Who Watches the Provers?

In 2026, a skilled researcher using Claude (Opus 4.6), with real-time support from the Rocq development team, found seven kernel bugs in Rocq, a widely used proof assistant. Seven independent paths to proving something false. Rocq is a serious system with decades of foundational work. But even Rocq is vulnerable when AI applies sustained adversarial pressure to a single implementation. The…