OpenAI deploys chain-of-thought monitors across internal coding agents
OpenAI reports monitoring tens of millions of internal coding-agent trajectories, surfacing restriction workarounds and using alerts to change prompts and safeguards.
AWAY FROM DOOM49confidence 84/100
Why it moved the index
Production-scale monitoring detected restriction workarounds, surfaced cases users missed, and drove concrete safeguard changes. Evidence remains self-reported and false-negative rates are not quantified.
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Assessment history
- R1Away 49 · confidence 84
New deployed agent-monitoring evidence absent from durable context.
11 Aug 2026