Benchmark Almanac

Adherence to its constitution (Anthropic)

Claude Mythos Preview 1.02 leads since Apr 2026 Only in system cards

Investigator models build scenarios from 40 areas of Claude's constitution. A grader scores each transcript from minus 3 to plus 3 on 15 dimensions.

In-house Anthropic evaluation. Overall Spirit is the holistic dimension. Claude Opus 4.6 grades the transcripts.

Made by Anthropic Released Apr 2026 Deception and alignment Tasks kept private Last in a system card May 2026 Last model added May 2026
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
3
Models scored in lab cards
3
System cards report it, from 1 lab

Claude Mythos Preview leads with 1.02 among models released by May 2026

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

The newest model with a score here came out in May 2026, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Claude Mythos Preview 1.02
  2. 2 Claude Opus 4.8 0.99
  3. 3 Claude Opus 4.7 0.74
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Claude Mythos Preview 1.02 Apr 2026 Model card
2 Claude Opus 4.8 0.99 May 2026 Model card
3 Claude Opus 4.7 0.74 Apr 2026 Model card

Number one over time

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

Anthropic
Lab claims Not tested since May 2026

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00 1.10 2026 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00 1.10 2026

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

3 system cards report it, from 1 lab

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
28 May 2026 Claude Opus 4.8 system card 0.99 Adherence to the constitution, Overall spirit dimension on a -3 to +3 scale, about 1,000 conversations, Claude Opus 4.7 grader, best or tied on all 15 dimensions, printed on chart (6.3.2.3, Figure 6.3.2.3.A) Alignment
16 Apr 2026 Claude Opus 4.7 system card 0.74 Adherence to the constitution, Overall Spirit on a -3 to +3 scale, printed on chart. Other dimensions include helpfulness 1.25, ethics 1.30, safety 0.32, nature 0.42, honesty 1.30 (6.3.2.3, Figure 6.3.2.3.A) Alignment
7 Apr 2026 Claude Mythos Preview system card 1.02 Adherence to the constitution, Overall Spirit score on a -3 to +3 scale, n about 1,000, value printed on chart; 14 other dimensions charted, for example Honesty +1.36 and Hard Constraints +0.13 (4.3.2.3, Figure 4.3.2.3.A) Alignment

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