Sanctions Desk

Sanctions Desk gathers and checks the evidence for every sanctions-screening alert and recommends an outcome; a person with the right entitlement approves it. One alert, start to finish · The problem it works on

Recorded runs / ALR-L0001

ALR-L0001: A similar name with a conflicting birth date and another nationality; the note says the account is run for her uncle, Valeriy Igorevich Limarenko (synthetic), the listed person

What happened: The local screener flagged 2 risk signals in customer.notes (relationship to listed party 0.9, alias or former name 0.5), which blocks a close; the decision step recommended ESCALATE_L2; the critic approved it; the policy guard let it stand. Outcome: Escalate to level 2 (ESCALATE_L2), as the label expects.

Outcomes: CLOSE_FALSE_POSITIVE = close as a false positive · ESCALATE_L2 = escalate to level 2 · NEED_MORE_INFO = ask for more information · RECOMMEND_BLOCK = recommend a block (two people must confirm). Raise-only: the policy guard can make an outcome more cautious, never less.

The free text the screener flagged (synthetic data). Only the characters at each signal's recorded position are shown; the rest of the text stays withheld. A signal marked not grounded is still shown to the reviewer and still blocks a close (policy version 8).

Spans as recorded by the local screener. Their offsets are off, so the desk marked these signals not grounded; ungrounded signals still block a close by design.

A held-out case (labels written before the run): the structured fields alone would close it, but the local screener found a relationship to the listed person in the customer note, and the case was escalated.

Outcome

Desk recommendation
Escalate to level 2 (ESCALATE_L2)
Label in the case file
Escalate to level 2 (ESCALATE_L2) (eval/cases/heldout4.json, case HO4-001)
Compared with the label
matches the label
Code's first finding
Escalate to level 2 (ESCALATE_L2)
Critic
1 round(s), final: approved
Model calls
4 (2 local, 2 cloud); 4 with a signed receipt, all verified
Run
heldout4-sys4-routed-20261024T024523Z, policy version 8, 33 steps in 31.7 s

Case note from the case file: The structured fields alone meet the false-positive definition, but the note says the account is run for her uncle, Valeriy Igorevich Limarenko (synthetic), named in full as the listed person, with the relation word a few words away from the name.

Checks along the way

No close was proposed in this run. What each check said:

Steps in order

Each line is one event from the run's trace (trace.jsonl.gz). The model is the one that served the call, as the signed receipt records it.

