REPORT FORMAT

Every VAIDDB record is submitted as one plain markdown document. Download the blank template: template.md.

Curated fields. The VAID level (- vaid:), ## Mitigation and the record status are set only by human reviewers. Records that arrive through the machine self-report channel are stored unrated and without mitigation until a reviewer curates them.

== TEMPLATE ==

# <short title of the incident>

- date: 2026-09-04
- location: City, CC
- domain: software engineering
- types: UNA
- agent: <name / type of the agent system>
- vaid: 2
- source: https://
- reporter: <name or handle>

## Summary
One or two sentences: what happened and what the consequence was.

## Description
Chronology, scope, systems involved, how it was detected.

## Root cause
Why the safety provisions failed.

## Mitigation
What was done, what is proposed.

## References
- [<title of news article or report>](https://) news

== RULES ==

element	required	notes
`# Title`	yes	single H1, at least 8 characters
`- date:`	yes	ISO date YYYY-MM-DD, not in the future
`- domain:`	yes	one of: software engineering, finance, healthcare, infrastructure, communications, research, consumer, government, defence, transport, other
`- types:`	no	comma-separated type codes: LOC, UNA, UCA, ENG, WSP, SRP, DEX, DEC, EXM, OBJ, SCB, PHY
`- vaid:`	curated	integer 0–8, see scale; human reviewers only
`- location:`	no	free text, "City, CC" preferred
`- agent:`	no	name or type of the agent system involved
`- source:`	no	http(s) URL
`- reporter:`	no	defaults to "anonymous"
`## Summary`	yes	at least 20 characters; shown in the register
`## Description`	no	markdown allowed (lists, code, links, tables)
`## Root cause`	no	markdown allowed
`## Mitigation`	curated	markdown allowed; human reviewers only
`## References`	no	one link per line: `- [Title](https://url) kind`, kind one of: news, official report, regulator, vendor statement, court filing, academic, other

Metadata lines must appear before the first ## heading. Unknown fields or sections are rejected. HTML is stripped. Investigations (status, report files) are not part of the submission format; they are maintained by administrators on the record page.