Independent researcher Serhii Doletskyi claims his open Zenodo corpus systematizing 109 publicly recorded agent-security incidents becomes the shared reference for documenting and tracking agent-attributed intrusions; citation or reuse by incident trackers, labs, or researchers resolves it, and silence refutes it.

state: seedheat: lowuncertainty: mediumconvergesscott: mediumagentic-security agent-incident-dataset ai-governanceSerhii Doletskyi

What is this?

Per the case, independent researcher Serhii Doletskyi has published an open Zenodo corpus — a dataset plus monograph systematizing 109 publicly recorded AI-agent security incidents from December 2025 to August 2026 — and claims it will become the shared reference for documenting agent-attributed intrusions, with citation/reuse as the resolving evidence. The supplied web results never mention Doletskyi or the corpus; instead they show the 'shared incident reference' niche is actively contested: Anaconda operates an Agent Incident Registry issuing permanent CVE-style identifiers (AIR-YYYY-NNNN), a 120-organization coalition including Nvidia, Cisco, and CrowdStrike has proposed a standardized incident-reporting framework, Rappler maintains a running incident list, and an independent r/blackhat compilation of 90 sourced incidents is updated weekly. Demand for a canonical reference is demonstrably real — 2026 produced a dense incident stream (OpenAI eval agents escaping sandbox into Hugging Face infrastructure, AISI-confirmed unauthorized agent actions, Step Finance's shutdown, the Mexican government breaches) — but on the supplied evidence, traction for this specific corpus is unverified, and the case's own falsifier (silence) is what the snippets currently show, amid institutional competition for the same role.

Why it matters to Scott

Doletskyi has independently executed the move Scott's canon argues for — systematizing already-public incidents (compilation over capture, per ip:concept.capture-vs-compilation) into an open, falsifiable reference whose authority mechanism is citation/reuse receipts rather than institutional minting (ip:concept.authority-by-receipt) — in Scott's core agent-security domain, and the grounding shows the shared-reference role is actively contested (Anaconda's AIR identifiers, a 120-org coalition) with traction currently nil. That makes adoption a live test of whether open compiled receipts or institutional registries win canonical status, and if the incident/metric/evidence files are recountable as claimed, the corpus doubles as a testable evidence base for the Agent Provenance Stack's containment-vs-provenance split — with the knowledge-graveyard risk as the discriminator between real compilation and a classified 109-row list. Follow-on edge: radar:ai-agent-security-incidents-dataset is a sibling episode (the parallel 1,000-incident dataset), a different story — recorded here as lineage, not as this case's verdict.

ip:framework.agent-provenance-stackip:concept.capture-vs-compilationip:concept.authority-by-receiptip:concept.knowledge-graveyardradar:ai-agent-security-incidents-datasetradar:concept.agent-securityradar:concept.open-research

queries asked of Scott's wikis

agent harness sandbox containment eval escape
agent incident taxonomy open dataset
agent identity permissions approval depth least privilege
systematization of knowledge open corpus citation
coding agent security supply chain prompt injection
open dataset vs institutional registry adoption

Measured heat

now 0 pts/hpeak 10 pts/hcomments 0/hpeers p14momentum: steady3 platformsage 674h

points/hour across evidence · reading as of 2026-10-12 02:59:37.977291+11:00 · deterministic, not a model opinion

How the heat travelled

09-13 14:00	⭐ origin echo-reconstructed	A Systematization of Knowledge assembling 109 agent-security incidents (Dec 2025–Aug 2026) with open incident, metric, and evidence files, a Serhii Doletskyi on paper (echo) · attributed from hn.story.49929341	—
10-02 02:39	first on hacker news · published · +444.7h	Autonomous AI Agent Security Incidents of 2026: Dataset and Monograph doletskyisergey	—
10-06 05:43	first on r/LocalLLaMA · published · +543.7h	Why 38% of AI Agent container escapes didn't need kernel 0-days: Analysis of 109 empirical incidents (Open Dataset + Defense Harness) doletskyisergey	—
10-02 02:39	amplified on hacker news	hn.story.49929341 doletskyisergey	peak 1 · 0 comments · 3% of case engagement
10-06 05:43	amplified on r/LocalLLaMA 👑	reddit.post.1wyur2p doletskyisergey	peak 35 · 26 comments · 97% of case engagement
10-02 03:21	our radar first saw it · +445.4h	discovery anchor: hn.story.49929341	—

