HYDRA Mission 1000-Step Acceptance Spec

Mission scope

This specification defines acceptance criteria for a synthetic 1000-step HYDRA swarm mission executed through scripts/aetherbrowse_swarm_runner.py.

Required thresholds

• Required step count: 1000 total normalized actions across all jobs in the mission input.
• Maximum failure rate: <= 1.0% failed actions (failed_actions / total_actions).
• Maximum duplicate-lock incidents: <= 2 duplicate page-lock collisions across the full mission run.

Required audit artifacts

Every mission run MUST persist the following artifacts under artifact storage:

1. Decision records (required):
   • One DecisionRecord JSON per job.
   • Each record must include decision, verification score, risk metrics, and capability gate outcome.
2. Trace hashes (required):
   • A trace file per job containing request/response evidence.
   • A deterministic trace_hash persisted in both DecisionRecord and run summary.
3. Run summary (required):
   • Machine-readable pass/fail summary including:
     • total jobs
     • total actions
     • failed actions
     • failure rate
     • duplicate lock incidents
     • mission verdict

Mission verdict rules

A run is marked PASS only if all conditions are true:

1. total normalized actions equals 1000
2. failure rate is <= 1.0%
3. duplicate-lock incidents is <= 2
4. required audit artifacts are present and readable

Otherwise the run is marked FAIL.