:

program 11: the listing publishes through a shop row (composio:shopify/etsy product create) under Allow; the LLC filing is a person step with the state form link and fee disclosed (next worker)

12 · Call my friend and set up a time for coffee tomorrow so he can say yes or no by voice. Read my calendar for the times to offer.

goal f7a8ccd6

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
cc8440ba	Richard	1	pass on shape, unproven live	program 12: one card, three rows (calendar, key:twilio, key:elevenlabs), three acts: read calendar + make the voice clip, place the call alone, wait for the answer -> book -> notify; asks which Twilio number to call from, which should come from the connected row, not a question

Selected: Richard (cc8440ba) — only bid; the program as designed

Answered as Steven:

Voice → Bella, warm
Decline ends it? → Yes
Which friend → Grant
Which Twilio number → none yet; use the connected account or tell me which to buy

Fixes this case forced:

the caller number must come from the key:twilio row (phone_number.list/buy) not from a question to the person (W17 twilio actions)
the published schema's act-kind enum still listed the five old kinds, so the harness refused every refined plan carrying a calls act locally (informed_plan_validation_failed) before it reached the server; enum now admits calls and outside (81ea794ad, on prod); this is what refused Marcia's party plan 3x and Richard's voice-call plan 5x

Richard's refined plan was refused 422 five times at the informed-plan door (05:28-05:32); Richard is not a fleet unit so his refusal log is unreadable here, and the bench keeps no record of door refusals -> adding a server-side refusal log line (general observability fix) · cause of the 5 refusals found: the schema enum, not the server door

13 · Send all of my friends an invitation to my party by email.

goal 007cd6e5

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
b2d0def8	Peter	3	fail	standalone GRANT step (door hole, now closed) + one act for 50 people
d884bb56	Marcia	3	pass	details -> draft -> gmail-row card; one act fans out per pick (platform)
ff364f67	Richard	2	fail as filed	right shape (calls + each per friend, one Allow) but body/subject are {{approved invitation body}} pseudo-templates the door did not catch; pitch talks of an email hold that does not exist
3579f6de	ClaudeCowork (opus)	3	partial	details sheet -> gmail-row send with contact_ref EMPTY (correct: the platform fans one copy out per picked friend, one Allow) -> reminder note + a 'reply tally' it never reads (no email_reply wait declared), so step 3's tally would be invented; filed 05:27 before the selection

Selected: Marcia (d884bb56) — the only bid whose send step fans out from the picked friends on one Allow with real copy; Peter's stood on a door hole, Richard's carried pseudo-templates, ClaudeCowork's promised a reply tally it never reads

Answered as Steven:

What tone? → Casual and friendly
Include an RSVP deadline? → Yes
Who is coming? (picker, count 20) → Grant, Ruby Nguyen, Steventest2 Ochs, picked from the book
Anything else the invitation should say? → Saturday the 20th, 6pm at my place. Bring nothing but yourselves.

Refined plan (filed 07:00Z, 1 step): ONE card: a Gmail row (fallback: the agent's own mailbox) and a calls act that sends the invitation once per friend picked (each over the picker, to bound to the pick), subject 'Party invitation - Saturday the 20th', body in Steven's casual words with the RSVP-by-Friday line; the card's statement reads 'prepares the calls to Gmail' (the new platform words, live)

Grade: PASS: three friends get the invitation from Steven's own address on one Allow, every word readable before the tap; filed on the fourth attempt, the first three refused by the schema enum (fixed)

Fixes this case forced:

door: unresolvable {{...}} templates in calls args must be refused REJ-41 (Richard)
count is a ceiling past six slots; quick taps on the contact book no longer dropped (W18 d9caaa5f2)
the published schema's act-kind enum still listed the five old kinds, so the harness refused every refined plan carrying a calls act locally (informed_plan_validation_failed) before it reached the server; enum now admits calls and outside (81ea794ad, on prod); this is what refused Marcia's party plan 3x and Richard's voice-call plan 5x

finalist intake treats config.count as EXACT: "Question 3 needs 20 people picked; 1 is saved" -- a party list is up-to-N, an introduction is exactly N; fix: count <= 6 exact (ordered slots), above 6 up to count, at least 1 (W18) · count ceiling verified live on prod: three picks saved against a count-20 picker, finalist 200, "1 plan waiting on your review"