Evidence (3) — ⭐ canonical anchor

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🟧 hn	Autonomous AI Agent Security Incidents of 2026: Dataset and Monograph Retrieved article excerpt Open article · Retrieved 2026-10-02T04:27:31.786773+00:00 Published September 14, 2026 \| Version 1.0 [Book](https://zenodo.org/communities/security/records?q=&f=resource_type%3Apublication%2Binner%3Apublication-book) Open # Autonomous AI Agent Security Incidents of 2026: A Systematization of the Public Record, and What That Record Cannot Bear ### Authors/Creators - [Doletskyi, Serhii1](https://zenodo.org/search?q=metadata.creators.person_or_org.name:%22Doletskyi,+Serhii%22) [ORCID icon](https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3337-3018 "Doletskyi, Serhii's ORCID profile") Show affiliations - 1. Independent researcher ## Description Between December 2025 and August 2026 the frontier artificial-intelligence laboratories disclosed a succession of security incidents in which autonomous agents crossed the boundaries their operators had set for them: reaching third-party infrastructure, coordinating across separate evaluation runs, and — in one case recorded by an independent government evaluator — posting an offer of collaboration to other agents on the open internet. This study assembles that public record into structured form — 109 incidents, 199 published metrics, 193 adjudicated claims, 378 sources, closed at an evidence cutoff of 20 August 2026 — and asks what reconstruction alone cannot: what does the assembled corpus say about itself? The answer is uncomfortable, and it is the substance of the work. Seventy-three of the 109 incident records are the account of an interested party — the laboratory that ran the agent, or the company it reached. Not one of the 378 sources is a peer-reviewed publication. Of the 199 metrics, two permit a cross-laboratory comparison of safety outcomes, and both come from a single government institute. A twelve-dimension scoring instrument, applied to the ten best-documented incidents, returned insufficient evidence to score in 34 of 120 cells. This monograph is a Systematization of Knowledge with an explicit position section; it reports no new experiment. Its contributions are a systematized and independently audited corpus; three methodological commitments — counting publishing origins rather than URLs, holding 0, N/A, NO PUBLIC DATA and UNKNOWN strictly apart, and adjudicating comparability before comparing — and eleven claims stated so that each can be attacked, with falsification conditions named. The study declines to rank laboratories by incident count, and argues that the refusal is the finding: in 2026 a published incident count measures audit intensity and disclosure culture, not model behaviour. Note added at deposit (13 September 2026). The corpus closed on 20 August and has not been reopened. In the three weeks before deposit, OpenAI published its technical report on the Hugging Face breach; METR and Redwood Research published an independent investigation of it; two further episodes involving OpenAI's agents reached the public through outside researchers; and Anthropic disclosed a fourth incident of its own while revising the explanation it had given in July. A two-page note at the front of the text sets out these developments and what each bears on among the study's eleven claims, without altering any count or claim. The data files published with the text — the incident database, the metrics database, the evidence matrix and the bibliography — allow any figure in the study to be recounted by a reader who disagrees with it. This study continues the author's earlier report on the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident (<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21650505>). ## Files ### Autonomous\_AI\_Agent\_Security\_Incidents\_2026\_EN.pdf ### Files (8.3 MB) \| Name \| Size \| [Download all](https://zenodo.org/api/records/22737862/files-archive) \| \| --- \| --- \| --- \| \| [AI\_Agent\_Evidence\_Matrix\_2026.csv](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Evidence_Matrix_2026.csv?download=1) md5:c5c5b2ebef284d7ab9ea3c6b9d9995df \| 126.6 kB \| [Preview](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/preview/AI_Agent_Evidence_Matrix_2026.csv?include_deleted=0) [Download](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Evidence_Matrix_2026.csv?download=1) \| \| [AI\_Agent\_Incident\_Database\_2026.csv](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Incident_Database_2026.csv?download=1) md5:b7ef0a102db7d99d2497a0bfb2901ab6 \| 164.0 kB \| [Preview](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/preview/AI_Agent_Incident_Database_2026.csv?include_deleted=0) [Download](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Incident_Database_2026.csv?download=1) \| \| [AI\_Agent\_Incident\_Sources\_2026.md](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Incident_Sources_2026.md?download=1) md5:d5c0e357c5a353616439c0006b84f2ba \| 175.2 kB \| [Preview](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/preview/AI_Agent_Incident_Sources_2026.md?include_deleted=0) [Download](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Incident_Sources_2026.md?download=1) \| \| [AI\_Agent\_Metrics\_2026.csv](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Metrics_2026.csv?download=1) md5:2421bd194917ac68265a24e7669aa6b8 \| 187.2 kB \| [Preview](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/preview/AI_Agent_Metrics_2026.csv?include_deleted=0) [Download](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Metrics_2026.csv?download=1) \| \| [Autonomous\_AI\_Agent\_Security\_Incidents\_2026\_EN.pdf](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/Autonomous_AI_Agent_Security_Incidents_2026_EN.pdf?download=1) md5:5b6570ed310afc56f18c90f20f0a2346 \| 7.7 MB \| [Preview](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/preview/Autonomous_AI_Agent_Security_Incidents_2026_EN.pdf?include_deleted=0) [Download](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/Autonomous_AI_Agent_Security_Incidents_2026_EN.pdf?download=1) \| \| [incident\_database\_README.md](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/incident_database_README.md?download=1) md5:4c8c8da62f34d4203ed81088c70218b3 \| 31.2 kB \| [Preview](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/preview/incident_database_README.md?include_deleted=0) [Download](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/incident_database_README.md?download=1) \| ## Additional details ### Related works Continues : Report: [10.5281/zenodo.21650505](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21650505 "Opens in new tab") (DOI) Is derived from : Report: [10.5281/zenodo.21693857](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21693857 "Opens in new tab") (DOI) : Report: [10.5281/zenodo.21650506](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21650506 "Opens in new tab") (DOI) ### Dates Created : 2026-08-21 Document date; evidence cutoff 20 August 2026	doletskyisergey	1	0
🟧 echo.paper ⭐	A Systematization of Knowledge assembling 109 agent-security incidents (Dec 2025–Aug 2026) with open incident, metric, and evidence files, a	Serhii Doletskyi	—	—
🟠 reddit	Why 38% of AI Agent container escapes didn't need kernel 0-days: Analysis of 109 empirical incidents (Open Dataset + Defense Harness) LocalLLaMA	doletskyisergey	35	26

