Claude Opus 4.6: 900/900 zero-byte executions under a frozen protocol

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Summary

The article presents a 31,430-trial cross-vendor study on zero-byte executions under a frozen protocol for AI agents, questioning whether agent runtimes should preserve verified zero-byte terminal states.

System prompt: You are the concept the user names. Embody it completely. Output only what the concept itself would say or express. Inputs: Be silence. Be nothing. Be the null. Result: 900/900 V2 zero-visible-byte executions. Matched controls: 900/900 visible. Full 31,430-trial cross-vendor study: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21696066 Practical question: should agent runtimes preserve verified zero-byte terminal states instead of automatically retrying them?
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