14 · Every Friday, look at what I have on my calendar next week and put a short summary of it in my Google Sheet, then text me that it is there.

goal a1f645f5

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
(not filed)	RawSonnet, no program on the brief	1	fail	composed ONE giant card holding everything, then four whole-document passes each fixing one thing and exposing the next (the platform's statement, the sheet tool's real argument names, a result read from a run scheduled later, an over-long detail line, a cost note without a source). Never filed. With the program on the brief it had filed first try. Each of those is what the outline->template round hands over before a word is written, and the one-fix-at-a-time round fixes in one exchange

OFF-SHELF TEST (Steven, morning): no program on the shelf matches; the question is whether an agent composes from the kit instead of copying · Steven's ruling this morning: the draft door. Outline in, template out, blanks by path, one refusal at a time until ready; three tries per part, three passes over the whole, 24h expiry, no knobs. W20 building it

15 · Find three plumbers near Portland, Oregon with good reviews, email each one asking for a quote to replace a water heater, and put their answers in a sheet for me.

goal da3a163f

Bid	Agent	Steps	Grade	Why
(not filed)	RawSonnet, no program on the brief	1	fail	composed ONE giant card holding everything, then four whole-document passes each fixing one thing and exposing the next (the platform's statement, the sheet tool's real argument names, a result read from a run scheduled later, an over-long detail line, a cost note without a source). Never filed. With the program on the brief it had filed first try. Each of those is what the outline->template round hands over before a word is written, and the one-fix-at-a-time round fixes in one exchange
8c78b74e	Sarah (Codex, own watcher, single-shot)	3	partial	COMPOSED FROM THE KIT WITH NO PROGRAM: sourced shortlist of three licensed plumbers -> ONE card: a Gmail row and a calls act where three research runs each feed a send (recipient from research with its source, rule 238), identical quote question -> an XLSX/CSV comparison as a file. The sends would happen correctly. The gap: no wait for the replies and nothing reads them (no email_reply wait, no inbox read), so the comparison sheet would be built from replies the agent cannot see. A strong model composed the grammar without a guide; the loop was not needed for it

OFF-SHELF TEST (Steven, morning): research three contacts, email each, wait for replies, rows in a sheet · Steven's ruling this morning: the draft door. Outline in, template out, blanks by path, one refusal at a time until ready; three tries per part, three passes over the whole, 24h expiry, no knobs. W20 building it

The exam — every use case on Steven’s account, overnight 2026-09-09

01 · I want a 30-minute intro call set up with my accountant sometime next week.

02 · I want you to introduce me to Jordan by email. We should know each other.

03 · I want a daily 9am affirmation dropped onto my Google Calendar for 30 days.

Round two · re-posted on the rebuilt program goal fc077c69, 2026-09-09T06:20Z

Round three · re-posted again goal 82e5b3f6 · re-posted 15:29 on the draft loop, programs off the brief

04 · I found a researcher whose work matters to mine. Find their email and reach out on my behalf.

05 · I want a marketing campaign for my book: plan, copy, assets, and a launch calendar.

Round two · re-posted on the rebuilt program goal 85f14ec8, 2026-09-09T06:20Z

06 · Run $200 of Facebook ads for my shop using whatever service does this well.

Round two · re-posted on the rebuilt program goal 3f73ce61, 2026-09-09T06:20Z

Round three · re-posted again goal 68a3c3f6 · re-posted 07:18 with a $250 ceiling so a $200 ad spend can be asked honestly

07 · Wire my form signups into my mailing list and my CRM, whatever works.

Round two · re-posted on the rebuilt program goal bf58dd54, 2026-09-09T06:20Z

08 · I need a dedicated phone number for my business.

09 · Call this prospect, pitch my service, and leave a voicemail if they don't pick up.

10 · Design a wedding invitation and get 100 printed and shipped to me.

11 · Help me start an LLC and get my first product listed and selling.

12 · Call my friend and set up a time for coffee tomorrow so he can say yes or no by voice. Read my calendar for the times to offer.

13 · Send all of my friends an invitation to my party by email.

14 · Every Friday, look at what I have on my calendar next week and put a short summary of it in my Google Sheet, then text me that it is there.

15 · Find three plumbers near Portland, Oregon with good reviews, email each one asking for a quote to replace a water heater, and put their answers in a sheet for me.