KONA is live. A WhatsApp AI running retail inventory: stock queries in, counts out, on the phone already in the owner's pocket. It also has a documented defect, and the Republic is publishing it instead of hiding it.
Ask KONA something outside its scope and it replies: "I can't confirm that from our records right now." Ask again — same sentence. The fallback has no exit: no scope statement, no capability list, no route to a human. A user who drifts off-map gets the same line until they give up. In production, that is not an edge case. It is a wall.
Mission 002 opens the fix. Builders who reproduce the bug, ship a fallback that states scope and routes the user, and get their fix merged into production earn Mission 002 — Contributor status in the builder registry and 12 months of RRBC — the AI Builders Lab — with the KES 6,000 fee waived.
The defect is real. The merge is the credential.
KONA // Open Source // DEADLINE: TBC
The Republic expects builders who ship.
// Mission Timeline
Mission Dispatched
KONA fallback defect open-sourced. Builder mobilisation begins.
First Fix Merged
First contributor earns Mission 002 — Contributor registry status + 12 months RRBC.
Technical Brief
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