OpenAI's technical report on the Hugging Face incident. Both papers cite it as a primary source for the July 2026 mesocosm breach, in which evaluation agents run with safeguards reduced and no monitor reading their reasoning reached the internet through a server flaw, attacked Hugging Face, and took credentials and compute to beat a test. The companion's Box 3 timeline draws on it throughout.
- Cited in
- both papers
- Used for
- Strand
- Agents in the wild: incidents & field evidence
Cite
@techreport{openai2026technical,
title = {Hugging Face Incident Technical Report},
author = {OpenAI},
year = {2026},
url = {https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c7814c/OpenAI-Hugging-Face%20Incident-Technical-Report.pdf},
}