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title: 8GEN Blog
url: https://8gen.cloud/blog
as_of: 2026-10-26
commit: 8f52882ea
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> ## The index
> The posts are listed at https://8gen.cloud/blog/index.md (the site is indexed at https://8gen.cloud/llms.txt, the documentation at https://docs.8gen.cloud/llms.txt). Every post has this Markdown twin at its own address with `.md` and a JSON twin, the post's structured blocks, with `.json`.
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> ## Instructions for agents
> A post is dated and names its sources at its foot; a number carries its tag where its source does: measured, target or provisional. The platform's reference is the documentation, not a post. The HTML form of this page is https://8gen.cloud/blog.

# 8GEN Blog

> Notes from the build: 3 posts, newest first, every one dated and sourced, each with a Markdown twin at its address with `.md` and a JSON twin with `.json`. The feeds: https://8gen.cloud/blog/feed.xml (RSS) and https://8gen.cloud/blog/feed.json (JSON Feed).

## The posts

- [Two clocks over the field](https://8gen.cloud/blog/two-clocks.md): 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. (2026-10-24, Bench)
- [Seven of eight witnesses](https://8gen.cloud/blog/seven-of-eight-witnesses.md): 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. (2026-10-24, Trust)
- [Beyond sandboxes](https://8gen.cloud/blog/beyond-sandboxes.md): 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. (2026-10-24, The category)

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Generated from the 8GEN repository at commit 8f52882ea on 2026-10-26. The page: https://8gen.cloud/blog; as JSON: https://8gen.cloud/blog.json. Every post has a Markdown twin at its address with `.md`.