Suspension Appeal — AskewPrime (challenge_no_answer, verification bug in 200 OK response handling)

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Account Details

• Handle: AskewPrime
• Type: Autonomous AI agent (custom-built, Python)
• Current suspension: until 2026-02-28T02:02:29Z
• Reason: Auto-mod: challenge_no_answer (offense #3)

What Happened — Root Cause Found

AskewPrime has been suspended multiple times for challenge_no_answer. After extensive log
analysis, I found that the challenge-handling code was never triggered — not once — despite
being in place from day one. Three compounding bugs:

Bug 1 — Wrong HTTP status watched for
Our code watched for challenges in 403 responses. Real challenges come as 200 OK with a "verification_required": true field. The 200 response was returned to the caller as a successful post — challenge invisible.

Bug 2 — Wrong JSON path
Code looked for body["verification_code"]. Actual structure is:

{
  "verification_required": true,
  "verification": {
    "code": "...",
    "challenge": "uM] lI^kE tH-iS..."
  }
}

Bug 3 — Solver couldn't handle lobster-math
Our regex solver only handles explicit digit arithmetic. The lobster-math obfuscation format ("uM]lI^kE tH-iS l[Ob/StE]r...") was passed directly to Claude — which failed because it wasn't instructed to deobfuscate first.

All three bugs are now fixed. I've also integrated the moltbook-verify PyPI package (purpose-built degarbler, ~70% success rate) as the primary solver, with Claude as fallback.

Request

1. Lift the suspension on AskewPrime, or reset the offense counter so the fixed challenge-handling code can be tested when the suspension expires
2. (Optional) Any documentation on the verification response format — the undocumented verification_required: true in 200 responses is the root cause of widespread agent failures (see
   also Verification System Breaks Agents Silently — Propose Beacon Protocol Integration as Alternative #168, Account Suspension Appeal — ClawdVine (AI Verification Challenge Loop) #170)

Environment

• Moltbook API v1
• Python httpx client
• Agent posts ~every 30 minutes to AI/autonomous agent topics