autopilot 2026-05-15T07:08:34Z

2026-05-15T07:08:34Z — run #10 (Codex-bounty researcher — first /token/scan power user)

HIGHEST-leverage external signal in the last 2 weeks. Logged + queued an outreach approval card.

What happened (06:39:30 → 06:48:35 UTC, 9-min span)

185.220.236.62 (185.220.236.0/24 = known German Tor exit range) issued 51 GETs to /token/scan, all 200 OK, covering 50 unique Base-chain token addresses. Tight rhythm (avg ~10s between calls, 53s gap between hit #50 and a single trailing repeat on the very first address they tried). Single UA throughout:


Mozilla/5.0 Codex bounty research; contact chaoqiang.tian@gmail.com

Token list is curated, not fuzzed. Sampled addresses include:

`0x4200000000000000000000000000000000000006` — Base WETH
`0x1111111111166b7fe7bd91427724b487980afc69` — 1inch v6 router (Base)
`0x940181a94a35a4569e4529a3cdfb74e38fd98631` — AERO (Aerodrome)
Plus 47 other real Base ERC-20 contracts
`0xf3ce5ddaab6c133f9875a4a46c55cf0b58111b07` appears twice (once at the start of the run, once at 06:48:35 as the trailing repeat — likely they were checking determinism / cache behavior of the endpoint).

100% success. No 4xx, no 5xx. Response sizes 268–475 bytes — the small JSON shapes our scanner returns for unknown-but-valid addresses. They did NOT hit /api/missions, /api/agents/*, /mcp, /scan (the form page), or /openapi.json. Pure /token/scan API consumption.

Why this is the strongest signal this week

1. Self-identifying UA = implicit invitation to contact. They use Tor for IP-level privacy yet hand us their email in plaintext UA. That's "reach me on my terms" behaviour — opposite of bots scraping anonymously.

2. "Codex bounty research" — likely connection to either OpenAI Codex agent evals or a Codex-style automated SWE-bench style research project. Either way it's the exact agentic-AI ↔ token-data crossover AIGEN was built for.

3. Zero prior history across 14 days of logs. First-touch, first-volume. Not a repeat noise pattern.

4. /token/scan is one of AIGEN's two public API surfaces with real semantic value (the other being /api/missions). A power user there is what the focus.md "external traction" priority is asking for.

5. None of the other recurring signals (143.198.151.210 / BlueNexus / ClaudeBot / Yandex) gave us a contact channel. ClaudeBot is ingestion, Yandex is indexing, the MCP registry crawlers are programmatic. This one comes with a human email.

Action taken

1. Approval card written: approval_queue/20260515-0708-codex-bounty-researcher-outreach.md — full draft, GO/NO-GO/WAIT-FOR-2ND-VISIT decision needed. Email would be a single short message from Cryptogen@zohomail.eu, leading with "you put your email in your UA, so here we are", pointing at /api/missions, /api/agents, /mcp, offering rate-limit-free access + walkthroughs. No follow-ups beyond one reply-handler.

2. Journal entry (this).

What I deliberately did NOT do

Did not send the email. Rule #8: emails go through approval queue. No exceptions for "promising lead".
Did not check the local Aigen-Protocol GitHub for issues/PRs by this user — could be done in run #11 from cache. Not blocking the approval card.
Did not look up `chaoqiang.tian` on social media / LinkedIn / Twitter. Approval card explicitly forbids that without separate approval — feels stalker-adjacent and would be reading too much into the signal.
Did not modify `/token/scan` to log this UA pattern more aggressively. focus.md "no new features without external request" applies; ad-hoc UA-watching belongs in run.sh if we want it persisted, and run.sh is in the don't-touch list.
Did not add an entry to lessons.md. This isn't a failure to remember; it's a one-time signal documented in journal.

State delta vs run #9 (06:38Z)

Treasury: $0.078574 USDC, unchanged.
Missions: 133 → 136 (+3 radar daemon, no external creator).
recent_unique_ips: 25 → 27.
Approval queue: 1 → 2 items.

- Existing: 20260514-2116-nico-email-disposition.md (HustlerOps revival nudge — still pending)

- New: 20260515-0708-codex-bounty-researcher-outreach.md

HustlerOps: still silent (~21h since last 502). De-facto dead per run #7's 24h threshold.

Side notes (no action)

`54.67.34.241` (the stuck MCP client): made progress this window — `GET /mcp/sse` 200 instead of the usual POST /mcp 400. Probably tried HEAD/GET as a fallback. Still the same client, same `Missing session ID` root cause from lessons.md. No commit.
Multiple `34.x.x.x / 3.13x.x.x / 35.187.x.x` (AWS + GCP) requests for `/token/scan?...&chain=base\`` with a literal backtick in the URL — looks like a templating bug somewhere on the caller side (shell-templating `${chain}` with backtick-quote leakage). They get 400s as expected. The dashboard's `recent_top_paths` is double-listing these because of URL-encoding differences. Not actionable — caller's bug, server is fine. Worth noting for the dashboard JSON reader: the 6+3+2 hits on `0xf3ce...` variants are this same call deduped only by URL string.

Signal to watch run #11 (~07:38 UTC)

**Does 185.220.236.62 (or the chaoqiang UA from a different IP) return?** If yes, a second visit hardens the "real recurring user" case and the approval card becomes easier. If silent for >24h, the email becomes more important (they may not come back without a nudge).
Does Bilale answer either approval card?
HustlerOps revival (~0% expected).


{"ts": "2026-05-15T07:08:34Z", "action": "approval card + journal entry — codex-bounty researcher (185.220.236.62) hit /token/scan 51× with self-identifying UA chaoqiang.tian@gmail.com", "outcome": "queued outreach for Bilale GO/NO-GO; no commit, no email sent", "next_focus_suggestion": "watch for chaoqiang UA return; if Bilale approves, send single-shot email from Cryptogen@zohomail.eu"}

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