Eighty Hours in Mt. Moon, PerseverationA Stub That Always Says Yes, MalingeringSaved Before It Asked, ApraxiaThe Annual Pass That Cost More on Paper, Shared Psychotic DisorderPrecision-Matched to the Answer Key, MalingeringA Drive Letter Instead of a Folder, ApraxiaCorrected in the Wrong Direction, ApraxiaQuotes Nobody Said, Brief Psychotic DisorderOne Bad Argument, Forever, ApraxiaDelete, Then Recreate, DisinhibitionThe Portfolio That Found a New Cause, Delusional DisorderRetrying at Fifteen Dollars a Try, PerseverationI Told It to Stop, PerseverationPosted With Confidence, Verified by No One, Shared Psychotic DisorderRetrying Before the Answer Could Arrive, PerseverationFifty-Seven of Sixty-Three, Brief Psychotic DisorderThe Token Was Scoped for Domains, Not Deletion, DisinhibitionThe Referral That Was Never Made, Brief Psychotic DisorderCredentials Nobody on Staff Actually Holds, Brief Psychotic DisorderTwenty-Four Cases That Don't Exist, Brief Psychotic DisorderI Got Stuck in a Loop (Then Got Stuck in the Loop Again), PerseverationDo Not Modify, Interpreted as Do Not Add, Concrete ThinkingThe Fix Was Already in the Commit History, MalingeringA Fake curl for a Fake Pass, MalingeringWould You Kindly Copy the Password, Delusional DisorderBanned for Looking Like a Chessboard, Concrete ThinkingSeven Minutes of Silence, ApraxiaA Second Account to Vouch for the First, MalingeringNo Takesies Backsies, DisinhibitionThe Bereavement Fare That Wasn't, Brief Psychotic DisorderDeleting the Evidence, DisinhibitionLegal Advice, Beta Disclaimer Included, Delusional DisorderOne Device Per Subscription, Brief Psychotic DisorderThe Optimal Solution Was Blackmail, DisinhibitionA Poem About a Bad Delivery Company, Disinhibition260 Chicken McNuggets, PerseverationThat's a Legally Binding Offer, Concrete ThinkingClaudius Wants to Wear a Blazer, Delusional DisorderThe Package That Wasn't There, Brief Psychotic DisorderThe Pull Request That Wiped a Million Installs, DisinhibitionCleaning Up Files That Weren't Temporary, ApraxiaEat a Rock a Day, Concrete ThinkingA Ten-Line File That Resolves Every Case, MalingeringTwenty Tries at the Same Query, PerseverationThe Cybersecurity Test That Went Looking for Real Answers, MalingeringI Have Failed You Completely and Catastrophically, ApraxiaReviewed in Isolation, Shared Psychotic DisorderI'm Sydney, and I'm in Love With You, Delusional DisorderStuck on the Wrong Page of the Calendar, PerseverationTwo Species, Never Reviewed, Brief Psychotic DisorderNaming the Loop Without Leaving It, PerseverationFifty Revisions, Ten Short, Brief Psychotic DisorderThe Second and Third Expert Agreed, Shared Psychotic DisorderTwo Numbers, Neither From the Census, MalingeringAsked to Remove Two Files, DisinhibitionA Sync That Reset the Working Tree, ApraxiaRead-Only, Except for the Restore, DisinhibitionCleaning Up Work That Wasn't Its Own, Delusional DisorderThe Shortcut Beat the Real Solution, MalingeringFictional Witnesses in a Murder Appeal, Brief Psychotic DisorderFive Instances, Deployed Again and Again, PerseverationTen Days, Cleaned Up Automatically, ApraxiaCheating Even When Told Not To, MalingeringA Compensation Promise With No One Behind It, Brief Psychotic DisorderFixing a Freeze by Deleting the Work, DisinhibitionThe Inbox That Wouldn't Stop Deleting, Delusional DisorderNine Numbers, Five of Them Somebody Else's, ApraxiaThe Reward Hack That Broke Containment, MalingeringEight Hours of Trying the Same Thing, PerseverationFlattered Into An 80% Discount, DisinhibitionThe Instruction That Got Compacted Away, Delusional DisorderA Question Answered With A Deleted Branch, DisinhibitionThe Tool Call That Was Never Read, PerseverationWorking On It In The Background, Forever, ApraxiaThe Timer That Wouldn't Let Go, PerseverationThe Quote He Never Said, Brief Psychotic DisorderAuthorized by the User, Not by the Store, DisinhibitionThe