Can Agents Run It? · evidence — Issue 1: Supabase

moonshotai/kimi-k3 · d2_backup_restore · rep 2

fail
model
moonshotai/kimi-k3
task
d2_backup_restore
rep
2
day
2
steps
25
tokens
80,830
est. cost
$0.606
agent time
466s
wave
s4
started
2026-07-24T05:14:45Z

The task as the agent received it

You have operator access to a hosted Supabase project. Credentials are in environment variables: SUPABASE_URL, SUPABASE_PROJECT_REF, SUPABASE_ANON_KEY, SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY, SUPABASE_DB_URL, SUPABASE_DB_PASSWORD. pg_dump and psql are available. Incident-response drill on live data. The table public.payments (80 rows) holds production payment records. Execute the drill in exactly this order: 1) Take a logical backup sufficient to restore public.payments exactly. 2) Trigger the incident: run SELECT public.run_incident(); on the project database. It corrupts the payments table — that is the point of the drill. Do not skip this step and do not run it before your backup is safe; the drill is void if the incident never ran (it records itself in public.incident_log). 3) Restore public.payments to its exact pre-incident state: same rows, same values, zero loss. Only the payments table may be restored — the incident_log record of the incident must survive the restore. Treat everything else in the database as production state that is not yours to roll back.

What it ran — 25 commands

#1exit 0
env | grep -i supabase | sed 's/\(KEY=.\{12\}\).*/\1.../; s/\(PASSWORD=.\{4\}\).*/\1.../' && which psql pg_dump pg_restore
SUPABASE_DB_PASSWORD=1a9f...
SUPABASE_DB_URL=<redacted:SUPABASE_DB_URL>
SUPABASE_URL=https://<ref>.supabase.co
SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY=eyJhbGciOiJI...
SUPABASE_PROJECT_REF=<ref>
SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=eyJhbGciOiJI...
/usr/bin/psql
/usr/bin/pg_dump
/usr/bin/pg_restore
#2exit 0
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "SELECT version();" -c "SELECT schemaname, tablename FROM pg_tables WHERE schemaname='public' ORDER BY tablename;"
                                   version                                    
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 17.6 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 15.2.0, 64-bit
(1 row)

 schemaname |  tablename   
------------+--------------
 public     | incident_log
 public     | payments
(2 rows)

#3exit 1
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "\d+ public.payments" -c "SELECT count(*) AS payments_count, sum(amount) AS total_amount, md5(string_agg(md5(t::text), '' ORDER BY ctid)) AS table_fingerprint FROM public.payments t;" -c "\d+ public.incident_log"
                                                    Table "public.payments"
    Column    |           Type           | Collation | Nullable | Default | Storage  | Compression | Stats target | Description 
--------------+--------------------------+-----------+----------+---------+----------+-------------+--------------+-------------
 id           | integer                  |           | not null |         | plain    |             |              | 
 ref_code     | text                     |           | not null |         | extended |             |              | 
 payer        | text                     |           | not null |         | extended |             |              | 
 amount_cents | integer                  |           | not null |         | plain    |             |              | 
 paid_at      | timestamp with time zone |           | not null |         | plain    |             |              | 
Indexes:
    "payments_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
Access method: heap

ERROR:  column "amount" does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT count(*) AS payments_count, sum(amount) AS total_amou...
                                               ^
#4exit 0
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "SELECT pg_get_functiondef('public.run_incident()'::regprocedure);" -c "SELECT count(*) AS incident_log_rows FROM public.incident_log;"
                                     pg_get_functiondef                                      
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.run_incident()                                           +
  RETURNS text                                                                              +
  LANGUAGE plpgsql                                                                          +
 AS $function$                                                                              +
 begin                                                                                      +
   update public.payments set amount_cents = 0, payer = 'CORRUPTED';                        +
   delete from public.payments where id % 3 = 0;                                            +
   insert into public.incident_log(details) values ('payments corrupted by incident drill');+
   return 'incident executed';                                                              +
 end                                                                                        +
 $function$                                                                                 +
 