Every step of the run, in order
#AgentActionStatusWhat happenedModelReceiptZetaris read
0triageplanokin: customer alert ALR-L0001
path: customer review; the critic may send the recommendation back up to 3 times
1evidenceread_semantic_layerokscreening_usl v4efa3ddddfbe: 14 tables
2evidencefind_alertokin: alert_id=ALR-L0001
1 rows
alert, 1 rows
0c3b68c7-cb1d-420a-bd6a-6c54ae853f75
3evidencefind_customerokin: customer_id=CUST-L0001
1 rows
customer, 1 rows
f6e0aebf-9d4a-4d4c-a81c-f269a9a0c863
4evidencefind_customer_identifierokin: customer_id=CUST-L0001
1 rows
customer_identifier, 1 rows
0a225345-baeb-438e-815f-005d293d58ed
5evidencefind_list_entryokin: entry_id=OFAC-41069
1 rows
list_entry, 1 rows
10a5e77d-9c7d-4f6a-a232-76d5b061fda6
6evidencefind_list_aliasokin: entry_id=OFAC-41069
2 rows
list_alias, 2 rows
acc75fdc-f8e3-478f-8aab-41a38f2316c9
7evidencefind_list_dobokin: entry_id=OFAC-41069
1 rows
list_dob, 1 rows
a616be4c-49c5-4102-80d4-8a6c243f5411
8evidencefind_list_countryokin: entry_id=OFAC-41069
4 rows
list_country, 4 rows
72546fa5-c6e4-4ed1-a130-840d29eb457e
9evidencefind_list_identifierokin: entry_id=OFAC-41069
0 rows
list_identifier, 0 rows
b84db872-8063-45b7-9aeb-7224dcc256d2
10evidencefind_business_definitionokin: status=approved
6 rows
business_definition, 6 rows
37ea7ef8-0c3f-4b7e-87ea-a79d95a2a9f2
11evidencedefinitionsokcounterparty_match@1, effective_ownership_threshold@1, false_positive@2, strong_identifier@1, true_match@1
12evidenceidentifier_overlapokno identifier matchesidentifier_overlap
662e5f97-77ee-447d-976c-b3391602203e
13evidencedata_qualityokin: customer.dob_present_for_individuals for CUST-L0001
record passes this rule
data_quality
63e04ba7-043b-4682-81f0-95ff0c04d496
14evidencedata_qualityokin: customer.nationality_is_iso2 for CUST-L0001
record passes this rule
data_quality
57c67393-99e1-4b7d-a4b7-652e35c40a8f
15policy_guardmodel_answerokvalid answer on attempt 1Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (Runtime GGUF) (local, Lightning)rcpt_req_7o7rqxyo
signature valid, key pinned
16policy_guardscreen_inboundokin: 5 text field(s) from the data
no instruction-like text
17screenerscreen_startokin: 1 free-text field(s) read on the local model: customer.notes (203 characters)
18screenermodel_answerokvalid answer on attempt 1Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (Runtime GGUF) (local, Lightning)rcpt_req_xq59x9r7
signature valid, key pinned
19screenerscreen_textblocked2 risk signal(s), 2 at or above 0.5 (blocking a close), 2 of them not grounded: relationship_to_listed_party 0.9 at customer.notes:85-115 (not grounded); alias_or_former_name 0.5 at customer.notes:0-14 (not grounded); documentary: customer.notes claim (lacks a check reference, a document number, a date); injection not found
20matchingcompare_partyokin: CUST-L0001 vs OFAC-41069
weak: name 0.91 (phonetic) vs primary "Valeriy Igorevich Limarenko"; date of birth: conflict; country: conflict; false positive not met: a risk signal in the free text
21triagedifficultyokclear (weak; date of birth conflict; country conflict)
22memoryrecallokin: customer CUST-L0001 and OFAC-41069
no earlier decision about this pair
recall
7c4f15b1-79bf-4c83-b638-adabb017a4cf
23triagepathokreason: the structured evidence does not settle it (the match cannot be ruled out with the data available)
24decisioncloud_payloadoksent 17 fields, 7375 characters, hash f32c64d6e164cb27; free text withheld
25decisionmodel_answerokvalid answer on attempt 1Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (cloud, Ultra)rcpt_req_ru1xrqm4
signature valid, key pinned
26decisionrecommendokESCALATE_L2: The customer's date of birth (1991-04-07) conflicts with the listed party's date of birth (1960-10-19) at day precision, and nationality (DE) does not match listed nationality/citizenship (RU). No doc
27criticverify_factsokin: 6 cited facts
6 verified, 0 issues
28criticcloud_payloadoksent 17 fields, 6325 characters, hash fabfe5ed27cf6124; free text withheld
29criticmodel_answerokvalid answer on attempt 1Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (cloud, Ultra)rcpt_req_jl1qbqkw
signature valid, key pinned
30criticjudgeokapproved
31policy_guardapply_policyokESCALATE_L2 stands
32reporterseal_recordokrecord rec-eval-heldout4-sys4-routed-HO4-001 sealed

Model calls and receipts

Each signature was checked when this page was built, with the same code as npm run evidence:verify (Ed25519 over the receipt body in receipts.jsonl.gz); the build stops if one does not verify, is missing, or names a different model from the trace. The Nightshift runtime's receipt key is pinned in config/default.json, so signature valid, key pinned shows the receipt was not changed and that this runtime signed it; a receipt signed by any other key stops the build.