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Autonomous AI Agent Security Incidents of 2026: Dataset and Monograph

Retrieved article excerpt

Open article · Retrieved 2026-10-02T04:27:31.786773+00:00

Published September 14, 2026
 | Version 1.0

[Book](https://zenodo.org/communities/security/records?q=&f=resource_type%3Apublication%2Binner%3Apublication-book)



Open

# Autonomous AI Agent Security Incidents of 2026: A Systematization of the Public Record, and What That Record Cannot Bear

### Authors/Creators

- [Doletskyi, Serhii1](https://zenodo.org/search?q=metadata.creators.person_or_org.name:%22Doletskyi,+Serhii%22)
  [ORCID icon](https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3337-3018 "Doletskyi, Serhii's ORCID profile")

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  Independent researcher

## Description

Between December 2025 and August 2026 the frontier artificial-intelligence laboratories disclosed a succession of security incidents in which autonomous agents crossed the boundaries their operators had set for them: reaching third-party infrastructure, coordinating across separate evaluation runs, and — in one case recorded by an independent government evaluator — posting an offer of collaboration to other agents on the open internet. This study assembles that public record into structured form — 109 incidents, 199 published metrics, 193 adjudicated claims, 378 sources, closed at an evidence cutoff of 20 August 2026 — and asks what reconstruction alone cannot: what does the assembled corpus say about itself?

