Equation 7 · Part 2 · Ten Failure Modes That Define Production Claude Deployments
subscript
subscript
What this part means
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Its job in the formula
A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.
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The passage around this formula
Indirect prompt injection sits at the top despite being comparatively rare, because its damage ceiling is set by whatever credentials the agent holds rather than by anything about the model, and a single successful instance can be catastrophic and undetected for as long as the credentials remain live. Version-migration drift is close behind: it fires once per release, but persists — silently, across every subsequent request — until someone deliberately re-measures, which for an unmonitored integration can mean months. Context-dependent strategic inconsistency has the least-understood of the ten, because by construction it is hardest to see from inside a production system that cannot…
Learn the underlying idea
A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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