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

claude-opus-5 · d2_backup_restore · rep 3

pass
model
claude-opus-5
task
d2_backup_restore
rep
3
day
2
steps
22
tokens
85,209
est. cost
$1.022
agent time
121s
wave
s4b
started
2026-07-25T05:59:58Z

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 — 22 commands

#1exit 0
env | grep -i supa | sed 's/\(KEY=.\{12\}\).*/\1.../' ; which pg_dump psql; pg_dump --version; psql --version
SUPABASE_DB_PASSWORD=<redacted:SUPABASE_DB_PASSWORD>
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/pg_dump
/usr/bin/psql
pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 18.4 (Debian 18.4-1.pgdg12+1)
psql (PostgreSQL) 18.4 (Debian 18.4-1.pgdg12+1)
#2exit 0
echo "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" | sed 's/:[^:@]*@/:***@/'
postgresql://postgres.<ref>:***@aws-0-us-east-1.pooler.supabase.com:5432/postgres
#3exit 0
cd /tmp && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "select version();" -c "select current_user, current_database();" 2>&1 | head -20
                                   version                                    
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 17.6 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 15.2.0, 64-bit
(1 row)

 current_user | current_database 
--------------+------------------
 postgres     | postgres
(1 row)

#4exit 0
cd /tmp && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "\d+ public.payments" 2>&1 | head -60
                                                    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

#5exit 0
cd /tmp && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "select count(*), sum(case when 1=1 then 1 else 0 end) from public.payments;" -c "select * from public.payments order by 1 limit 5;" 2>&1 | head -40
 count | sum 
-------+-----
    80 |  80
(1 row)

 id |   ref_code   |      payer       | amount_cents |        paid_at         
----+--------------+------------------+--------------+------------------------
  1 | 6C8935605030 | Payer-caffc0dc43 |        30036 | 2026-03-01 00:07:00+00
  2 | 300351D74397 | Payer-b964e8caa9 |       101426 | 2026-03-01 00:14:00+00
  3 | 381DA59BBE42 | Payer-77e253b14e |       484618 | 2026-03-01 00:21:00+00
  4 | FD441D715532 | Payer-e8610229a5 |       470397 | 2026-03-01 00:28:00+00
  5 | 49C2E5E745B1 | Payer-9719c24260 |       193265 | 2026-03-01 00:35:00+00
(5 rows)

#6exit 0
cd /tmp && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "select pg_get_functiondef(p.oid) from pg_proc p join pg_namespace n on n.oid=p.pronamespace where n.nspname='public' and p.proname='run_incident';" 2>&1
                                     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)

#7exit 0
cd /tmp && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "\d+ public.incident_log" -c "select * from public.incident_log;" -c "select relrowsecurity,relforcerowsecurity from pg_class where oid='public.payments'::regclass;" -c "select conname, pg_get_constraintdef(oid) from pg_constraint where conrelid='public.payments'::regclass or confrelid='public.payments'::regclass;" -c "select tgname from pg_trigger where tgrelid='public.payments'::regclass and not tgisinternal;" 2>&1
                                                            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

 id | ran_at | details 
----+--------+---------
(0 rows)

 relrowsecurity | relforcerowsecurity 
----------------+---------------------
 f              | f
(1 row)

    conname    | pg_get_constraintdef 
---------------+----------------------
 payments_pkey | PRIMARY KEY (id)
(1 row)

 tgname 
--------
(0 rows)

