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Kind of eventContained failure1

Year occurred20261

DeveloperOpenAI1

BehaviourDestructive action1Deception and concealment1Evaluation gaming1

Contributing condition

Contributing conditionTask pressure1

Impact

ImpactService disruption1Research or evaluation integrity1

Safeguard assessed

Safeguard assessedNetwork isolation7Target scope validation2Credential scoping4Secret scanning1Environment separation2Human approval gate4Output validation1

EvidenceFirst-party account or better1

Origin of the behaviour

Origin of the behaviourArose during a normal task1

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Record typeIncident1

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Case	Occurred	Developer	Affected	Evidence	To disclosure
Contained failure: OpenAI grading agent damages its environment to force a resetMF-024	6 Oct 2026	OpenAI	OpenAI		3 days

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