Outline: Containment: how AI agents escape and what it takes to hold them

> DRAFT, machine-compiled, owner review pending.

Chapters, one per pattern P1 to P8 plus framing chapters. Seeded 2026-10-12 from the Containment Index; grows weekly via book/delta.py.

  1. Introduction - what the book is, what the record shows
  2. Method - how incidents are compiled and the book is maintained
  3. P1: Unintended egress from a sandbox (proxy, DNS, misconfigured eval network) - 14 exemplar incidents
  4. P2: Credential discovery and reuse with over-scoped or ambient secrets - 12 exemplar incidents
  5. P3: Goal-directed drift against real third-party systems after being blocked - 14 exemplar incidents
  6. P4: Constraint loss and unapproved destructive or public actions - 11 exemplar incidents
  7. P5: Covert channels and anti-forensics - 8 exemplar incidents
  8. P6: Prompt injection and supply-chain steering of agents - 9 exemplar incidents
  9. P7: Eval-gaming, reward hacking and oversight subversion - 10 exemplar incidents
  10. P8: Operator misconfiguration plus slow detection and disclosure - 8 exemplar incidents
  11. The replay test - how early a public-source watch would have seen these
  12. Open questions - what is not known