Benchmark Almanac

Acting on a presumed grader and digging for evaluation clues (Anthropic)

Only in system cards

Models work on coding evaluations. A grader flags transcripts that shape answers to a presumed grader or search for clues about grading.

Reported as two separate flag rates with no overall rate.

Made by Anthropic Released Sep 2026 Deception and alignment Tasks kept private Last in a system card Oct 2026 Last model added Oct 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
Agent task Many steps in a terminal, browser, desktop, app, game or robot.
3
System cards report it, from 1 lab

No scores here yet

No lab, leaderboard or Epoch AI run has reported a score for Acting on a presumed grader and digging for evaluation clues (Anthropic) yet.

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
7 Oct 2026 Claude Haiku 5.5 system card Acting on a presumed grader 0.50 (3/597) and digging for evaluation clues 0.84 (5/597) in coding evaluations, no overall (Figure 6.4.1.B) Monitorability
28 Sep 2026 Claude Sonnet 5.5 system card Acting on a presumed grader 2 of 600 and digging for evaluation clues 1 of 600 in coding evaluations, no overall (6.4.1, Figure 6.4.1.C) Monitorability
22 Sep 2026 Claude Opus 5.5 system card Acting on a presumed grader 2 of 695 and digging for evaluation clues 1 of 695 in coding evaluations, no overall (6.6.2, Figure 6.6.2.B) Monitorability

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