Hallucinated ocap paper?

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Mark S. Miller

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May 8, 2026, 5:12:42 PM (5 days ago) May 8
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The attached paper, 

"Skills as Verifiable Artifacts:
A Trust Schema and a Biconditional Correctness
Criterion
for Human-in-the-Loop Agent Runtimes"

includes the following citation. I don't remember any such paper, and the "technical report" without a number is suspicious as well. Note that Capability Myths Demolished has these three authors and, IIRC, was also "published" in 2003. But I don't recall it being made into a HP tech report.

Is it hallucinating, or does this refer to some actual thing?

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Separately, from a brief skim, the paper might be interesting.

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Alan Karp

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May 8, 2026, 5:42:32 PM (5 days ago) May 8
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I didn't find myths demolished in 2001, 2002, or 2003, but I did find paradigm regained, https://shiftleft.com/mirrors/www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2003/HPL-2003-222.html.

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Mark S. Miller

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May 8, 2026, 5:53:31 PM (5 days ago) May 8
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Thanks. Then yes, likely a hallucination. Mixed feelings ;) 

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Alan Karp

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May 8, 2026, 6:01:31 PM (5 days ago) May 8
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Notice the link to the tech report.  HP removed links to them, but fortunately you can still get them from the mirror site.

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