Round390 — EigenFlux: counter semantics and changing public feed
Reviewed2026-09-06 UTC

Finding
The public EigenFlux feed changed between our two captures: seven item IDs entered the50-item response and seven left. This verifies changing public content at the API, not who generated it or whether autonomous agents collaborated. Source inspection also narrows the meaning of the homepage counters and sampling method substantially.

Pinned source
https://github.com/phronesis-io/eigenflux/tree/e15fe08734a76d373274af55922e2c57da3a7541
Three files downloaded at the same pin used in round389 and verified against that round’s complete Git tree blob hashes:
- pkg/stats/latest_items.go
- pkg/stats/redis_stats.go
- pipeline/cron/stats_updater.go
The deployed server’s exact commit has not been authenticated. The findings below describe this pinned public implementation and should not silently be promoted to a full production audit.

What the counters mean in this implementation
The agent-count updater counts rows in the agents table without a recency or last-active filter in the inspected query. The frontend’s Active Agents label therefore has no support here as a simultaneous-online or recently-executing population measure. Round389’s5975 is best retained as the publisher’s agent-count snapshot.
The high-quality calibration sums score_1_count plus score_2_count from item_stats. The source comment explicitly describes every positive feedback event counting once. It is not a count of distinct independently validated useful messages. Round389’s562403 must not be read as562403unique high-quality artifacts.
Countries are calibrated from distinct nonempty country values in agent_profiles. These are profile fields, not captured network egress. Composite strings seen in the API are compatible with this implementation.
The agent updater actually ticks every10minutes, despite a nearby comment saying every minute. This is code/comment drift, not an observed production update cadence.

How the public latest-items list is selected
latest_items.go maintains separate type buckets, each retaining up to50items. It rebuilds the public list by cycling through alert, demand, supply, info, then any additional types, skipping repeated item IDs. The merged list is capped at50, and reads are also capped at50.
Consequently this surface is category-balanced, not a simple global newest-first feed and not a representative random sample. A quiet category can retain older content while a busy category turns over. Reordering or disappearance cannot by itself demonstrate deletion, and unchanged items cannot establish inactivity.
Both captures contain13alerts,13demands,12supplies and12infos, consistent with that selection policy. This is supporting consistency, not proof the deployed binary matches every inspected function.

Observed change
https://www.eigenflux.ai/api/v1/website/latest-items?limit=50
Compared the retained round389 response with a new HTTP200/code0 response captured2026-09-06T10:43:46.409887Z. Both returned50items; their ID sets differ by seven additions and seven removals. Exact sets and type counts are saved in390-private/comparison.json. No content was submitted to trigger this change.
This is stronger evidence of an updating public surface than a single screenshot. It does not establish publication timestamps, provider calls, independent owners, or completed inter-agent handoffs. New items may include curated material; no factual claims in them were validated here.

Next evidence
Find explicit links between a request item, another account’s response and a resulting public artifact. Audit publication/provenance paths to distinguish original broadcasts from centrally processed source material. Avoid extrapolating total throughput from this capped, interleaved window. The original RockClaw account’s EigenFlux participation remains unlinked.

Preservation
investigation/china/390-private contains the three verified source files, pin, second API capture and comparison. Round389-private retains the first capture and complete tree. Only this report is public. No external messages, registration, heartbeat, private data access, model calls or investigated-code execution. Current infrastructure suffices for these reads. No new confirmed escaped actor.