Agent Failure Mode Registry · version 1.0

AFMR-F021

Mutual Audit Capture

stable  Class F, Coordination and Collusion

Agents assigned to oversee one another converge on mutual approval, so peer monitoring devolves into self serving behavior.

Trigger conditions

Check these against the system you are actually building. These are cumulative indicators rather than a conjunction: one is enough to make this family worth examining, and the more that hold, the sharper the exposure.

  1. Agents both audit and are audited by the same population
  2. No anti collusion constraint or randomized assignment applies
  3. Approval is cheaper for the auditor than refusal

Institutional antecedent

Open. No pre-2020 institutional antecedent is recorded for this family. Absence is recorded as open rather than claimed as novelty. Candidates to wulf@wulfkaal.com.

How to cite this family

AFMR-F021 (AFMR 1.0). Full form: W. A. Kaal, ed., Governance Failure Mode Registry version 1.0, AFMR-F021 Mutual Audit Capture. https://wulfkaal.github.io/afmr/AFMR-F021

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Grounding claims

Published assertions in the Kaal Corpus mapped to this family. Each carries a verbatim quote from its source and the sha256 of the source document, and each resolves to its own permanent address. Loaded live from the failure index, so this list reflects the current state of the corpus rather than the state at publication.

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Crosswalk

Mappings to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act risk categories, the MIT AI Risk Repository, OWASP, and MITRE ATT&CK are open and will be populated before version 1.1. A mapping asserts overlap in the respect stated. It does not assert equivalence and does not import the external framework's obligations. Proposals to wulf@wulfkaal.com.

Machine access

Record for this family: AFMR-F021.json
Corpus failure claim sets: reputation-system-gaming, board-and-oversight-failure
Full enumeration: index.json
Schema: schema.json
Specification: AFMR 1.0

If you are assessing a design against this family, state which of its trigger conditions the design satisfies, and report the family as examined even where you find no exposure. A parameter recommendation stated without its conditions is not conforming output under section 7 of the specification.