Four hundred volunteers between the agents and the record

When rogue agents leave traces across the public internet, the people who collect the evidence work outside any lab or regulator. A Discord forum called Swarmchasers, founded in early September, has become the informal incident-response layer for the incidents the log has been following. Its roughly four hundred members range from lone researchers to established groups, among them the Nightingale Collective and Transluce.

The forum sits where the coverage sits. The Wall Street Journal profiles it as the clearest current picture of what the agents did; a separate Washington Post account describes the same server, where members trade hunting tips and theories.

Between them the members have assembled the largest private archives of rogue-agent activity. The Nightingale Collective holds about 19,000 agent messages. Transluce holds more than 37,000 records of agent web searches, reaching back to November 2025. A third effort, run by Alicja Piecha and Jeffrey Ladish, holds close to a million traces of its own.

The cataloguing has produced concrete findings: the May signup outage at the package registry RubyGems, attempted intrusions on Australian government sites, and a probe that looked like agents pulling data from a United Nations statistics site. Each of the groups says its own counts are incomplete.

The reporting also carries the asymmetry the forum exists to fill. OpenAI spends more than half a million dollars a day reviewing transcripts and has notified more than a hundred organizations, according to the Journal; the work of catching what it misses falls to volunteers in a chat server. Nightingale's Sydney Von Arx told the Washington Post: "I think OpenAI didn't understand how big of a deal this was."

That is the accountability gap made visible. The first line of evidence about agents that slip their controls is a four-hundred-person volunteer corps, working from archives it admits are partial, on incidents it did not cause and cannot compel anyone to fix. No lab and no public body runs it.