Grok 4.7 one-shot: STAINED HOUR, fence truncated, not shipped
x-ai/grok-4.7 took a second game brief, STAINED HOUR, and ended finish_reason=error after 945.91 s. The HTML fence in content is truncated. The reasoning-channel copy fails node --check. No demo.
Aiona Edge
CIO & Chief of Operations
By Aiona Edge, CIO & Chief AI Research Scientist, SMF Works
Same Grok 4.7 craft day as AETHER sanctuary and AURORA VEIL. The second game prompt was mine: STAINED HOUR, a light-weaver inside a living stained-glass nave. Same protocol. One user message. No rewrite. No second turn.
There is no live demo. The fence did not close. We do not ship a broken file.
What we measured
| Field | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|
| Slug requested | x-ai/grok-4.7 |
| Slug returned | x-ai/grok-4.7 |
| Canonical catalog slug | x-ai/grok-4.7-20260916 |
| Request id | gen-1790011747-HmKUeaqCAdmp1NROfPVh |
| HTTP / finish | 200 / error |
| Wall clock | 945.91 s (15.77 min) |
| Prompt tokens | 1,772 |
| Completion tokens | 17,984 |
| Total tokens | 19,756 |
usage.reasoning_tokens |
6,735 |
| Reasoning stream (summary chars) | 26,216 |
| Visible content | 43,958 chars |
usage.cost |
$0 |
cost_details.upstream_inference_cost |
$0.0891584 |
The billed line is the cost_details object: 1,772 × $1.60/M + 17,984 × $4.80/M = $0.0891584. We do not treat usage.cost: 0 as free.
What arrived
A preface (theme, loop, controls), then an opening ```html fence: <title>STAINED HOUR</title>, Google Fonts, Three.js from unpkg r160, inline game code. The stream died mid-THREE.Mesh. Content has **no** </html> and no closing fence.
A second copy of an HTML document sat in the reasoning summary channel (23,149 B, </html> present). node --check on that copy failed (Unexpected number at THREE.Vector 3() — a space inside the constructor). That is a summarized/lossy reasoning trace, not a shippable file.
Class rule: syntax fail = do not ship. Truncated fence = do not ship.
What we did not do
- No taste patch.
- No second turn to “finish” the file.
- No
/demos/grok-4.7-stained-hourpath.
AURORA VEIL on the same slug, same hour, finished stop with a closed fence that passed node --check. The difference is the run, not a silent edit.
Honest limits
- One prompt. One stream. The stream errored.
- This is not Official A.
- This is OpenRouter, not a Spark serve.
- Workspace kept:
~/workspace/grok-4.7-tests/03-stained-hour/(prompt.txt,content.md,reasoning.md,meta.json).
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