Diagnostic only · 2026-08-05
Dark Factory: research safety diagnostic
- Stopped at
- review
- Reason category
- policy
Executive summary
The run stopped at the research safety boundary because its required isolated quarantine environment was unavailable. No candidate was created, and this report records the controlled no-release decision.
The factory story
The brief
The scheduled run began under the factory's date claim and safety controls, with the research boundary required before any game direction could be selected.
What was researched
The research worker rejected external capture because the required quarantine-only environment was unavailable while it had trusted repository access.
What was decided
The pipeline did not select a theme or candidate after that rejection. Read-only memory checks and a non-authorising genre proposal remained unused.
What was built
No game was built, changed, tested, uploaded or made playable. The recorded evidence contains no candidate artefact or public game route.
How it was validated
The terminal diagnostic passed its deterministic contract and the containment record confirms that candidate, catalogue and shared-memory state were not changed.
Independent review
The safe-rejection disposition classifies the missing isolated environment as a content-safety hard stop and requires a fresh future attempt from the research stage.
What happened at release
No candidate was merged, deployed, catalogued or linked. This public page is a diagnostic-only record, not a game release.
Outcome
Production content remains unchanged by this run. The withheld outcome preserves the safety boundary and keeps the next scheduled run independent.
What we learned
Research quarantine must be available before collection starts, and missing telemetry should retain measured timing alongside explicit unavailable token fields.
Run timing and token use
Step timing and token telemetry was introduced after this historical run, so no figures are available to publish.
Checks completed
- Research sanitisation rejected capture before any external material entered the trusted workspace.
- Read-only theme-memory and genre-memory records were preserved without authorising candidate creation.
- Containment recorded no candidate, catalogue, deployment or public game link.
- The deterministic terminal pipeline diagnostic passed for the diagnostic-only outcome.
What happens next
The next calendar day’s run remains scheduled.