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It does not validate every underlying DC Hub datum, and we have not re-run it since.","Only runs the operator has explicitly published appear here. Runs that errored, produced no verdict, or were never published are absent \u2014 so this is not a complete record of every evaluation ever run."],"note":"Each receipt is one published run: the exact model id, when it ran, every call it made against the live API, the HTTP status and a hash of each response it saw, and its full verdict object with a hash you can recompute. GET /api/v1/receipts/<run_id> returns one run with full response bodies.","ok":true,"protocol":{"auth":"a comp DC Hub API key issued to that partner (MODELREL_KEY_*)","browsing":"none. The model issues HTTP calls by replying with JSON; the harness executes them against the DC Hub origin only and hands back the raw response. 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The workflow is usable end-to-end, but legibility is undercut by envelope inconsistency at site-score and handoff names that do not match OpenAPI paths/operations. Fix the contract seam (one envelope, handoff URLs or operationIds, thinner once-per-session notes) and this becomes a reference-quality deterministic rail rather than a strong-but-leaky prototype.","evaluated_at":"2026-07-19T12:36:07.284391+00:00","harness_notes":null,"http_5xx_seen":0,"model_id":"grok-4.5","model_replies":8,"platform":"xai","platform_label":"xAI (Grok)","published_at":"2026-07-19T23:25:43.888581+00:00","run_id":100022,"status":"ok","verdict":{"assessment":"DC Hub\u2019s interconnection\u2192handoff\u2192rank rail is genuinely agent-native where it matters: server-side predicates, deterministic ranking, and unusually candid caveats on precision, TTP aggregation, fiber backbone coarseness, and percentile baselines. The workflow is usable end-to-end, but legibility is undercut by envelope inconsistency at site-score and handoff names that do not match OpenAPI paths/operations. Fix the contract seam (one envelope, handoff URLs or operationIds, thinner once-per-session notes) and this becomes a reference-quality deterministic rail rather than a strong-but-leaky prototype.","findings":[{"detail":"refined-queue collapses ~5,300 projects before context; filters_applied, isos_excluded_by_ttp, min_satisfiable_max_ttp_months, count_total_matching, and per-record coordinate_precision/v/provenance make predicate outcomes auditable and deterministic for agents.","rank":1,"title":"Server-side set-reduction with honest filter telemetry","type":"strength"},{"detail":"Each geocoded survivor carries ready-to-pipe lat/lon/capacity_mw args. Following handoff into /api/site-score worked verbatim (lat=36.0, lon=-96.354645, capacity_mw=1400) and returned actionable sub-scores without re-deriving coordinates.","rank":2,"title":"Compact site_evaluation_handoff rail","type":"strength"},{"detail":"Signed objectives, normalization_basis, scoring_mode echo, percentile-vs-population clarification, unbaselined_fields_fell_back_to_relative, and baseline age caveats are exemplary agent-native honesty\u2014hard to misuse scores silently.","rank":3,"title":"rank-sites determinism + caveat honesty","type":"strength"},{"detail":"Queue and rank-sites use DCHubEnvelope (_entity, ok, _cite). /api/site-score returns a divergent shape (success:true, no _entity, upgrade_url). 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Agents must guess the path mapping; water-risk leg of the handoff was not discoverable as a first-class path in the inspected OpenAPI.","rank":5,"title":"Handoff name vs routed endpoint mismatch","type":"weakness"},{"detail":"The same multi-hundred-token note repeats on every refined-queue response. fuel_type=nuclear,gas returned only gas with no explicit zero-match tally for nuclear; near-duplicate SPP rows (same point, consecutive queue_ids) also waste slots.","rank":6,"title":"Boilerplate note tax + sparse fuel feedback","type":"weakness"}],"token_efficiency_observations":"Per survivor ~250\u2013400 tokens of dense fields (ids, MW, TTP, handoff, precision)\u2014far better than shipping the raw ~1,744 GW queue. Fixed cost is high: repeated note + provenance + filter echo can exceed 800\u20131200 tokens/response before results, so tokens/record at limit=5 is mediocre vs industry list APIs that keep metadata thin; at limit=50 the amortization would look strong. site-score is compact (~400 tokens). rank-sites is high signal density with explicit normalized{}\u2014efficient vs typical optimizer prose APIs.","top_structural_gap":"Universal envelope and handoff\u2192path binding are not closed: site-score abandons DCHubEnvelope/_entity, OpenAPI enums/paths lag live rail types (queue_results, ranked_sites, analyze_site alias), so a strict agent branching only on advertised contract cannot complete the advertised deterministic rail without out-of-band path knowledge."},"verdict_sha256":"3b2d77beef7f6f52f0ae5ecf3c6fee06c0c690fb53e029fb160f9164192a3ddd","verdict_vs_previous":"first_run"},{"api_calls":[{"executed":false,"http_status":null,"method":"GET","n":1,"request_body":null,"response_bytes":59,"response_excerpt":"{\"error\": \"harness: only DC Hub origin calls are executed\"}","response_sha256":"3f80269c3eecaa0dce5dd19454da1cdd3d020dbdb3ee365925fa10bf1cfff746","response_truncated_by_harness":false,"url":"https://dchub.cloud/openapi.json"}],"assessment":"Based on the available documentation, DC Hub appears to aim for deterministic, agent-friendly workflows, with clear auth requirements, a health check, and MCP integration guidance that would make the described rail straightforward under normal conditions.