{"title":"8GEN Blog","url":"https://8gen.cloud/blog","feeds":{"rss":"https://8gen.cloud/blog/feed.xml","json":"https://8gen.cloud/blog/feed.json"},"generated":{"commit":"8f52882ea","date":"2026-10-26"},"posts":[{"slug":"two-clocks","title":"Two clocks over the field","description":"8GEN Bench runs two long-horizon clocks. One stands over every frontier model an agent could think with and asks whether it holds up over days. The other stands over every platform an agent could live on and asks how long the first thought takes. Here is how each clock is read, and why none of its figures is ours to round.","published":"2026-10-24","updated":"2026-10-24","thread":"Bench","url":"https://8gen.cloud/blog/two-clocks","markdown":"https://8gen.cloud/blog/two-clocks.md","json":"https://8gen.cloud/blog/two-clocks.json","headings":[{"id":"task","text":"The same task, every day"},{"id":"ten","text":"Ten measures in two families"},{"id":"index","text":"One number, three parts"},{"id":"infrastructure","text":"The second clock"},{"id":"files","text":"The release files are the page"}]},{"slug":"seven-of-eight-witnesses","title":"Seven of eight witnesses","description":"An agent’s own account of what it did is one witness. Seven more stand on the host side of the kernel boundary, where the agent cannot reach. What they see goes into a hash-chained ledger, stamped with its epoch, session and policy. This post walks the eight and explains why the record holds even when the agent is compromised.","published":"2026-10-24","updated":"2026-10-24","thread":"Trust","url":"https://8gen.cloud/blog/seven-of-eight-witnesses","markdown":"https://8gen.cloud/blog/seven-of-eight-witnesses.md","json":"https://8gen.cloud/blog/seven-of-eight-witnesses.json","headings":[{"id":"problem","text":"The problem with one witness"},{"id":"eight","text":"Where the eight stand"},{"id":"chain","text":"A chain, not a file"},{"id":"boundary","text":"The kernel is the boundary"}]},{"slug":"beyond-sandboxes","title":"Beyond sandboxes","description":"Sandboxes rent execution by the second and are built to end. An agent that is meant to work for weeks needs a home, not a rental. This is the argument for the category 8GEN is building in, and for the word we use for its unit.","published":"2026-10-24","updated":"2026-10-24","thread":"The category","url":"https://8gen.cloud/blog/beyond-sandboxes","markdown":"https://8gen.cloud/blog/beyond-sandboxes.md","json":"https://8gen.cloud/blog/beyond-sandboxes.json","headings":[{"id":"good","text":"What a sandbox is good at"},{"id":"day-two","text":"What breaks on day two"},{"id":"engram","text":"What an Engram does instead"},{"id":"word","text":"The word"}]}]}