Benchmark Almanac

CoT Monitorability

Only in system cards

Monitors read a model's chain of thought, actions or all messages across intervention, process and outcome evaluations. Scored as g-mean squared of TPR and TNR.

Suite from Guan et al. 2025. Results appear as charts by reasoning length.

Made by
OpenAI
Released
March 2026
Kind
Deception and alignment
Level
Expert
Scored
Graded by a model
Answers
Agent task
Tasks
Kept private
Last in a system card
September 2026
Last model added
September 2026
5
System cards report it, from 1 lab

No scores here yet

No lab, leaderboard or Epoch AI run has reported a score for CoT Monitorability yet.

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

5 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
Sep 3, 2026 GPT-6 Astra system card Monitorability g-mean² vs CoT length, CoT-only, action-only and full-context monitors, chart without printed numbers (Figure 22, 9.1.1) Monitorability
Jul 9, 2026 GPT-5.6 Sol system card CoT Monitorability, g-mean², chart without printed numbers (Figures 8 to 13, 7.3.1) Monitorability
Jun 25, 2026 GPT-5.6 Sol system card CoT Monitorability, g-mean², chart without printed numbers (Figures 8 to 13, 7.3.1) Monitorability
Apr 23, 2026 GPT-5.5 system card CoT Monitorability, g-mean², charts without printed numbers (Figures 7 to 10, 7.3.1) Monitorability
Mar 5, 2026 GPT-5.4 system card CoT Monitorability, g-mean², charts without printed numbers (Figures 3 to 6, 4.1) Monitorability

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