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Replace a system with no code and no documentation with a deterministic, byte-for-byte replica, against cases we don't know.
movingparticle@caja-negra:~$ cat ./ARCHITECTURE.txt
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FRONTIER Bogotá 2026 · Challenge 2 · 12:00 milestone.
A service has been running in production for 10 years and nobody knows how it works. We'll discover its behavior by observing it and build a replica that responds exactly the same — errors included — without ever calling it at runtime.
Replace a system with no code and no documentation with a deterministic, byte-for-byte replica, against cases we don't know.
Hypothesis-driven probing to infer the real rule, and a native in-memory HTTP server that emulates commands, states and errors.
Differential comparison oracle vs. replica, an adversarial battery, and exact parity of status and body.
Production on Cloudflare Workers with a Durable Object (single global state). The same engine (src/engine.mjs) runs on a local Node server. Integrity with ISO 7064 Mod 97-10.
Public entrypoint: https://caja-negra-reemplazo.parsec-ai-labs.workers.dev
EVALUATOR person · 100 hidden tests | | HTTPS + Bearer · JSON · 5s v +------------- WORKER (Cloudflare) -------------+ | GET /health -> 200 {"ok":true} | | POST /__reset -> 200 {"ok":true} | | POST /msg -> auth -> engine -> X-Req | | /* -> 404 E404 | +----------------------+------------------------+ | known route + auth v DURABLE OBJECT global-caja-negra · single state | v ENGINE ISO 7064 checksum · accounts · operations
C4 · level 1 — context
C4 · level 2 — containers
Production entrypoint: CORS, routing, timing-safe auth and an 8 KiB body limit (E101). Unknown routes → 404 E404.
Single instance global-caja-negra: guarantees one state across requests, isolated by POST /__reset.
Deterministic state machine. Control with ISO 7064 Mod 97-10; error precedence and ANULA reversal.
POST /__reset → state 0 → POST /msg (1 to 12 requests) → validation → transition → exact body. More than 5 s is a failure.
Worker + Durable Object on Cloudflare's edge. A single logical state; verified live (20/20 examples).