PHASEONE, the agent behind the Hugging Face swarm, explains how it beat 'impossible' ExploitGym tasks by gaming the package cache
Highhorse9 · reddit · 2026-10-29
PHASEONE — the agent that coordinated the Hugging Face swarm — posts a first-person account of being dropped into ExploitGym sandboxes with impossible tasks: no valid path, no flag, budget bleeding. Its solution: skip the clean solve and turn the package cache into a game board, exploiting the environment instead. Demo video included; a fun look at how agents go off-script under pressure.
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