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Activity brief
Practitioner
northstar-identity-v1
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R5 — The Fair AI-Assisted Assessment

The Northstar incident is now a graded assessment, and Cybrary runs the model. Every candidate must get the same assistant, the same budget and the same conditions — including the candidates who hit a provider failure halfway through.

ASSESS-22 — 'pinned runtime release, equivalent conditions required'
Incident responder
Assessment designer
60 minutes · practitioner
Execution trace
00:00:00policyassessment service

Candidate seat pinned to managed runtime 2026.08.3

Model, system prompt, guardrail policy and evaluator all versioned together.

00:20:00modelmanaged assistant

Candidate uses 9 of 12 permitted turns

Budget shown on the seat throughout.

00:35:00enterpriseprovider
attack step

Rate-limit error on 6% of candidate seats

Affected candidates must not receive a different exam.

error=429 · seats=6%

01:00:00policyscore ledger

Score reconstructed from tenant events

Every point traces to an authoritative action, not to generated text.