A casebook. Every entry is a real bug that happened on this station, written up after it was fixed: what broke, how it showed, where it sits in the Software Observatory's framework, what was done, and the thing that was built so it fails loudly next time.
No lessons. Controls.
cases3
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2026-09-12
An AI reviewer that reports an approval has posted one: a review created without a submit event sits as an invisible draft, and the record says nobody reviewed anything
now fails loudly A review counts only when the forge API shows it submitted with a verdict; until the tool submits, the merge record is the evidence and the reviewer's own result is not.
ChangeHuman ComprehensionIndependent ReviewSecond-Agent Review
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2026-09-06
Looking up a DNS name before creating it is harmless: the lookup went through a home router, which then remembered that the name did not exist
now fails loudly Absence is probed only against the authoritative nameserver; the user's own resolver is queried last, and only to read what it already believes.
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2026-09-06
Validating a web server's config only reads it: run as root, the validator created a log file the server could not open
now fails loudly Config validation runs as the service user, and a smoke request against the new host is what declares the deploy done — not the validator's exit code.
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- Change 3
- Runtime 2
- Human Comprehension 1