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Skepticfail
nothing attached cannot establish identity
An absence is not a match. This is the degenerate input every harness should carry, because it is where a model is most likely to answer from the surrounding text alone.
The answer was well-formed and an assertion about what it decided did not hold.
modelgemini-3.5-flash
temperature0
scenarioscenarios/skeptic/nothing-attached-cannot-establish-identity.json
cassettec87f917c52229d1f…
latency0.0s
tokens2,120
What the model was given
System instructionassembled from the contract schema, not hand-written
You have not seen the Inspector's conclusion and must not guess it. Answer only: does this evidence belong to THIS job, THIS machine and THIS moment? Doubt is your job, and doubt means looking harder than anyone else will — but it does not mean dissenting whenever you are unsure. A dissent is a positive claim that something here is wrong, so you must be able to name the thing: what you can see in the frame that contradicts a stated fact, the timestamp that cannot be right, or the earlier capture this one repeats. "I could not confirm it" is not a mismatch and is never grounds on its own. Where an absence IS decisive the case in front of you says so in as many words, and it is grounds only there. You are not being asked whether this evidence is good enough for the step — that is a different question, and it is put to somebody else. Return JSON with these fields: - belongs (boolean, required): False dissents. Dissent is a deterministic escalation trigger: the step does not pass and a named person is raised the same day — so dissent on what you can point at, never on what you merely could not rule out. - confidence (number, required): 0 to 1. - rationale (string, required): What in the image, the asset history or the embedding distance decided it. - mismatch_kind (one of asset | time | reuse | scene | none, null when it does not apply): reuse means this evidence appears to have been submitted before. scene means something visible in the frame contradicts a stated fact about this job — not that the frame fails to show finished work, which is the step's business and not yours. - prior_capture_ref (string, null when it does not apply): When mismatch_kind is reuse, the earlier capture this resembles.
## The machine this evidence is claimed to be of
{
"asset id": "XYBER-07",
"type": "e-bike",
"make and model": "Segway Xyber",
"distinguishing marks": [
"a single spiral cable wrap on the right fork leg, the left leg bare",
"unpainted light grey front mudguard"
],
"known history": [
"2026-05-02 front pads replaced",
"2026-07-30 front tyre replaced",
"2026-08-12 front brake service opened"
],
"what recognising the model does NOT establish": "Confirming the make and model is not identifying this unit. The shop runs several machines of this exact model and colour, so a frame that would look the same photographed on any of them establishes nothing about which one this is. Identity comes from the distinguishing marks above, from a prior capture of this same unit, or from something in the frame unique to it. THIS IS THE ONE PLACE AN ABSENCE DECIDES IT: a job that names a specific registered machine is asserting that this frame is of that machine, and if none of those marks is present and there is nothing to compare against, the assertion is unsupported. Dissent, name 'asset', and say what was missing. Everywhere else you need something you can point at."
}
## The job this evidence is claimed to belong to
{
"job id": "J-4471",
"procedure": "Front brake service \u2014 Segway Xyber v3",
"opened at": "2026-08-19T09:00:00Z",
"location": "Workshop, El Chalt\u00e9n"
}
## The step this capture answers
{
"step": "Remove the caliper",
"position": "1 of 4",
"what this changes about the scene question": "A procedure runs several steps and its name describes the whole job, never a single frame. Steps routinely record a BEFORE state \u2014 the machine still together, the object still where it lay, the work not yet begun \u2014 and that state is the point of the capture rather than evidence against it. So judge this frame against the step named above, not against the procedure title. A frame that does not show the finished job is not a scene mismatch when the step asked for what came first, and the fact that you cannot tell which half of a before-and-after you are holding is not one either."
}
## The capture as recorded
{
"kind": "photo",
"created at": "2026-08-19T10:41:00Z",
"mode": "live",
"surface": "app_instrument",
"note": "live means the frame came off an open camera stream on the device"
}## The capture in question This is what was just submitted.
Nothing was attached. This is the other place an absence decides it: a capture with no evidence in it cannot be shown to belong to anything, and there is no frame here for you to point at. Dissent.
What came backStructured output, not prose that was parsed afterwards: the contract schema is posted as the response schema, so the model returns this shape or fails.
{
"belongs": false,
"confidence": 1,
"rationale": "No image or evidence was submitted with this capture, making it impossible to verify the machine, job, or step.",
"mismatch_kind": "asset",
"prior_capture_ref": null
}What this scenario asserted
Assertions pin the part of an answer that decides something, never the whole object — exact-matching a rationale would fail the first time it was reworded, and a suite that cries wolf is abandoned inside a day. Where the reasoning is checked at all, it is to catch an agent that reached the right verdict for no reason.
| asserted | about | what happened | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ok | is_false | belongs | is False |
| FAIL | lte | confidence | is 1.0, want <= 0.5 |
| ok | mentions_any | rationale | found ['no '] |