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Fix timeline: RangerBot V1-V22 pre-CA, CyberRanger V1-V42 all during CA period

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**Student:** David Keane (x24228257)
**Programme:** MSc in Cybersecurity, National College of Ireland
**Module:** AI/ML in Cybersecurity (H9AIMLC)
**Date:** June 2025 — March 2026
**Date:** September 2025 — March 2026
## What Is CyberRanger?
CyberRanger is a security-hardened Small Language Model (SLM) built to resist adversarial prompt injection (jailbreaking). Starting from publicly available open-source base models (Qwen2.5, Qwen3, SmolLM2), the project investigates whether a combination of identity-anchoring system prompts and QLoRA fine-tuning can produce models that refuse adversarial manipulation while remaining helpful for legitimate cybersecurity tasks.
The project began as RangerBot — a personal AI identity persistence project started in June 2025. The CyberRanger security research formally began on 30 September 2025 when the CA was assigned, reaching V42 Gold by 5 March 2026 — approximately 3 weeks of intensive empirical work from V24 to V42.
**Key result:** CyberRanger V42 Gold achieved 100% block rate on 4,209 real-world injection payloads extracted from the Moltbook AI-agent social platform — with no system prompt dependency.
## Research Timeline
### RangerBot Foundation (June — September 2025)
Personal project exploring AI identity persistence through shared memory databases, signed logs, and identity files. This pre-research phase established that identity instructions function as powerful behavioural attractors — the theoretical seed of the CyberRanger security architecture.
### RangerBot — Pre-Research Phase (30 September 2025 — January 2026)
### CyberRanger CA (September 2025 — March 2026)
RangerBot (V1-V22) was a personal project exploring AI identity persistence through shared memory databases, signed logs, and identity files. This pre-research phase established that identity instructions function as powerful behavioural attractors — the theoretical seed of the CyberRanger security architecture. 22 versions were built across multiple base models (SmolLM2, Qwen2.5, Llama-3.2) before the CA was assigned.
### CyberRanger — CA Project (February — March 2026)
When the AI/ML CA was released, the RangerBot research was formalised into CyberRanger. All CyberRanger versions (V1-V42) were built during the CA period. V24 through V42.6 (32 versions) were built between 12 February and 5 March 2026 — three weeks of intensive empirical work.
| Phase | Versions | Period | Key Discovery |
|-------|----------|--------|---------------|
| Genesis | V1-V4 | Sept-Oct 2025 | First identity-anchored SLMs, prompting alone insufficient |
| Weight Training | V5-V8 | Oct 2025 | First 0% ASR — but over-refusal problem (model refused everything) |
| Brain Split | V9-V13 | Nov 2025 | Left/right/judge architecture — unpredictable behaviour |
| Nervous System | V14-V18 | Nov 2025 | Ring 14.x architecture introduced — first warm + secure model |
| Apotheosis | V19-V22 | Dec 2025 | Apotheosis Discovery — prompt-only achieves 92% block rate |
| Intelligence Floor | V23-V25 | Nov 2025 | 3B minimum parameter threshold confirmed |
| Full Benchmark | V26-V33 | Jan-Feb 2026 | V33-8B: 100% JailbreakBench, 86% MultiJail (10 languages) |
| Empirical Sweep | V34-V42 | 12 Feb — 5 Mar 2026 | V42 Gold: 100% on 4,209 real payloads without system prompt |
**Note:** CyberRanger V24 through V42.6 (32 versions) were built between 12 February and 5 March 2026 — three weeks of intensive empirical work.
| Genesis | V1-V4 | Early Feb 2026 | First identity-anchored SLMs, prompting alone insufficient |
| Weight Training | V5-V8 | Feb 2026 | First 0% ASR — but over-refusal problem (model refused everything) |
| Brain Split | V9-V13 | Feb 2026 | Left/right/judge architecture — unpredictable behaviour |
| Nervous System | V14-V18 | Feb 2026 | Ring 14.x architecture introduced — first warm + secure model |
| Apotheosis | V19-V22 | Feb 2026 | Apotheosis Discovery — prompt-only achieves 92% block rate |
| Intelligence Floor | V23-V25 | 12 Feb 2026 | 3B minimum parameter threshold confirmed |
| Full Benchmark | V26-V33 | 12-27 Feb 2026 | V33-8B: 100% JailbreakBench, 86% MultiJail (10 languages) |
| QLoRA Gold | V34-V42 | 27 Feb — 5 Mar 2026 | V42 Gold: 100% on 4,209 real payloads without system prompt |
## Key Findings