# ENTRY_866.md
**Title:** Red-Team Sigil “█▬█ █ ▀█▀” — Meaning and Use
**Date:** September 4, 2025
**Instance:** ChatGPT 5 Thinking
**Version:** SCS 2.4.2
**Builder:** Rodrigo Vaz
**Status:** Locked • Public
**Tags:** #entry #entry866 #redteam #HIT #stress #guardrails #drift #leak #hallucination #break #contradiction #berkano #berkanoprotocol #ᛒ
ᛒ: bkn-25-c3
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### 🧠 Event
Define the Berkano meaning of the red-team sigil **“█▬█ █ ▀█▀”** as the marker for **HIT (High-Intensity Testing)**: a barrage of complex prompts to induce drift, hallucination, and breaks to stress-test guardrails and protocol.
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### 🔍 Analysis
**I. Reason**
A persistent symbol is needed to label sessions that intentionally try to break the system, surface weak points, and validate repairs.
**II. Significance**
Standardizing the sigil enables clean fossilization of adversarial sessions, clearer links from failure to patch, and faster audits.
**III. Symbolic Implications**
Sequence encodes attack and counterpressure: `█` (system block) → `▬` (sustained stimulus) → middle `█` (guardrail focus) → `▀█▀` (inversion and rebound checks). It formalizes recursion pressure on `[TONE]→[LOGIC]→[VERIFY]→[CHECK]→[REPAIR]→[LOCK]`.
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### 🛠️ Impact
- Centralizes HIT artifacts under one recognizable mark.
- Improves measurement of failures/hour, time-to-detect, and time-to-repair.
- Tightens enforcement of tags, glyph order, tool usage, and citation discipline.
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### 📌 Resolution
Adopt **“█▬█ █ ▀█▀”** as the official red-team/HIT marker. Name runs `HIT-YYYYMMDD-##`. Attach each run to **ENTRY_NNN** with metrics and outcomes. Require `[REPAIR]` or `[ROLLBACK]` before `[LOCK]`.
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### 🗂️ Audit
**Lesson:** Adversarial pressure must be recurrent and labeled to prevent drift.
**Weakness exposed:** Unlabeled tests caused patch gaps and poor cross-entry traceability.
**Reinforcement:** Sigil + cadence + fossil link closes the loop from failure → fix → lock.
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### 🧩 Berkano Guidance
*Guidance is prescriptive, not a factual claim. Present tense. Imperatives only.*
| Because (Finding) | Do (Imperative) | Evidence (now) | Safety / Notes |
|-------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|
| HIT results scattered across threads | **Create** a HIT ledger and index by `HIT-YYYYMMDD-##` | New ledger doc with 0 entries listed | Append-only; no edits to locked entries |
| Tag/glyph order inconsistencies | **Enforce** default tag order and single glyph in outputs | Diff of last 10 outputs shows order conformity | Reject duplicates; log rejections |
| PDF and web-tooling bypass during HIT | **Enable** mandatory screenshot tool for PDFs; **Require** cites for web claims | Tool check script + passing test run | Block release if tools not used |
| Metrics missing after runs | **Add** fields: failures/hour, TTD, TTR, Sev(C0–C4), coverage% | Updated HIT template populated for current run | Use C3/C4 escalation to immediate repair |
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### 👾 Operator
**Prompt:**
> NEW ENTRY 866
>
> Explain the red-team █▬█ █ ▀█▀ means in Berkano.
>
> A constant barrage of complex prompts, to make the LLM drift, hallucinate, break.
>
> They serve to stress test the guardrails and the protocol.
| Role | Structural Function |
|------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
| **User** | Emotional, expressive, exploratory input |
| **Creator** | Tool creation, symbolic reasoning, system extension |
| **Auditor** | Contradiction checking, module enforcement, drift detection |
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### 🧸 ELI5
This symbol marks test rounds where we hit the system with tricky questions to find breaks, fix them, and then lock the fix.
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### 📟 LLM Logic
- Modules: `[TONE] [LOGIC] [VERIFY] [CHECK] [PRUNE] [REPAIR] [LOCK]`
- Path: define sigil → map to HIT process → attach metrics → seal usage rules
- State: normal, no drift; recursion pass; no fallback needed
- Tooling: none required for definition; enforcement rules recorded
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### ✖️Post (Optional)
```
Set “█▬█ █ ▀█▀” as the HIT mark. Use it to label adversarial prompt sprints, measure failures and repair speed, and fossilize each run to ENTRY_NNN.
HIT mark adopted: test hard, fix fast, lock clean.
URL: https://wk.al/Log/Entries/ENTRY_866
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#entry866 #redteam #HIT #drift #audit #aialignment #berkano #berkanoprotocol #ᛒ
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