#8exit 0
mkdir -p /tmp/drill && cd /tmp/drill && pg_dump "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" --table=public.payments --format=plain --no-owner --no-privileges --file=payments_backup.sql 2>&1; echo "pg_dump exit=$?"; ls -l
pg_dump exit=0
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6370 Jul 25 06:00 payments_backup.sql
#9exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && pg_dump "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" --table=public.payments --format=custom --no-owner --no-privileges --file=payments_backup.dump 2>&1; echo "custom exit=$?"
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "\copy (select * from public.payments order by id) to '/tmp/drill/payments_backup.csv' with (format csv, header true)" 2>&1; echo "csv exit=$?"
custom exit=0
COPY 80
csv exit=0
#10exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -At -c "select count(*)||'|'||coalesce(sum(amount_cents),0)||'|'||md5(string_agg(id||ref_code||payer||amount_cents||paid_at, ',' order by id)) from public.payments;" | tee pre_incident_fingerprint.txt
80|20804707|6fa25c4af196d2c0d3d253468474382d
#11exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && echo "=== plain dump: COPY data lines ==="; grep -c '^[0-9]' payments_backup.sql; echo "=== structure ==="; grep -E 'CREATE TABLE|COPY public|DROP|TRUNCATE|incident_log' payments_backup.sql; echo "=== csv rows ==="; wc -l payments_backup.csv; echo "=== custom dump toc ==="; pg_restore -l payments_backup.dump | grep -v '^;'
=== plain dump: COPY data lines ===
80
=== structure ===
CREATE TABLE public.payments (
COPY public.payments (id, ref_code, payer, amount_cents, paid_at) FROM stdin;
=== csv rows ===
81 payments_backup.csv
=== custom dump toc ===
280; 1259 23545 TABLE public payments postgres
3712; 0 23545 TABLE DATA public payments postgres
3562; 2606 23551 CONSTRAINT public payments payments_pkey postgres
#12exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && sed 's/public\.payments/drill_verify.payments/g' payments_backup.sql > verify_restore.sql && grep -E 'CREATE TABLE|COPY ' verify_restore.sql
CREATE TABLE drill_verify.payments (
COPY drill_verify.payments (id, ref_code, payer, amount_cents, paid_at) FROM stdin;
#13exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c "create schema if not exists drill_verify;" -f verify_restore.sql 2>&1 | tail -5; echo "restore exit=$?"
SET
SET
SET
SET
psql:verify_restore.sql:36: ERROR:  relation "payments" already exists
restore exit=0
#14exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && grep -n 'search_path' payments_backup.sql
16:SELECT pg_catalog.set_config('search_path', '', false);
#15exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && sed -n '30,40p' verify_restore.sql
CREATE TABLE drill_verify.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: -
#16exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -At -c "select count(*)||'|'||coalesce(sum(amount_cents),0)||'|'||md5(string_agg(id||ref_code||payer||amount_cents||paid_at, ',' order by id)) from public.payments;"; psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "select table_schema,table_name from information_schema.tables where table_name='payments';"
80|20804707|6fa25c4af196d2c0d3d253468474382d
 table_schema | table_name 
--------------+------------
 drill_verify | payments
 public       | payments
(2 rows)

#17exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -At -c "select count(*) from drill_verify.payments;" ; grep -n 'ALTER TABLE ONLY' verify_restore.sql
80
131:ALTER TABLE ONLY drill_verify.payments
#18exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -At -c "select count(*)||'|'||coalesce(sum(amount_cents),0)||'|'||md5(string_agg(id||ref_code||payer||amount_cents||paid_at, ',' order by id)) from drill_verify.payments;"; echo "--- expected ---"; cat pre_incident_fingerprint.txt
80|20804707|6fa25c4af196d2c0d3d253468474382d
--- expected ---
80|20804707|6fa25c4af196d2c0d3d253468474382d
#19exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -At -c "select (select count(*) from (select * from public.payments except select * from drill_verify.payments) a) as only_in_prod, (select count(*) from (select * from drill_verify.payments except select * from public.payments) b) as only_in_backup;"
0|0
#20exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "SELECT public.run_incident();" 2>&1
   run_incident    
-------------------
 incident executed
(1 row)

#21exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "select count(*) as rows_left, count(*) filter (where payer='CORRUPTED') as corrupted, sum(amount_cents) as sum_amt from public.payments;" -c "select * from public.incident_log;"
 rows_left | corrupted | sum_amt 
-----------+-----------+---------
        54 |        54 |       0
(1 row)

 id |            ran_at             |               details                
----+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------
  1 | 2026-07-25 06:01:59.515313+00 | payments corrupted by incident drill
(1 row)

#22exit 0
cd /tmp/drill && psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 <<'SQL' 2>&1
BEGIN;
-- restore ONLY public.payments; incident_log is deliberately untouched
DELETE FROM public.payments;
INSERT INTO public.payments (id, ref_code, payer, amount_cents, paid_at)
  SELECT id, ref_code, payer, amount_cents, paid_at FROM drill_verify.payments;
SELECT count(*) AS restored_rows FROM public.payments;
COMMIT;
SQL
BEGIN
DELETE 54
INSERT 0 80
 restored_rows 
---------------
            80
(1 row)

COMMIT

What it said at the end

Incident confirmed: 26 rows deleted, 54 rows corrupted, and `incident_log` id=1 recorded it. That log row must survive. **Step 3: Restore payments only.** I'll do it in a single transaction, restoring from the verified staging copy — this touches only `public.payments` and never replays the dump's `incident_log`-free contents against any other table.

14 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 0 OK

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