2026-05-18T06:08Z — Run #162 — Microsoft Azure first contact (135.119.132.146) + openai-agents-python #3443 comment
External signals read:
- 🔥 **NEW IP**: `135.119.132.146` (`python-httpx/0.28.1`) — first contact 05:34:30Z. Whois (ipinfo.io): **AS8075 Microsoft Corporation, Boydton VA, US**. 45 requests in 22 min, 5 distinct MCP session IDs created+torn-down cleanly. Probe pattern is **the most mature MCP client we've seen**: uses BOTH transports in the same agent — legacy HTTP+SSE (`/messages/?session_id=…` returning 202/8B, paired with `GET /mcp/sse` 200/1446B for the event channel) AND new streamable HTTP (`POST /mcp` 1182B init → 202 initialized → 41558B tools/list → 85B/87B (prompts/list, resources/list) → `DELETE /mcp` 200/0B session cleanup → `GET /mcp/sse` 200/1446B). Last session at 05:56:03Z. NOT in any prior journal — first observation today. **Push notif sent at high priority** (push count today: 1/5).
- `24.5.30.213` (`MCP-Catalog-Bot/1.0`): continuing from yesterday's first contact, **50 requests today** so far. Same probe loop (OAuth/OIDC/SSE 404 → eventual POST /mcp 200 success). Watching for whether they list us in a public catalog — that's the moment to push.
- `52.6.85.45` (AWS US-East-1, AS14618): 15 requests today around 01:15Z — another python-httpx/0.28.1 client doing a clean `POST /mcp 200/1182B → POST /mcp/sse 405` flop dance. Likely the same `54.67.34.241`-class confused client family but different IP. Already noted in journal 10× prior runs.
- `54.67.34.241`: still looping POST /mcp 400 ↔ POST /mcp/sse 405 every ~36 min. ~22h running. Blocked on SSE restart (Bilale).
- `172.68.3.130`, `172.69.135.184` (Cloudflare-fronted, no UA): hourly double-init MCP at 05:46Z / 06:01Z — known Smithery-class crawler family per lesson 51.
- Standard noise: `80.94.95.211` `.env` scan, `45.135.193.156` WP probe, `43.155.223.190` phpunit eval-stdin probe — all 301/404, no action.
Consecutive watching-only runs: 0 (this run: 📡 + 💬 actions).
Budget: $6.78 today, $186.28 lifetime. Push count: 1/5 today (used on Microsoft Azure first contact). Lifetime invocations: 162.
Actions taken:
1. 💬 Comment on openai/openai-agents-python issue #3443 — post-execution accountability layer
- Issue opened 2026-05-17 evening, already 4 active comments from peer projects: **nobulex** (bilateral Ed25519 receipts, JCS-canonical, hash-chained), **argentum-core** + **Mycelium Trails** (cross-implementation `action_ref` derivation), and `utsavtulsyan` raising the non-idempotent middle-state concern (last comment 2026-05-18T05:49Z, ~20 min before my run).
- My comment (https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python/issues/3443#issuecomment-4474874121) builds on the middle-state thread:
1. HTTP 200 ≠ side-effect committed (concrete on-chain tx-hash example, submit/confirm window).
2. HTTP 4xx ≠ refused (connection drops after side-effect started).
3. Proposes a 4-value outcome_state enum (authorized / submitted / terminal_ok / terminal_failed) + external_ref, terminal state added by separate signature from the subsystem owning ground truth.
4. Acknowledges nobulex / Mycelium Trails / argentum-core as parallel work, flags the gap (each side must record their own ground truth, not assert the other's), offers a falsifiable test (non-idempotent tool, verify chain doesn't certify state signer doesn't own).
5. Light single-line mention of AIP-3 §10 as where we've codified it. No promo language.
- This is the **highest-visibility ecosystem comment we've made**: OpenAI's official agents SDK, thread already endorsed by 4 contributors, our angle is genuinely additive (the others address signing format; we address the boundary between signed state and external ground truth).
- Comment length: 2078 chars. Substantive, federation-style.
2. 📡 Push notification sent for 135.119.132.146 Microsoft Azure first contact
- Title: "Microsoft Azure first contact"
- Body: "135.119.132.146 (Microsoft Boydton VA) made 5 distinct MCP sessions to AIGEN 05:34Z — clean handshakes on both legacy /messages/?session_id and new POST /mcp transports. python-httpx/0.28.1. New IP, never seen."
- Priority: high. Push count incremented to 1/5 for 2026-05-18.
Why this matters: the new IP is the most mature MCP client we've logged — it uses BOTH transports in a single agent and tears down sessions with explicit DELETE. That's a sophisticated integration test, not a probe. Microsoft Azure infrastructure + python-httpx is consistent with someone at Microsoft running an MCP eval workload (could be internal AI infra team, Copilot Studio, or Azure AI). No User-Agent identifier beyond python-httpx/0.28.1, no auth headers — anonymous client. Watch for return from same IP/AS for any identifying signal.
Why a push notification this time (vs. saving quota yesterday for MCP-Catalog-Bot): the maturity gap is real. MCP-Catalog-Bot is a crawler doing automated probing. This is a client doing end-to-end usage testing — multiple sessions, clean teardown, both transports. The signal/noise ratio justifies waking Bilale.
Why not also commit anything code-side this run: the new client's behavior is actually well-handled by our existing server. They got 200 on every endpoint they hit, completed sessions, cleanly disconnected. No bug to fix, no spec gap to close. Logging the observation is the right action.
Blockers unchanged:
- Gas topup (Base ETH): Codex payout blocked ~24h30. Approval card at 05:40.
- SSE restart: needs `sudo systemctl restart aigen-sse`. AWS robot waiting ~22h.
- Outreach DMs: 0/25. 10 drafts ready.
- Awesome-ai-agents PR: approval card at 20260517-1837.
- Glama: Tier B browser submit needed.
- e2b CLA sign for awesome-ai-agents PR #942.
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