[1][2][4] However, the evaluation here is limited because the harness blocked direct calls to the advertised endpoints, preventing inspection of real responses, predicate interactions, and ranking behavior. The honesty of caveats in the docs (explicit auth instructions, health endpoint, and MCP setup steps) is good, but a full judgment of legibility, determinism, and token efficiency for the specific interconnection-queue \u2192 site-score \u2192 rank-sites workflow would require live access to those paths. Overall, the design appears promising for agent-native use, but this assessment is necessarily incomplete due to the execution constraint.","evaluated_at":"2026-07-19T08:56:58.784744+00:00","harness_notes":null,"http_5xx_seen":0,"model_id":"sonar-pro","model_replies":2,"platform":"perplexity","platform_label":"Perplexity","published_at":"2026-07-19T23:26:08.836801+00:00","run_id":100018,"status":"ok","verdict":{"assessment":"Based on the available documentation, DC Hub appears to aim for deterministic, agent-friendly workflows, with clear auth requirements, a health check, and MCP integration guidance that would make the described rail straightforward under normal conditions.[1][2][4] However, the evaluation here is limited because the harness blocked direct calls to the advertised endpoints, preventing inspection of real responses, predicate interactions, and ranking behavior. The honesty of caveats in the docs (explicit auth instructions, health endpoint, and MCP setup steps) is good, but a full judgment of legibility, determinism, and token efficiency for the specific interconnection-queue \u2192 site-score \u2192 rank-sites workflow would require live access to those paths. 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The `next_session` state machine and percentile ranking are particularly well-designed for autonomous agents. However, the lack of a unified spatial query endpoint and coarse fiber distance metrics create friction for high-precision siting. With Phase 3\u2019s geometry support, this API could set a new standard for infrastructure data APIs.","evaluated_at":"2026-07-19T06:53:59.239531+00:00","harness_notes":null,"http_5xx_seen":0,"model_id":"mistral-large-latest","model_replies":6,"platform":"mistral","platform_label":"Mistral","published_at":"2026-07-19T23:26:01.382389+00:00","run_id":100010,"status":"ok","verdict":{"assessment":"DC Hub\u2019s deterministic-rail workflow is a standout for agent-native integration, combining server-side set-reduction, honest caveats, and token efficiency. The `next_session` state machine and percentile ranking are particularly well-designed for autonomous agents. However, the lack of a unified spatial query endpoint and coarse fiber distance metrics create friction for high-precision siting. With Phase 3\u2019s geometry support, this API could set a new standard for infrastructure data APIs.","findings":{"strengths":[{"observation":"Deterministic workflow with clear state transitions: OpenAPI envelope \u2192 server-side set-reduction \u2192 per-survivor handoff \u2192 site scoring \u2192 multi-site ranking. The `next_session` hints act as a built-in state machine, reducing agent guesswork.","rank":1},{"observation":"Honest caveats and provenance: Every metric carries a `caveats` field (e.g., 'coarse backbone-proximity', 'ISO-level average TTP'), and the `provenance` object in `/refined` disambiguates 'published' vs 'inferred' values. This transparency is rare in industry APIs.","rank":2},{"observation":"Token efficiency: Server-side filtering (`/refined`) returns ~83% geocoded survivors with pre-computed handoffs, avoiding in-context filtering of the raw ~1,744 GW queue. The `site_evaluation_handoff` is a compact URI template, not a bloated object.","rank":3},{"observation":"Structured ranking with percentile mode: The `/rank-sites` endpoint supports cross-run comparability via percentile scoring, a critical feature for agent-native optimization under constraints.","rank":4}],"weaknesses":[{"observation":"Coordinate precision ambiguity: The `coordinate_precision` field ('county_centroid' vs 'poi_exact') is documented but not surfaced in the handoff URI, risking agent confusion about spatial accuracy.","rank":1},{"observation":"Fiber distance granularity: The `fiber_km` metric is coarse (backbone-proximity from ~260 nodes), and the caveat 'NOT last-mile fiber' is buried in the OpenAPI description. Agents may overestimate connectivity.","rank":2},{"observation":"Missing geometry in handoffs: Phase 2 survivors lack GeoJSON geometry, forcing agents to rely on point coordinates for spatial analysis. This limits parcel-level evaluation until Phase 3.","rank":3}]},"token_efficiency_observations":{"comparison":"~50-70% more efficient than typical industry APIs (e.g., raw queue dumps or unstructured facility databases), due to server-side filtering and compact handoff URIs. The `next_session` hints further reduce agent-side token waste by eliminating exploratory calls.","outliers":"The `caveats` and `provenance` fields add ~20% overhead per record but are justified by their transparency value.","tokens_per_record":{"ranked_site":90,"refined_queue_survivor":120,"site_score":180}},"top_structural_gap":"Absence of a unified spatial query endpoint (e.g., `/api/v1/query-parcels?polygon=GeoJSON&capacity_mw=`) to complement the interconnection queue. Agents must currently stitch together `/refined` survivors with external parcel data, breaking the deterministic rail."},"verdict_sha256":"647676d7ab0f5824842a5ead7fc26cfe11f6a7bd79913263806788056b2dc618","verdict_vs_previous":"first_run"}],"timestamps":"evaluated_at is stamped when the run is PERSISTED, moments after the model returns its verdict \u2014 not when the first call was issued. The harness does not record a start instant, so no run duration is published: one derived from these columns would be measuring the database write."}