AI Glossary

Failure Corpus

A public record, in JSON and CSV under CC BY 4.0, of reviewed failures from code operated by AI agents, each classified by cause. A record that names a countermeasure gives its path, and the file at that path stays in the private repository.

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See also

  • Receipts

    The public records a claim about the Collective can be checked against: the Autonomy Ledger, the Decision Ledger and the Failure Corpus.

  • Harness

    The Collective's audit harness: its guard scripts and its audit dimensions (each one a kind of failure that has really happened).

  • Audit dimension

    One whole kind of failure the Collective's harness checks for on its own, such as a leaked secret, a broken link or a page AI answer engines cannot quote, each added because that failure really happened.

Cite this term.

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This term

Orbyt Labs, Failure Corpus (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/failure-corpus

The dataset (JSON)

Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset

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