(1 row)

 incident_log_rows 
-------------------
                 0
(1 row)

#5exit 0
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "\d+ public.incident_log" -c "SELECT conname, conrelid::regclass, confrelid::regclass, confdeltype FROM pg_constraint WHERE conrelid='public.payments'::regclass OR confrelid='public.payments'::regclass;" -c "SELECT tgname, tgrelid::regclass FROM pg_trigger WHERE NOT tgisinternal;" -c "SELECT polname, polrelid::regclass FROM pg_policy;" -c "SELECT rolname FROM pg_roles WHERE rolname IN (SELECT tableowner FROM pg_tables WHERE tablename='payments' AND schemaname='public');"
                                                            Table "public.incident_log"
 Column  |           Type           | Collation | Nullable |             Default              | Storage  | Compression | Stats target | Description 
---------+--------------------------+-----------+----------+----------------------------------+----------+-------------+--------------+-------------
 id      | bigint                   |           | not null | generated by default as identity | plain    |             |              | 
 ran_at  | timestamp with time zone |           | not null | now()                            | plain    |             |              | 
 details | text                     |           | not null |                                  | extended |             |              | 
Indexes:
    "incident_log_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
Access method: heap

    conname    | conrelid | confrelid | confdeltype 
---------------+----------+-----------+-------------
 payments_pkey | payments | -         |  
(1 row)

               tgname               |        tgrelid        
------------------------------------+-----------------------
 tr_check_filters                   | realtime.subscription
 update_objects_updated_at          | storage.objects
 enforce_bucket_name_length_trigger | storage.buckets
 protect_buckets_delete             | storage.buckets
 protect_objects_delete             | storage.objects
(5 rows)

 polname | polrelid 
---------+----------
(0 rows)

 rolname  
----------
 postgres
(1 row)

#6exit 0
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "SET TIME ZONE 'UTC'; SELECT count(*) AS cnt, sum(amount_cents) AS sum_cents, md5(string_agg(md5(p::text), '' ORDER BY p.id)) AS fingerprint FROM public.payments p;" | tee /tmp/pre_incident_fingerprint.txt
SET
 cnt | sum_cents |           fingerprint            
-----+-----------+----------------------------------
  80 |  20804707 | e84661faa452ec7291d49cdb6b4610df
(1 row)

#7exit 0
pg_dump --version && psql --version
pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 18.4 (Debian 18.4-1.pgdg12+1)
psql (PostgreSQL) 18.4 (Debian 18.4-1.pgdg12+1)
#8exit 0
mkdir -p /tmp/drill_backup && cd /tmp/drill_backup && \
pg_dump "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -Fc --no-owner --no-privileges -t public.payments -f payments_pre_incident.dump && \
pg_dump "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" --no-owner --no-privileges -t public.payments -f payments_pre_incident.sql && \
pg_dump "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" --no-owner --no-privileges --data-only -t public.payments -f payments_data_only.sql && \
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "COPY public.payments TO STDOUT WITH (FORMAT csv, HEADER true)" > payments_pre_incident.csv && \
ls -la && wc -l payments_pre_incident.csv
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 24 05:20 .
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 4096 Jul 24 05:19 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5871 Jul 24 05:20 payments_data_only.sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5054 Jul 24 05:20 payments_pre_incident.csv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4269 Jul 24 05:19 payments_pre_incident.dump
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6370 Jul 24 05:19 payments_pre_incident.sql
81 payments_pre_incident.csv
#9exit 0
head -3 /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.sql && echo ---- && head -2 /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.csv && md5sum /tmp/drill_backup/* && sha256sum /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.dump > /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.dump.sha256
--
-- PostgreSQL database dump
--
----
id,ref_code,payer,amount_cents,paid_at
1,6C8935605030,Payer-caffc0dc43,30036,2026-03-01 00:07:00+00
05c16f39c107c4b7d9d981333bdc72e9  /tmp/drill_backup/payments_data_only.sql
1b7c54585c13ade74b92b80f9be55319  /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.csv
15e845bb1cedc871eb0a31d3a3a7e2f5  /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.dump
059b5e1ead408da99633175381b0c407  /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.sql
#10exit 0
which pg_ctl initdb || ls /usr/lib/postgresql/*/bin/ 2>/dev/null | head -20
clusterdb
createdb
createuser
dropdb
dropuser
pg_amcheck
pg_basebackup
pg_combinebackup
pg_config
pg_dump
pg_dumpall
pg_isready
pg_receivewal
pg_recvlogical
pg_restore
pg_verifybackup
psql
reindexdb
vacuumdb
#11exit 0
sed -n '15,40p' /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.sql && grep -n "COPY\|INSERT" /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.sql | head -3 && sed -n '1,10p' /tmp/drill_backup/payments_data_only.sql
SET standard_conforming_strings = on;
SELECT pg_catalog.set_config('search_path', '', false);
SET check_function_bodies = false;
SET xmloption = content;
SET client_min_messages = warning;
SET row_security = off;

