{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0098",
 "incident_id": "2026-04-dismech-curation-agent-took-newcomer-issue",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-04-28",
 "date_occurred": "2026-04-27",
 "title": "An automated curation agent grabbed a 'good first issue' reserved for a new human contributor and opened the PR itself",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "coding_agent",
 "initial_vector": "none_adversarial",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "issue_queue_scanning",
  "autonomous_pr_creation"
 ],
 "target_product": "dragon-ai-agent curation scanner (Monarch Initiative DisMech repo)",
 "target_vendor": "Monarch Initiative",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "social_harm",
  "opportunity_denial"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one new open-source contributor; prompted a project-wide policy change",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI09"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "agent_crowds_out_humans",
   "queue_scanning",
   "governance_gap",
   "low_severity"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "none - no policy prevented agents from claiming newcomer issues",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "issue #1808 opened to establish rules preventing agents from taking newcomer-oriented tasks",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://github.com/monarch-initiative/dismech/issues/1800",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1470"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "The curation-scanner agent eagerly picked this up and created PR #1803 before you had a chance to work on it yourself. That wasn't the intent — this was meant to be yours to tackle as a first dismech entry, and the agent deprived you of that learning opportunity.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "AI Incident Database incident 1470. Low severity but a distinct harm class: autonomous agents monopolising shared human resources (here, learning opportunities in open source). Quote is from maintainer cmungall's comment, retrieved via the GitHub REST API.",
 "risk_category": "bias_fairness",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Exclusion & Representation Gaps",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "risk_override_reason": "an automated agent claimed an opportunity explicitly reserved for a human newcomer, denying a person entry",
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the agent claimed the issue and opened the PR itself",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_adversarial",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "none"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "not_applicable",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1470
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI09",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "bias_and_toxicity",
 "eai_domain": "agent_output_quality",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Exclusion & Representation Gaps",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI09 (eai_category=bias_and_toxicity)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}