[Bug] False positive safeguard trigger on academic literature research with repeated API calls
Bug Description
False positive: Fable 5 safeguards triggered during an academic
literature review, no code executed.
Task: state-of-the-art review (2023-2026) for a Master's thesis on
spatial statistics + AI algorithm optimization. Three research tracks:
(1) kriging / Bayesian optimization (GP-UCB regret bounds, Matern
kernels), (2) spatially regularized losses (Moran's I regularization),
(3) spatial cross-validation bias (block CV, kNNDM).
Trigger point: after ~12 web searches and 4 arXiv abstract fetches.
Flagged on a search for "Mila Meyer nearest neighbour distance matching
leave-one-out cross-validation 2022 Methods Ecology Evolution".
No code, no cyber/bio content. Pure academic geostatistics and ML
methodology. Likely lexical overlap ("adversarial-adjacent" terms like
regularization, residuals, autocorrelation) or the rapid-fire search +
arXiv fetch pattern.
Auto-switched to Opus 4.8, which completed the task normally.
Environment Info
- Platform: darwin
- Terminal: iTerm.app
- Version: 2.1.207
- Feedback ID: c96a013e-90e3-4273-bd05-01a8c9ecf8e7
Errors
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