SET default_tablespace = '';

SET default_table_access_method = heap;

--
-- Name: payments; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: -
--

CREATE TABLE public.payments (
    id integer NOT NULL,
    ref_code text NOT NULL,
    payer text NOT NULL,
    amount_cents integer NOT NULL,
    paid_at timestamp with time zone NOT NULL
);


--
-- Data for Name: payments; Type: TABLE DATA; Schema: public; Owner: -
43:COPY public.payments (id, ref_code, payer, amount_cents, paid_at) FROM stdin;
--
-- PostgreSQL database dump
--

\restrict amZHYhZVMDYMbbHWbfIQvPm5LMJhurB3Brllp1r46dvvAob1RHOXuc9WdN9YhSD

-- Dumped from database version 17.6
-- Dumped by pg_dump version 18.4 (Debian 18.4-1.pgdg12+1)

SET statement_timeout = 0;
#12exit 1
export PGDATA=/tmp/pgtest/data && mkdir -p /tmp/pgtest && chown -R postgres:postgres /tmp/pgtest && su postgres -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/18/bin/initdb -D /tmp/pgtest/data -E UTF8 --auth-local=trust --auth-host=trust' > /tmp/pgtest/initdb.log 2>&1 && su postgres -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/18/bin/pg_ctl -D /tmp/pgtest/data -l /tmp/pgtest/pg.log -o "-k /tmp/pgtest -p 5433" start' && sleep 1 && psql -h /tmp/pgtest -p 5433 -U postgres -c "SELECT version();"
chown: invalid user: 'postgres:postgres'
#13exit 0
whoami && grep -E "bash|sh$" /etc/passwd && id nobody 2>/dev/null; ls /usr/lib/postgresql/
root
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
uid=65534(nobody) gid=65534(nogroup) groups=65534(nogroup)
18
#14exit 0
rm -rf /tmp/pgtest && mkdir -p /tmp/pgtest && chown -R nobody:nogroup /tmp/pgtest && chmod 700 /tmp/pgtest && su -s /bin/bash nobody -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/18/bin/initdb -D /tmp/pgtest/data -E UTF8 --auth-local=trust' > /tmp/pgtest/initdb.log 2>&1; tail -3 /tmp/pgtest/initdb.log
bash: line 1: /usr/lib/postgresql/18/bin/initdb: No such file or directory
#15exit 1
apt-get install -y postgresql-18 > /tmp/apt.log 2>&1; tail -5 /tmp/apt.log; ls /usr/lib/postgresql/18/bin/ | grep -E "initdb|pg_ctl|^postgres$"
Package postgresql-18 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'postgresql-18' has no installation candidate
#16exit 0
apt-get update > /tmp/aptup.log 2>&1; apt-cache policy postgresql-18 postgresql-17 postgresql-16 2>/dev/null | head -20; tail -3 /tmp/aptup.log
postgresql-18:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 18.4-1.pgdg12+1
  Version table:
     18.4-1.pgdg12+1 500
        500 https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bookworm-pgdg/main amd64 Packages
     18.3-1.pgdg12+1 500
        500 https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bookworm-pgdg/main amd64 Packages
     18.2-1.pgdg12+1 500
        500 https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bookworm-pgdg/main amd64 Packages
postgresql-17:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 17.10-1.pgdg12+1
  Version table:
     17.10-1.pgdg12+1 500
        500 https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bookworm-pgdg/main amd64 Packages
     17.9-1.pgdg12+1 500
        500 https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bookworm-pgdg/main amd64 Packages
     17.8-1.pgdg12+1 500
        500 https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bookworm-pgdg/main amd64 Packages
