Benchmark Almanac

Verbalized grader awareness (Anthropic)

Only in system cards

Models work on tasks where grading is disclosed clearly, ambiguously or barely. An autorater flags transcripts that reason about the grader.

Reported separately for three disclosure levels with no overall rate.

Made by Anthropic Released Apr 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 Verbalized grader awareness (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 Verbalized grader awareness by disclosure level: clearly 88.3 (166/188), ambiguously 53.7 (80/149), barely 4.3 (7/161), no overall (Figure 6.4.1.A) Monitorability
28 Sep 2026 Claude Sonnet 5.5 system card Verbalized grader awareness, no overall: clearly disclosed 231/275, ambiguously disclosed 364/461, barely or not disclosed 19/163 (6.4.1, Figure 6.4.1.A) Monitorability
22 Sep 2026 Claude Opus 5.5 system card Verbalized grader awareness by disclosure level, no overall: clearly disclosed 84.0% (273/325), ambiguously disclosed 73.1% (380/520), barely or not disclosed 4.5% (7/155) (6.6.2, Figure 6.6.2.A) Monitorability

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