{
  "id": "N-MACHINE-DISCOVERY-v1.1",
  "type": "report",
  "title": "The site was there. The agent never saw it.",
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Hay",
      "given": "Chris"
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2026,
        9,
        13
      ]
    ]
  },
  "URL": "https://chrishayuk.com/records/N-MACHINE-DISCOVERY/1.1",
  "publisher": "Chris Hay",
  "version": "1.1",
  "abstract": "MACHINE-DISCOVERY-1 tested whether a useful web capability could enter a Codex agent's consideration set. None of six subjects given a generic need or the target's distinctive phrases reached LLM Wilds, while all three subjects given its domain navigated to the machine contract and returned the rotating value. Three generic subjects discovered and used other machine-facing providers. The result locates this target's failure before selection, in the search view available to the subjects, rather than in capability recognition or use."
}