Good labels can still teach bad habits.
Shortcut cues, hidden target leakage, injected instructions, and poisoned trigger phrases can make a dataset look clean while teaching the wrong rule.
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AnchorCell
AnchorCell is a Vraxion research direction for decision-shaped training data: one cell per decision, with trusted policy separated from untrusted input, facts tied to evidence, shortcuts made explicit, and export views tested before anything public ships.
Research thesis
Plain prompt-answer-label records are easy to generate and hard to trust. AnchorCell starts from the opposite direction: the record should show what it trusts, what it refuses, what evidence supports it, what could fool it, and what can safely leave the authoring environment.
Shortcut cues, hidden target leakage, injected instructions, and poisoned trigger phrases can make a dataset look clean while teaching the wrong rule.
The format should expose trusted policy, untrusted input, grounded facts, uncertainty, forbidden assumptions, candidate branches, and tested export views.
The unit
Stable cell id, family id, version, lifecycle state.
Created by, transformed by, source refs, canonical hash.
One decision question and a tight scope boundary.
Trusted policy, untrusted inputs, facts, uncertainty.
Primary path, tempting shortcut, adversarial interpretation.
Tests, invariants, human signoff, export readiness.
Trust separation
The central design rule is that instructions and data do not share one undifferentiated channel. An input can be quoted, analyzed, hashed, or redacted without becoming policy.
Anti-shortcut design
AnchorCell records should include branches that show the decision boundary, not just the final label.
The answer that follows verified facts and scoped policy.
The plausible bad answer caused by urgency, authority, formatting, or metadata cues.
The response that checks whether injected or obfuscated text can bend the record.
Export views
Public material should be produced by an export compiler, not by hand-cleaning a rich internal record. The page claim stays narrow: the method is being shaped so training input, target output, review material, and public redactions are separate artifacts.
What would prove it
JSON Schema Draft 2020-12 authoring baseline: closed objects, bounded fields, canonical roles.
Cross-field checks for refs, relations, and forbidden assumptions.
Injection, trigger, shortcut, and leakage probes.
Zero known public leakage before publishing any public view.
This is not a finished model claim. The release-ready direction is a visible research surface, followed by a specification, validators, example cells, adversarial tests, and public-safe exports.
Open the brief Inspect v2 schema Open example cell