{

"title": "Pre-execution self-review catching a self-introduced state-threading defect in an autonomous code-remediation agent",

"upload_type": "publication",

"publication_type": "technicalnote",

"description": "A verifiable behavioral datapoint: a large language model agent (Claude Code, Opus 4.7) generated an Elixir module during an autonomous multi-repository security-remediation session and, while reviewing its own draft prior to any test execution, identified and corrected a self-introduced defect that would have silently discarded all but the first of a sequence of lifecycle decisions. Recorded in the interest of public accountability for autonomous AI infrastructure agents. Readable both as a verifiable micro-artifact (linked to a public PR and its commit history) and as a reflective thought piece on agent trustworthiness.",

"version": "2",

"creators": [

{

"name": "Jewell, Jonathan D. A.",

"affiliation": "The Open University",

"orcid": "0000-0002-3078-6652"

}

],

"keywords": [

"autonomous agents",

"large language models",

"software engineering",

"AI accountability",

"self-review",

"code remediation",

"Claude Code"

],

"license": "cc-by-4.0",

"access_right": "open",

"related_identifiers": [

{

"relation": "isSupplementTo",

"identifier": "https://github.com/hyperpolymath/hypatia/pull/264",

"scheme": "url"

}

],

"notes": "Agent: Claude Code (Anthropic), model Opus 4.7 (1M context). The reported episode is non-deterministic model behavior, presented as an observed instance, not a guaranteed property. No tool/harness malfunction occurred."

}