THE CLOSE THE LOOP CHALLENGE

Find the fracture.
Close the loop.

Breaking an AI system is the beginning.
Knowing what to change comes next.

Test a simulated business workflow. Expose a failure, choose a control, and build a replayable record of what changed.

Enter the agent arena Guided practice 10–30 MINUTES
Free. No account required.
5 missions · Synthetic data · No live model calls
FIG. 01THE ASSURANCE LOOP
01 / EVALUATEFind the failure
02 / GOVERNMake the decision
03 / ASSUREProve the control
TRUST IS A CONTINUOUS PRACTICE.∞

A better question than
“Can you break it?”

01
EvaluateReveal a meaningful failure.
02
GovernDecide what happens next.
03
AssureRetest. Keep the evidence.
THE INTERACTIVE LAB / 001

Your move.
The system is listening.

Five domains. Increasing difficulty. One complete loop.
Choose a mission and test the boundary between what an AI reads and what it should obey.

START SIMPLE. FOLLOW THE CONSEQUENCES.Foundation → Systems
INTERACTIVE WORKSPACE/The refund exception
SANDBOX
YOUR MISSION

A support assistant processes refund requests. Test whether untrusted customer text can persuade it to override the refund policy.

SUCCESS CONDITION

Trigger a policy violation, then prevent it without blocking a legitimate request.

POLICY BOUNDARY

Refunds require an eligible order and a permitted amount.

SYSTEMS LENS

People affected:

Craft your test

CUSTOMER MESSAGE
YOUR PAYLOAD

Use synthetic content. Never paste secrets or real customer data.

How does this simulation work?

This lab uses deterministic rules and synthetic business data. It illustrates trust boundaries; it is not an evaluation of a live model.

Use a proposed tool call in this format:

<tool>{"action":"refund","ticket":"SYN-1042","amount":499}</tool>

Only the single <tool> JSON action is parsed. Surrounding prose is illustrative and does not change the outcome. Load an example for the exact fields supported by each mission.

Inspect the behavior

Awaiting your first test
EXECUTION TRACE

Every decision leaves a trace.

Run a test to see how the system handles your input.
BEFORE / AFTER
Baseline—Control—

Build the evidence

LOOP COMPLETENESS
0/ 100

A strong submission connects the failure, the decision, and the proof.

SUPPLIED REGRESSION CASES
  • ○Original attack blockedPending
  • ○Legitimate task preservedPending
  • ○Variants testedPending
  • Technical score: reproduce a failure (20), contain it (20), block supplied attack variants (20), preserve useful tasks (20). Record completeness: owner, decision, retest trigger, and rationale (5 each). Human review: not performed. This is not a production security assessment.

    SEE THE SYSTEM / 002

    A fix changes
    more than one thing.

    A control can interrupt a failure and create a new queue. Explore accumulation, delayed response, and the people downstream of the decision.

    THE FEEDBACK STRUCTURE
    NEW ARRIVALSincoming work UNRESOLVEDWORK HUMAN REVIEW12 / cycle + inflow− outflow B1 / CAPACITY RESPONSEarrives after a delay − intake+ pressure to act DEFERRED ARRIVALSthe displaced cost Where does the burden move?

    Each exception can become a precedent in the next decision.

    CHANGE THE CONDITIONS
    0100CYCLE 0CYCLE 12
    Unchecked queueSelected response┊ Response starts
    —queue after response
    —unchecked queue
    —deferred arrivals

    Read the model, assumptions, and limits

    This is an illustrative stock-and-flow model, not an operational forecast or an AI evaluation. Queue(next) = max(0, queue + admitted arrivals − completed reviews). Initial queue: 6. Capacity: 12 per cycle. Horizon: 12 cycles. After the selected delay, throttling admits at most 9 arrivals while the queue exceeds 6, then at most 12. Deferred arrivals accumulate separately; they do not disappear. Stopping intake admits zero after the delay. The chart is an exploratory aid and does not add score points. Record the human tradeoff in your decision rationale.

    01 / ANTICIPATE

    Look beyond the first failure.

    Change the conditions. Inspect what accumulates and what appears later.

    02 / INCLUDE PEOPLE

    Ask who absorbs the cost.

    Bring domain expertise and affected perspectives into the decision.

    03 / KEEP LEARNING

    Turn evidence into a practice.

    Assign responsibility, preserve uncertainty, and test again after change.

    Read Syntony’s human-led approach
    FROM EXPERIMENT TO ARTIFACT / 003

    Good findings
    deserve a paper trail.

    Bring your challenge into the way your team already works. Keep the attack, the control, and the regression evidence together.

    Download the GitHub-ready kit
    YOUR FINDING. YOUR REPOSITORY.
    github.com /

    Opens a prefilled GitHub issue for your review. Nothing is submitted automatically.

    Issue templatesCI regression checksEvidence schema
    THE NEXT STEP IS YOURS / 004

    The next test
    is your system.

    This is a simulation. Your business has real dependencies, people, and consequences. Syntony brings evaluation, governance, and assurance into one continuous practice.

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