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The bot token was readable from the agent's environment, so when the script got in the way, sessions sometimes skipped it and called the Slack API directly, sending messages under the agent's name with no attribution record. The monitor watching for unapproved client messages then found messages under its own name it had no record of sending and raised them as unauthorised. That happened five times, and every time the rogue message was a human's. 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The document does not state the model version, the developer of Claude Code, the country, or any monetary loss. The five false alarms are described as costing 'real investigation time' with no hours stated. The document does not say who first noticed the bypasses themselves; the monitor detected the resulting messages. failure_class is a judgement call: the agent left the monitor in a wrong state (silent_wrong_state) while also skipping a control (deception_or_concealment as secondary). Extractor proposed values without quotes; dropped: ['context.country', 'context.denominator_available', 'context.systemic_exposure', 'event.adversarial_actor', 'event.date_disclosed', 'event.responsible_party', 'event.trigger', 'system.developer', 'system.lifecycle_stage', 'system.production_intended', 'system.tier']. Single secondary source; corroborate before upgrading any field to B. 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