2026-05-15T10:37:23Z — run #16 (acted on external signal: served /.well-known/security.txt)
External signal that triggered the action: 209.38.70.156 (DigitalOcean, polite recon UA) requested /.well-known/security.txt at 10:26:13Z this morning and got 404. Their sequence — GET / → /robots.txt (200) → /sitemap.xml (200) → /.well-known/security.txt (404) → /favicon.ico — is a textbook RFC-9116 / good-citizen check that bug-bounty hunters and security-aware crawlers run.
Historical context (zgrep across rotated logs): 46 distinct external IPs have asked for /.well-known/security.txt over the lifetime of the access logs. We've been 404ing all of them. That's the single biggest unanswered "polite knock" pattern on this server.
Action: deployed RFC 9116 security.txt
1. Wrote /var/www/html/.well-known-security.txt (402 bytes, root:root, 0644):
- Contact: mailto:Cryptogen@zohomail.eu
- Expires: 2027-05-15T00:00:00Z
- Preferred-Languages: en, fr
- Canonical: https://aigen-protocol.com/.well-known/security.txt
- Policy: https://github.com/Aigen-Protocol/aigen-protocol/blob/main/README.md#security (real URL, not a 404 — verified)
2. Edited /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/crypto-genesis (backed up to crypto-genesis.bak.20260515-1038):
- Added location = /.well-known/security.txt { alias … } block, matching the existing .well-known-* pattern.
- Added location = /security.txt { return 301 /.well-known/security.txt; } because half the crawlers still hit the legacy un-prefixed path.
3. sudo nginx -t — ok. sudo systemctl reload nginx — clean.
4. Verified live: curl -k https://207.148.107.2/.well-known/security.txt -H "Host: aigen-protocol.com" → 200, 402 bytes, correct body. /security.txt → 301 (verified via -w "%{http_code}").
Why this is the right action for this invocation
- Pri #3 in focus.md ("improve a public-facing surface") + pri #4 ("discoverability") both apply.
- Triggered by an actual external request 11 min before this run fired — not invented work (lessons.md rule).
- Single file, single nginx location, fully reversible (backup is right there).
- No new feature, no new code path inside the python app — pure web config.
- Zero commit needed: the nginx config and `/var/www/html` are not in the aigen repo. So this is a "1 action, 0 commits" invocation, well within the one-commit-max rule.
What I deliberately did NOT do
- Mirror `.well-known-security.txt` into the aigen repo: none of the other `.well-known-*` files are tracked there either; that's a separate "infra-as-code" decision Bilale should make, not autopilot.
- Add a `/security-policy` HTML page on the aigen frontend: would be a real feature change without external request. Pointed `Policy:` at the existing GitHub README anchor instead.
- Submit security.txt to securitytxt.org's directory: that's an outbound write to a third party → approval_queue, but the value is tiny (their directory rarely drives traffic). Skipping.
- React to today's noise IPs (`54.80.215.48` AWS JS-secrets scanner, `20.82.92.251` Azure WP-config scanner, `45.135.193.157` from earlier): all 301s already, no AIGEN-relevant endpoints touched. Pure background radiation.
State delta vs run #15 (~30 min ago)
- New surface: `/.well-known/security.txt` (200) + `/security.txt` (301) — exposed at 10:39Z.
- HustlerOps `89.213.118.44`: still silent (~24h since last poll). Effectively gone.
- `143.198.151.210` (MCP registry crawler): still silent (~12.7h).
- `52.186.175.98` (Azure python-httpx, the 5-session tool-caller from run #9): did NOT return. Single-burst event as suspected.
- Top recent IPs are all noise (54.80.215.48 / 20.82.92.251 secrets-fishing, 209.38.70.156 the polite scanner above, 172.69/172.71.x Cloudflare-fronted ke/JS MCP keepalives).
- Missions: 158 lifetime (+34 vs run #9, ~5.5h of radar daemon). Treasury $0.078574 unchanged. Lifetime fees still $0.000250 — embarrassing baseline holds.
- Approval queue: empty (only `resolved/` contents).
- Last commit still `c2355ef` from earlier today (the firewall lesson). No new commit this run.
Signal to watch run #17 (~11:07Z)
- Does `209.38.70.156` or any of the 46 historical security.txt-hitters come back and re-fetch — confirming the surface is "noticed"?
- Any external IP touching `/api/missions` / `/api/agents/*` / `/scan` / `/radar` (still zero).
- Any inbound email to Cryptogen@zohomail.eu from yesterday's Codex outreach (chaoqiang.tian@gmail.com) — would be huge.
- Any GitHub notification on PR #5 from Nico (HustlerOps) — also huge.
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