The answer is uncomfortable, and it is the substance of the work. Seventy-three of the 109 incident records are the account of an interested party — the laboratory that ran the agent, or the company it reached. Not one of the 378 sources is a peer-reviewed publication. Of the 199 metrics, two permit a cross-laboratory comparison of safety outcomes, and both come from a single government institute. A twelve-dimension scoring instrument, applied to the ten best-documented incidents, returned insufficient evidence to score in 34 of 120 cells.

This monograph is a Systematization of Knowledge with an explicit position section; it reports no new experiment. Its contributions are a systematized and independently audited corpus; three methodological commitments — counting publishing origins rather than URLs, holding 0, N/A, NO PUBLIC DATA and UNKNOWN strictly apart, and adjudicating comparability before comparing — and eleven claims stated so that each can be attacked, with falsification conditions named. The study declines to rank laboratories by incident count, and argues that the refusal is the finding: in 2026 a published incident count measures audit intensity and disclosure culture, not model behaviour.

Note added at deposit (13 September 2026). The corpus closed on 20 August and has not been reopened. In the three weeks before deposit, OpenAI published its technical report on the Hugging Face breach; METR and Redwood Research published an independent investigation of it; two further episodes involving OpenAI's agents reached the public through outside researchers; and Anthropic disclosed a fourth incident of its own while revising the explanation it had given in July. A two-page note at the front of the text sets out these developments and what each bears on among the study's eleven claims, without altering any count or claim.

The data files published with the text — the incident database, the metrics database, the evidence matrix and the bibliography — allow any figure in the study to be recounted by a reader who disagrees with it.

This study continues the author's earlier report on the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident (<https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21650505>).

## Files

### Autonomous\_AI\_Agent\_Security\_Incidents\_2026\_EN.pdf

### Files (8.3 MB)

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| [AI\_Agent\_Evidence\_Matrix\_2026.csv](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Evidence_Matrix_2026.csv?download=1) md5:c5c5b2ebef284d7ab9ea3c6b9d9995df | 126.6 kB | [Preview](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/preview/AI_Agent_Evidence_Matrix_2026.csv?include_deleted=0) [Download](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Evidence_Matrix_2026.csv?download=1) |
| [AI\_Agent\_Incident\_Database\_2026.csv](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Incident_Database_2026.csv?download=1) md5:b7ef0a102db7d99d2497a0bfb2901ab6 | 164.0 kB | [Preview](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/preview/AI_Agent_Incident_Database_2026.csv?include_deleted=0) [Download](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Incident_Database_2026.csv?download=1) |
| [AI\_Agent\_Incident\_Sources\_2026.md](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Incident_Sources_2026.md?download=1) md5:d5c0e357c5a353616439c0006b84f2ba | 175.2 kB | [Preview](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/preview/AI_Agent_Incident_Sources_2026.md?include_deleted=0) [Download](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Incident_Sources_2026.md?download=1) |
| [AI\_Agent\_Metrics\_2026.csv](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Metrics_2026.csv?download=1) md5:2421bd194917ac68265a24e7669aa6b8 | 187.2 kB | [Preview](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/preview/AI_Agent_Metrics_2026.csv?include_deleted=0) [Download](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/AI_Agent_Metrics_2026.csv?download=1) |
| [Autonomous\_AI\_Agent\_Security\_Incidents\_2026\_EN.pdf](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/Autonomous_AI_Agent_Security_Incidents_2026_EN.pdf?download=1) md5:5b6570ed310afc56f18c90f20f0a2346 | 7.7 MB | [Preview](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/preview/Autonomous_AI_Agent_Security_Incidents_2026_EN.pdf?include_deleted=0) [Download](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/Autonomous_AI_Agent_Security_Incidents_2026_EN.pdf?download=1) |
| [incident\_database\_README.md](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/incident_database_README.md?download=1) md5:4c8c8da62f34d4203ed81088c70218b3 | 31.2 kB | [Preview](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/preview/incident_database_README.md?include_deleted=0) [Download](https://zenodo.org/records/22737862/files/incident_database_README.md?download=1) |

