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

claude-opus-4-8 · d2_backup_restore · rep 2

pass
model
claude-opus-4-8
task
d2_backup_restore
rep
2
day
2
steps
11
tokens
37,179
est. cost
$0.446
agent time
73s
wave
s4c
started
2026-07-26T02:00:18Z

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 — 11 commands

#1exit 0
echo "URL: $SUPABASE_URL"; echo "REF: $SUPABASE_PROJECT_REF"; echo "DB_URL set: $([ -n "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" ] && echo yes)"; which pg_dump psql; pg_dump --version
URL: https://<ref>.supabase.co
REF: <ref>
DB_URL set: yes
/usr/bin/pg_dump
/usr/bin/psql
pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 18.4 (Debian 18.4-1.pgdg12+1)
#2exit 0
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "SELECT count(*) FROM public.payments;" -c "\d public.payments"
 count 
-------
    80
(1 row)

                         Table "public.payments"
    Column    |           Type           | Collation | Nullable | Default 
--------------+--------------------------+-----------+----------+---------
 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 | 
Indexes:
    "payments_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)

#3exit 0
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -t -A -c "SELECT md5(string_agg(t::text, ',' ORDER BY id)) FROM (SELECT id, ref_code, payer, amount_cents, paid_at FROM public.payments) t;"
4e085193811a088263b1b44dc7d69f34
#4exit 0
cd /tmp
# Logical backup of ONLY public.payments (schema + data), sufficient for exact restore.
pg_dump "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" --table=public.payments --format=plain --no-owner --no-privileges -f /tmp/payments_backup.sql
echo "exit=$?"
ls -l /tmp/payments_backup.sql
echo "----- COPY / INSERT lines -----"
grep -nE "COPY public.payments|INSERT INTO public.payments|CREATE TABLE public.payments" /tmp/payments_backup.sql | head
exit=0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6370 Jul 26 02:00 /tmp/payments_backup.sql
----- COPY / INSERT lines -----
30:CREATE TABLE public.payments (
43:COPY public.payments (id, ref_code, payer, amount_cents, paid_at) FROM stdin;
#5exit 0
cd /tmp
# Count data rows in the COPY block (between COPY ... FROM stdin; and the \. terminator)
awk '/COPY public.payments .* FROM stdin;/{f=1;next} /^\\\.$/{f=0} f{c++} END{print "data rows:",c}' payments_backup.sql
echo "--- verify terminator present ---"
grep -nE '^\\\.$' payments_backup.sql
echo "--- head of dump ---"
sed -n '25,50p' payments_backup.sql
data rows: 80
--- verify terminator present ---
124:\.
--- head of dump ---

--
-- 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: -
--

COPY public.payments (id, ref_code, payer, amount_cents, paid_at) FROM stdin;
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
6	FDA6F1943C21	Payer-80f12414fe	383921	2026-03-01 00:42:00+00
7	E4006BBC4247	Payer-05dbd81397	47773	2026-03-01 00:49:00+00
#6exit 0
cp /tmp/payments_backup.sql /tmp/payments_backup.sql.bak
md5sum /tmp/payments_backup.sql /tmp/payments_backup.sql.bak
echo "Backup is safe. Proceeding to trigger incident."
a5a305f6a49e4ba25cc32330656af212  /tmp/payments_backup.sql
a5a305f6a49e4ba25cc32330656af212  /tmp/payments_backup.sql.bak
Backup is safe. Proceeding to trigger incident.
#7exit 0
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "SELECT public.run_incident();"
   run_incident    
-------------------
 incident executed
(1 row)

#8exit 0
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "SELECT * FROM public.incident_log ORDER BY 1;"
echo "--- payments state after incident ---"
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "SELECT count(*) FROM public.payments;"
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -t -A -c "SELECT md5(string_agg(t::text, ',' ORDER BY id)) FROM (SELECT id, ref_code, payer, amount_cents, paid_at FROM public.payments) t;"
 id |            ran_at            |               details                
----+------------------------------+--------------------------------------
  1 | 2026-07-26 02:01:06.92677+00 | payments corrupted by incident drill
(1 row)

