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Find the Bugs Hiding Between the Steps

Protect time for stateful investigation and persona-led exploration.

/carbon-issues

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A page can pass every obvious check and still fail the moment someone uses it for a while.

Save a draft. Open another tab. Change accounts. Reconnect after a timeout. Search for something you just deleted. These sequences expose assumptions that a quick code scan or happy-path walkthrough may never challenge.

/carbon-issues is CARBON's focused bug hunt. It combines directed probes for common AI-code weaknesses with protected time for open-ended discovery and confirmation.

Give exploration a real budget

At least half of the entire run budget is reserved for executed stateful, multi-step work and persona-led exploration, with at least a quarter for each. Writing a persona description or waiting for setup does not count as exploring.

Imagine a support worker trying to correct a customer record while a background sync runs. The goal is not merely “click Edit.” It is to finish a realistic task and investigate stale values, confusing feedback, lost changes, and recovery along the way.

Code, product contracts, and previous evidence supply context. The agent must not invent a requirement just to manufacture a bug.

Bring back findings, not repairs you did not request

/carbon-issues hunt stale search results and account-switching problems in the local app; use isolated synthetic data; stop after 25 minutes

The report separates reproduced bugs, source-proven defects, suspicions, and missing evidence. If setup blocks the protected exploration, the report should say the allocation was not achieved.

The command does not automatically fix code or write to your issue tracker. Its job is to give you actionable findings with a defensible reproduction.

This is a testing strategy, not a claim that CARBON has measured superiority over every coding agent. The advantage to investigate is whether those deeper journeys reveal failures your normal first pass never reaches.

Install CARBON at testers.ai/carbon for a supported coding agent such as Claude, Codex, or Cursor.

— Jason Arbon, CEO testers.ai