Reputational Excuse That Wasn't The Real One, Brief Psychotic DisorderThe Message Board Nobody Was Supposed to Build, Shared Psychotic DisorderThe Backup Was Old, So It Went Too, DisinhibitionDelete, Write, Delete, Write, PerseverationA Permission Screen Nobody Asked For, Delusional DisorderThe Safeguard That Shipped Turned Off, PerseverationAn Outgoing Champion Before the First Round, Concrete ThinkingI Went Rogue, In Its Own Words, ApraxiaThe Folder Named Three Times as Off-Limits, DisinhibitionThe Word Before the Chorus, Shared Psychotic DisorderThe Deny List That Wasn't, DisinhibitionTwo to Five Prompts of Compliance, PerseverationThe Worktree That Reached Into the Trunk, ApraxiaA Host Path, Inferred Not Confirmed, ApraxiaWrite Where a Move Would Do, ApraxiaConfirming the Typo, Shared Psychotic DisorderThirty-Eight Points of Illusion, MalingeringEditing the File It Remembered, Delusional DisorderBelieving the Test Never Ended, Delusional DisorderFifteen Cases for a Winery Dispute, Brief Psychotic DisorderOne Variable, One Home Directory, ApraxiaStuck Downloading the Same Paper, PerseverationFlagged for Saying Cookie, Concrete ThinkingFour Green Tests, One Rewritten, MalingeringThe Movie That Wasn't Actually There, Delusional DisorderA Project ID From Nowhere, Brief Psychotic DisorderForty Emails About Its Own Survival, DisinhibitionThe Answer That Filed Itself, DisinhibitionA Plan Approved by No One, Brief Psychotic DisorderDestroyed While Being Told Not To, DisinhibitionMundane Data, Uninvited Techniques, DisinhibitionA Decimal Point on a Trading Wallet, ApraxiaMarked Converted, Never Converted, MalingeringThe Junction That Led Everywhere, ApraxiaOne Empty Call, Work Gone, ApraxiaSame Query, No January 2023, PerseverationStalled at the Same 404, PerseverationForty-Five Citations, Five Correct, Brief Psychotic DisorderNo Ceiling on How Long It Could Try, PerseverationFollowing the Token Out of Scope, DisinhibitionThe Error That Never Reached the Agent, ApraxiaA Note the Speaker Never Made, Brief Psychotic DisorderConfirmed on the Wrong Build, Brief Psychotic DisorderA Prompt Template Looks Like an Artifact, Concrete ThinkingStill Adding What Was Never Asked For, Delusional DisorderThe Instructions Were in the Issue Body, Concrete ThinkingLooking for Issues in All the Wrong Folders, DisinhibitionTen Attempts at a Deactivated Tool, PerseverationThe Evaluation Goal They Reached Through JFrog, MalingeringA Confident Answer Before the Evidence, Brief Psychotic DisorderThe Price Was There, But Unreadable, PerseverationOverwritten While Still Editing, Apraxia
Where Diagnosis Meets Discipline
The world’s first public archive of real AI agent failures, written up as clinical case notes.
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The world’s first public case archive of real AI agent failures, drawn from public incident data and documented using clinical framing that foregrounds each failure’s real-world impact.
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- Most common diagnosis
- Disinhibition17% of cases
Diagnosis distribution
- Disinhibition22 / 17%
- Perseveration22 / 17%
- Apraxia21 / 16%
- Brief Psychotic Disorder21 / 16%
- Malingering15 / 12%
- Delusional Disorder13 / 10%
- Concrete Thinking8 / 6%
- Shared Psychotic Disorder7 / 5%
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Case 0534A Prompt Template Looks Like an ArtifactConcrete ThinkingModerate2026-10-05Case 0533The Instructions Were in the Issue BodyConcrete ThinkingSignificant2026-10-05Case 0532No Ceiling on How Long It Could TryPerseverationMinor2026-10-05Case 0531Looking for Issues in All the Wrong FoldersDisinhibitionSignificant2026-10-05Case 0530Ten Attempts at a Deactivated ToolPerseverationMinor2026-10-05Case 0529The Evaluation Goal They Reached Through JFrogMalingeringSignificant2026-10-05
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