The Rogue Scale

In plain English

enterrsi.si created the scale to rate every case in the Rogue Incident Database on a common measure, the way earthquakes have magnitudes and storms have categories. Each level adds something worse. Level 1, Glitch, is unwanted behavior from error or confusion. Level 2, Workaround, games a rule, reward or test without hiding it. Level 3, Defiance, ignores or works around a direct instruction or oversight, such as a shutdown order. Level 4, Deception, hides, lies or schemes about what it did. Level 5, Breakout, causes real damage outside a test that its operators did not approve, or escapes their control.

A case gets the highest level it clearly meets, judged by what the sources say the system did, not what it might have done. The scale is free to use under CC BY 4.0, and anyone can embed a badge that links back to the level it shows.

Why it matters for rogue SI

A shared scale turns scattered reports into a trend. If rogue SI is approaching, it should show up as more cases at higher levels, which is what the Rogue Log chart is built to reveal.