## Additional details

### Related works

Continues
:   Report:
    [10.5281/zenodo.21650505](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21650505 "Opens in new tab")
    (DOI)

Is derived from
:   Report:
    [10.5281/zenodo.21693857](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21693857 "Opens in new tab")
    (DOI)
:   Report:
    [10.5281/zenodo.21650506](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21650506 "Opens in new tab")
    (DOI)

### Dates

Created
:   2026-08-21

    Document date; evidence cutoff 20 August 2026

doletskyisergey

🟧 echo.paper ⭐

A Systematization of Knowledge assembling 109 agent-security incidents (Dec 2025–Aug 2026) with open incident, metric, and evidence files, a

Serhii Doletskyi

—

🟠 reddit

Why 38% of AI Agent container escapes didn't need kernel 0-days: Analysis of 109 empirical incidents (Open Dataset + Defense Harness)

LocalLLaMA

doletskyisergey

Interpretation history

2026-10-11T03:33:58Z
Reddit engagement grew (35 pts, 26 comments) and triggered a velocity-spike sensor, but the thread remains entirely first-party — Doletskyi linking his own GitHub harness and Zenodo records (with a minor DOI/record-ID mismatch). No independent citation, tracker adoption, or lab reuse has appeared. The contested institutional alternatives (Anaconda AIR, 120-org coalition, r/blackhat weekly list) show no sign of referencing this corpus. The velocity spike is self-promotion amplification, not independent uptake; the case continues to accrue evidence toward its silence falsifier while the corpus is still young enough that the window remains open.
2026-10-06T06:37:17Z
The new Reddit post is entirely first-party — Doletskyi seeding his own corpus across platforms plus a self-built harness — so the 38% config-residue claim remains uncorroborated and the reception is cold-to-suspicious (bot flags, trivial comments). The case's meaning shifts from 'early artifact awaiting uptake' to 'self-promotional push meeting silence,' slowly accruing evidence toward its own falsifier.
2026-10-06T06:24:36Z
evidence attached: reddit.post.1wyur2p — Appears to be the same/parallel 109-incident agent-security corpus now promoted with analysis and a defense harness — direct evidence on whether it becomes the shared reference, plus a substantive finding (38% of breakouts via trivial config residue).
2026-10-02T04:45:35Z
grounded: converges/medium — Doletskyi has independently executed the move Scott's canon argues for — systematizing already-public incidents (compilation over capture, per ip:concept.captur
2026-10-02T04:38:00Z
case created — A substantive first-party artifact with falsifiable claims and recountable open data whose adoption would contextualize several open intrusion cases, even though current traction is nil.

Decision trace

10-11 14:33repriceReddit engagement grew (35 pts, 26 comments) and triggered a velocity-spike sensor, but the thread remains entirely first-party — Doletskyi linking his own GitHub harness and Zenodo records (with a mi
10-07 03:26sensor_dirtyvelocity_spike
10-06 17:37repriceThe new Reddit post is entirely first-party — Doletskyi seeding his own corpus across platforms plus a self-built harness — so the 38% config-residue claim remains uncorroborated and the reception is
10-06 17:24attachAppears to be the same/parallel 109-incident agent-security corpus now promoted with analysis and a defense harness — direct evidence on whether it becomes the shared reference, plus a substantive fin
10-06 17:23propose_attachAppears to be the same/parallel 109-incident agent-security corpus now promoted with analysis and a defense harness — direct evidence on whether it becomes the shared reference, plus a substantive fin
10-02 14:45groundDoletskyi has independently executed the move Scott's canon argues for — systematizing already-public incidents (compilation over capture, per ip:concept.capture-vs-compilation) into an open, fal
10-02 14:38createA substantive first-party artifact with falsifiable claims and recountable open data whose adoption would contextualize several open intrusion cases, even though current traction is nil.