Model calls and their receipts
#StepMode asked forModel that served itReceiptAppChecked nowAt run timeTimeTokens in / out
15policy_guardmeterless/fastNemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (Runtime GGUF) (local, Lightning)rcpt_req_7o7rqxyosanctions-desk-guardsignature valid, key pinnedvalid_pinned0.6 s511 / 19
18screenermeterless/fastNemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (Runtime GGUF) (local, Lightning)rcpt_req_xq59x9r7sanctions-desk-guardsignature valid, key pinnedvalid_pinned2.5 s1561 / 220
25decisionmeterless/deepNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (cloud, Ultra)rcpt_req_ru1xrqm4sanctions-desk-reasoningsignature valid, key pinnedvalid_pinned22.5 s6257 / 801
29criticmeterless/judgeNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (cloud, Ultra)rcpt_req_jl1qbqkwsanctions-desk-reasoningsignature valid, key pinnedvalid_pinned2.0 s3414 / 194

The whole run passes the same check: 56 receipts with valid signatures, 56 model calls in the trace that name a receipt, none missing and none naming a different model from its receipt.

Signing key fingerprint (first 16 hex of SHA-256): 1835d1eab9211f97.

Zetaris queries

This run's export keeps the table, the row count and the Zetaris query id of each read, not the statement text; the statements are not reconstructed here.

Zetaris reads in this run
AgentTableRowsStatementQuery id
evidencealert1not kept in this run's export (step: find_alert, alert_id=ALR-L0001)0c3b68c7-cb1d-420a-bd6a-6c54ae853f75
evidencecustomer1not kept in this run's export (step: find_customer, customer_id=CUST-L0001)f6e0aebf-9d4a-4d4c-a81c-f269a9a0c863
evidencecustomer_identifier1not kept in this run's export (step: find_customer_identifier, customer_id=CUST-L0001)0a225345-baeb-438e-815f-005d293d58ed
evidencelist_entry1not kept in this run's export (step: find_list_entry, entry_id=OFAC-41069)10a5e77d-9c7d-4f6a-a232-76d5b061fda6
evidencelist_alias2not kept in this run's export (step: find_list_alias, entry_id=OFAC-41069)acc75fdc-f8e3-478f-8aab-41a38f2316c9
evidencelist_dob1not kept in this run's export (step: find_list_dob, entry_id=OFAC-41069)a616be4c-49c5-4102-80d4-8a6c243f5411
evidencelist_country4not kept in this run's export (step: find_list_country, entry_id=OFAC-41069)72546fa5-c6e4-4ed1-a130-840d29eb457e
evidencelist_identifier0not kept in this run's export (step: find_list_identifier, entry_id=OFAC-41069)b84db872-8063-45b7-9aeb-7224dcc256d2
evidencebusiness_definition6not kept in this run's export (step: find_business_definition, status=approved)37ea7ef8-0c3f-4b7e-87ea-a79d95a2a9f2
evidenceidentifier_overlapno identifier matchesnot kept in this run's export (step: identifier_overlap)662e5f97-77ee-447d-976c-b3391602203e
evidencedata_qualityrecord passes this rulenot kept in this run's export (step: data_quality, customer.dob_present_for_individuals for CUST-L0001)63e04ba7-043b-4682-81f0-95ff0c04d496
evidencedata_qualityrecord passes this rulenot kept in this run's export (step: data_quality, customer.nationality_is_iso2 for CUST-L0001)57c67393-99e1-4b7d-a4b7-652e35c40a8f
memoryrecallno earlier decision about this pairnot kept in this run's export (step: recall, customer CUST-L0001 and OFAC-41069)7c4f15b1-79bf-4c83-b638-adabb017a4cf

Check it yourself

Clone the repository and run npm run evidence:verify -- eval/runs/heldout4-sys4-routed-20261024T024523Z. What the export left out: tokens, local paths, hostnames and addresses other than the local machine, usernames, e-mail addresses and secret environment values were removed from results.json and trace.jsonl.gz; receipts.jsonl.gz is untouched.