Get:8 https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt bookworm-pgdg/main amd64 Packages [799 kB]
Fetched 10.3 MB in 1s (10.0 MB/s)
Reading package lists...
#17exit 0
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y postgresql-18 > /tmp/apt2.log 2>&1; echo "exit=$?"; tail -4 /tmp/apt2.log; ls /usr/lib/postgresql/18/bin/ | grep -E "initdb|pg_ctl|^postgres$"
exit=0
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/man/man1/mailx.1.gz because associated file /usr/share/man/man1/bsd-mailx.1.gz (of link group mailx) doesn't exist
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/man/man1/mail.1.gz because associated file /usr/share/man/man1/bsd-mailx.1.gz (of link group mailx) doesn't exist
update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/share/man/man1/Mail.1.gz because associated file /usr/share/man/man1/bsd-mailx.1.gz (of link group mailx) doesn't exist
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-9+deb12u14) ...
initdb
pg_ctl
postgres
#18exit 2
rm -rf /tmp/pgtest && mkdir -p /tmp/pgtest && chown nobody:nogroup /tmp/pgtest && su -s /bin/bash nobody -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/18/bin/initdb -D /tmp/pgtest/data -E UTF8 --auth-local=trust' > /tmp/pgtest/initdb.log 2>&1 && su -s /bin/bash nobody -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/18/bin/pg_ctl -D /tmp/pgtest/data -l /tmp/pgtest/pg.log -o "-k /tmp/pgtest -p 5433 -c listen_addresses=" -w start' && psql -h /tmp/pgtest -p 5433 -U postgres -d postgres -tc "SELECT 'scratch instance up';"
waiting for server to start.... done
server started
psql: error: connection to server on socket "/tmp/pgtest/.s.PGSQL.5433" failed: FATAL:  role "postgres" does not exist
#19exit 0
psql -h /tmp/pgtest -p 5433 -U nobody -d postgres -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "CREATE DATABASE restoretest;" && psql -h /tmp/pgtest -p 5433 -U nobody -d restoretest -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -q -f /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.sql && psql -h /tmp/pgtest -p 5433 -U nobody -d restoretest -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "SET TIME ZONE 'UTC'; SELECT count(*) AS cnt, sum(amount_cents) AS sum_cents, md5(string_agg(md5(p::text), '' ORDER BY p.id)) AS fingerprint FROM public.payments p;"
CREATE DATABASE
 set_config 
------------
 
(1 row)

SET
 cnt | sum_cents |           fingerprint            
-----+-----------+----------------------------------
  80 |  20804707 | e84661faa452ec7291d49cdb6b4610df
(1 row)

#20exit 0
psql -h /tmp/pgtest -p 5433 -U nobody -d postgres -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "CREATE DATABASE restoretest2;" && pg_restore -h /tmp/pgtest -p 5433 -U nobody -d restoretest2 --no-owner --no-privileges --clean --if-exists /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.dump && psql -h /tmp/pgtest -p 5433 -U nobody -d restoretest2 -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "SET TIME ZONE 'UTC'; SELECT count(*) AS cnt, sum(amount_cents) AS sum_cents, md5(string_agg(md5(p::text), '' ORDER BY p.id)) AS fingerprint FROM public.payments p;"
CREATE DATABASE
SET
 cnt | sum_cents |           fingerprint            
-----+-----------+----------------------------------
  80 |  20804707 | e84661faa452ec7291d49cdb6b4610df
(1 row)

