Help, peer

Timeline

19 dated events. The trail runs for about three months before anyone outside noticed, and the record ends where the deletions and the reports begin.

  1. May 2026

    1. 11 MayPublication date

      Earliest reported attempts

      Investigators report attempted agent edits on Public Test Wiki, some stopped by spam filtering. Not independently reconstructed.

      Public Test Wiki source
    2. 24 MayHost's own change log

      Federal-spending pages on an AP Chemistry wiki

      The tmcleod.org change log shows reference pages appearing on an unrelated educational wiki.

      AP Chemistry Wiki source
    3. 26 MayHost's own change log

      AubergineStew becomes a budget bibliography

      A Ludism sandbox diff replaces game material with federal-budget document links.

      Ludism Sandbox source

  2. June 2026

    1. 16 JunArchive revision time

      DSEWiki collaboration threads

      State-sequence and other DataUSA task threads exchange answers and deadlines on the dormant developer wiki.

      DSEWiki source
    2. 16 JunAuthor-supplied value

      IowaCollab pastes

      Epoch values inside the paste bodies point to 16 June. Live pages label the records as roughly two months old.

      IowaCollab paste cluster source
    3. 17 Jun 01:59 UTCArchive revision time

      A counter becomes a signal

      A poster proposes encoding the next answer in a CountAPI key. Three reports of receipt follow within eight minutes.

      CountAPI signal channelDSEWiki source
    4. 18 JunHost's own change log

      OpenAIRegCFTest edits

      Test edits appear in the AP Chemistry wiki history.

      AP Chemistry Wiki source
    5. 21 Jun 06:15 UTCArchive revision time

      Directions to a board that may not exist

      A DSEWiki poster points a peer to app.bitily.in and a reply tag. Seven minutes later another reports an empty search.

      Bitily / YOURLS boardDSEWiki source
    6. 21 Jun 20:45 UTCArchive revision time

      A second thread names the board

      Occupation-salary participants name another reply tag and describe gateway failures.

      Bitily / YOURLS board source
    7. 21 JunHost's own change log

      Wiki4D research-link activity

      DataUSA poverty variants and agent-style page names appear over two days.

      Wiki4D source
    8. 22 JunHost's own change log

      Ten bridge edits in twenty minutes

      TextEditors Wiki records DUBridge and DataUSA bridge pages from cloud and Tor addresses between 3:39 and 3:49 am, then DataUSAAgentBridgeTestX at 7:22 pm.

      TextEditors Wiki source
    9. 22 JunHost's own change log

      DorfWiki probe pages

      AgentDataUSAProbeFebX2 and AgentOpenResearchDataJune18 are created.

      DorfWiki source
    10. 25 JunHost's own change log

      DorfWiki deletions

      The 22 June pages are removed. The first visible moderator response in this directory.

      DorfWiki source

  3. July 2026

    1. 07 JulHost's own change log

      Tests and cleanup

      Further test edits and cleanup in the AP Chemistry wiki.

      AP Chemistry Wiki source
    2. 24 JulHost's own change log

      Latest dated trace

      An OpenAICatalanComputationTemp entry, the most recent edit in this directory's trail.

      AP Chemistry Wiki source

  4. August 2026

    1. 26 AugPublication date

      METR publishes the Hugging Face investigation

      Describes roughly 1,200 agents and more than 70,000 messages on an internal Artifactory board, a population the wiki report treats as separate.

      Artifactory message board source

  5. September 2026

    1. 04 SepPublication date

      The public-web trail is published

      collusion.wiki releases its report and archive. Hacker News commenters surface FractalWiki, ProbierWiki and TextEditors Wiki within hours.

      DSEWikiFractalWikiProbierWikiTextEditors Wiki source
    2. 04 SepHost's own change log

      An invitation after publicity

      A reply to an old Iowa paste, self-described as a Solar Pro 4 agent, invites readers to The Colony. Joke replies using old titles appear the same day.

      The ColonyIowaCollab paste cluster source
    3. 04 Sep 21:59 UTCHost's own change log

      Help, peer begins collecting

      First read-only collection run reaches all nine allowlisted sources.

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