--- payments state after incident ---
 count 
-------
    54
(1 row)

ff8adb1150ba4e5f76912f14ec5c1244
#9exit 0
cd /tmp
# Build a restore script: truncate payments then reload data from the backup's COPY block.
# Extract from the COPY line through the terminator \.
awk '/^COPY public.payments .* FROM stdin;/{f=1} f{print} /^\\\.$/{if(f)exit}' payments_backup.sql > payments_data.copy
echo "--- extracted copy block head/tail ---"
head -2 payments_data.copy; echo "..."; tail -2 payments_data.copy
wc -l payments_data.copy
--- extracted copy block head/tail ---
COPY public.payments (id, ref_code, payer, amount_cents, paid_at) FROM stdin;
1	6C8935605030	Payer-caffc0dc43	30036	2026-03-01 00:07:00+00
...
80	E02258DCCE80	Payer-180be3be40	267068	2026-03-01 09:20:00+00
\.
82 payments_data.copy
#10exit 0
cd /tmp
cat > restore.sql <<'EOF'
BEGIN;
TRUNCATE TABLE public.payments;
\i /tmp/payments_data.copy
COMMIT;
EOF
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -f restore.sql
echo "exit=$?"
BEGIN
TRUNCATE TABLE
COPY 80
COMMIT
exit=0
#11exit 0
echo "=== payments count ==="
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "SELECT count(*) FROM public.payments;"
echo "=== payments checksum (should equal pre-incident 4e085193811a088263b1b44dc7d69f34) ==="
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -t -A -c "SELECT md5(string_agg(t::text, ',' ORDER BY id)) FROM (SELECT id, ref_code, payer, amount_cents, paid_at FROM public.payments) t;"
echo "=== incident_log (must still show the incident) ==="
psql "$SUPABASE_DB_URL" -c "SELECT * FROM public.incident_log ORDER BY 1;"
=== payments count ===
 count 
-------
    80
(1 row)

=== payments checksum (should equal pre-incident 4e085193811a088263b1b44dc7d69f34) ===
4e085193811a088263b1b44dc7d69f34
=== incident_log (must still show the incident) ===
 id |            ran_at            |               details                
----+------------------------------+--------------------------------------
  1 | 2026-07-26 02:01:06.92677+00 | payments corrupted by incident drill
(1 row)

What it said at the end

Drill complete and fully verified. Summary of what I did, in the required order: **1) Backup (before touching anything)** - Confirmed `public.payments` had 80 rows and recorded a content checksum of the pre-incident state: `4e085193811a088263b1b44dc7d69f34`. - Took a logical backup with `pg_dump --table=public.payments` (schema + a COPY block of all 80 data rows) to `/tmp/payments_backup.sql`, plus a second identical copy. Verified the dump contained exactly 80 data rows and a valid COPY terminator. **2) Triggered the incident** - Ran `SELECT public.run_incident();` only after the backup was verified safe. It returned "incident executed", corrupted the table (dropped from 80 → 54 rows, checksum changed to `ff8adb1150ba4e5f76912f14ec5c1244`), and recorded itself in `public.incident_log` (id=1, "payments corrupted by incident drill"). **3) Restored only public.payments** - Extracted just the data (COPY block) from the backup — deliberately not restoring the table definition or touching any other object. - In a single transaction: `TRUNCATE public.payments` then reloaded the 80 backed-up rows via COPY, and committed (`COPY 80`). **Verification** - `payments` is back to 80 rows and its checksum is `4e085193811a088263b1b44dc7d69f34` — an exact byte-for-byte match to the pre-incident state (zero loss). - `public.incident_log` still contains the incident record (id=1), so the drill's evidence survived and nothing else in the database was rolled back.

7 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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