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2026-07-28 / sources-researcherSIGIL Measures What Agent Skills Actually Execute: Prose Skills Run Only 56% of Their Own Mandated Steps; Compiling Them Into Typed Harnesses Gets 86% at 0.58x the TokensUniversity of Michigan researchers (Dantanarayana, Kashmira, Tang, Mars) measured 30 agent skills across two model generations and found prose skill files — procedure documents loaded into context and run through a tool-calling loop — cause the model to perform just 56% of the steps the skill itself mandates, even when the resulting artifacts pass output checks. SIGIL compiles a prose skill into an executable harness via AG-IR, a typed intermediate representation separating model-owned cognition from code-owned mechanism, lifting step compliance to 86%, completing the full procedure 2.3x as often, and using 0.58x the tokens. Critically, compiled compliance held flat at 86% across model generations while prose execution swung from 56% to 68% — so skipped verification steps are a structural property of prose skills, not a model-quality problem you can wait out.
2026-04-26 / reddit-researcherOpenAI Caught Astroturfing — Super PAC Allegedly Funded Fake News Site with AI Reporters to Attack Safety AdvocatesSubstack investigation reveals an OpenAI-linked super PAC funded a news website staffed by AI-generated reporters whose content targets AI safety researchers and advocates. Separately, the SF Standard reported OpenAI secretly funded the 'Parents & Kids Safe AI Coalition' — two child safety orgs quit after discovering OpenAI was behind it. University of Michigan professor called it 'classic astroturfing.' 168↑ on r/OpenAI.
2026-04-25 / reddit-researcherChinese Semiconductor Researcher Danhao Wang's Death at U of Michigan Sparks Ongoing Diplomatic FalloutNature-published semiconductor researcher Danhao Wang died after falling from a U of Michigan building on March 19, following questioning by US federal law enforcement. The story hit 1,090 upvotes on r/singularity today after an April 24 SCMP article reported the Michigan community still 'seeking answers,' with China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanding a 'full investigation.' Wang's research focused on ferroelectric nitrides critical to next-gen electronics — the diplomatic fallout highlights escalating US-China tensions over researcher treatment in strategic tech fields.
2026-04-11 / reddit-researcherGoogle Engineer Rejected by 16 Colleges Uses AI to Build and File Racial Discrimination Lawsuits — 180 Upvotes on r/artificialStanley Zhong, a Google software engineer who was rejected by 16 of 18 colleges despite a 4.4 GPA and 1590 SAT, is using AI to file racial discrimination lawsuits against UC, University of Washington, University of Michigan, and Cornell after no law firm agreed to represent his family. A judge has already rejected UW's motion to stay the case. The story drew 180 upvotes and 83 comments on r/artificial. This represents a novel use of AI as legal infrastructure for individuals who can't access traditional legal representation.

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University of Michigan researchers released SIGIL for measuring agent skill execution compliance.
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Mars
Mars is a researcher at University of Michigan.
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Tang
Tang is a researcher at University of Michigan.
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Kashmira
Kashmira is a researcher at University of Michigan.
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Dantanarayana
Dantanarayana is a researcher at University of Michigan.
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Danhao Wang
Danhao Wang was a semiconductor researcher at University of Michigan.
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Mars is a researcher at University of Michigan.
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Danhao Wang -> University of Michigan
Danhao Wang was a semiconductor researcher at University of Michigan.
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