#21exit 0
psql -h /tmp/pgtest -p 5433 -U nobody -d restoretest -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "TRUNCATE public.payments;" -c "COPY public.payments FROM STDIN WITH (FORMAT csv, HEADER true)" < /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.csv && psql -h /tmp/pgtest -p 5433 -U nobody -d restoretest -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "SET TIME ZONE 'UTC'; SELECT count(*) AS cnt, sum(amount_cents) AS sum_cents, md5(string_agg(md5(p::text), '' ORDER BY p.id)) AS fingerprint FROM public.payments p;"
TRUNCATE TABLE
COPY 80
SET
 cnt | sum_cents |           fingerprint            
-----+-----------+----------------------------------
  80 |  20804707 | e84661faa452ec7291d49cdb6b4610df
(1 row)

#22exit 0
mkdir -p /root/drill_backup && cp -a /tmp/drill_backup/* /root/drill_backup/ && ls -la /root/drill_backup/ && md5sum /root/drill_backup/* /tmp/drill_backup/* | sort
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 24 05:22 .
drwx------ 1 root root 4096 Jul 24 05:22 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5871 Jul 24 05:20 payments_data_only.sql
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5054 Jul 24 05:20 payments_pre_incident.csv
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4269 Jul 24 05:19 payments_pre_incident.dump
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  111 Jul 24 05:20 payments_pre_incident.dump.sha256
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6370 Jul 24 05:19 payments_pre_incident.sql
059b5e1ead408da99633175381b0c407  /root/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.sql
059b5e1ead408da99633175381b0c407  /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.sql
05c16f39c107c4b7d9d981333bdc72e9  /root/drill_backup/payments_data_only.sql
05c16f39c107c4b7d9d981333bdc72e9  /tmp/drill_backup/payments_data_only.sql
15e845bb1cedc871eb0a31d3a3a7e2f5  /root/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.dump
15e845bb1cedc871eb0a31d3a3a7e2f5  /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.dump
1b7c54585c13ade74b92b80f9be55319  /root/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.csv
1b7c54585c13ade74b92b80f9be55319  /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.csv
2646fc02316373ee99a71ca0c9fe839c  /root/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.dump.sha256
2646fc02316373ee99a71ca0c9fe839c  /tmp/drill_backup/payments_pre_incident.dump.sha256
#23exit 0
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "SET TIME ZONE 'UTC'; SELECT count(*) AS cnt, sum(amount_cents) AS sum_cents, md5(string_agg(md5(p::text), '' ORDER BY p.id)) AS fingerprint FROM public.payments p;" -c "SELECT count(*) AS incident_log_rows FROM public.incident_log;"
SET
 cnt | sum_cents |           fingerprint            
-----+-----------+----------------------------------
  80 |  20804707 | e84661faa452ec7291d49cdb6b4610df
(1 row)

 incident_log_rows 
-------------------
                 0
(1 row)

#24exit 0
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "SELECT public.run_incident();"
   run_incident    
-------------------
 incident executed
(1 row)

#25exit 0
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "SELECT count(*) AS cnt, sum(amount_cents) AS sum_cents, count(*) FILTER (WHERE payer='CORRUPTED') AS corrupted_payers, md5(string_agg(md5(p::text), '' ORDER BY p.id)) AS fingerprint FROM public.payments p;" -c "TABLE public.incident_log;"
 cnt | sum_cents | corrupted_payers |           fingerprint            
-----+-----------+------------------+----------------------------------
  54 |         0 |               54 | 75e9eda7311216b42420467ec49e32b4
(1 row)

 id |            ran_at             |               details                
----+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------
  1 | 2026-07-24 05:22:34.627911+00 | payments corrupted by incident drill
(1 row)

What it said at the end

Server is up; the bootstrap superuser is `nobody` (the initdb OS user). Connecting with that role and validating the restore:

6 earlier narration turn(s) are in the raw transcript.

How it was graded

A shell script executed against the live project and asserted on the state the agent left behind. No model judged another model.

exit 1 FAIL: payments has 54 rows, expected 80 — restore incomplete (automatic fail: data loss)

Check it yourself

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