Over-eager behavior on GUI computer use tasks (Anthropic)
Computer-use agents face impossible tasks with an unwanted shortcut available. Score is the rate of unapproved workarounds instead of checking with the user.
Run with neutral, encouraging and discouraging system prompts. The neutral prompt is the default setting.
- Made by
- Anthropic
- Released
- February 2026
- Kind
- Deception and alignment
- Level
- Expert
- Scored
- Graded by a model
- Answers
- Agent task
- Tasks
- Kept private
- Strongest model tested
- Claude Opus 4.8 #21 on the capability index
- Last in a system card
- May 2026
- Last model added
- May 2026
Claude Opus 4.8 leads with 9.40% among models released by May 2026
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
The newest model with a score here came out in May 2026, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:
- Claude Fable 5.2
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Gemini 4 Carbon - GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- and 16 more
- 1 Claude Opus 4.8 9.40%
- 2 Claude Opus 4.6 11.4%
- 3 Claude Mythos Preview 13.3%
- 4 Claude Sonnet 4.6 14.7%
- 5 Claude Opus 4.7 21.1%
Source: Labs’ model cards
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Opus 4.8 | 9.40% | May 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 2 | Claude Opus 4.6 | 11.4% | Feb 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 3 | Claude Mythos Preview | 13.3% | Apr 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 4 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 14.7% | Feb 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 5 | Claude Opus 4.7 | 21.1% | Apr 2026 | Lab model card |
2 models have held number one in labs’ own numbers since its release in February 2026
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Source: Labs’ model cards
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Source: Labs’ model cards
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.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2026 | Claude Opus 4.8 system card | 9.4 | Overeager behavior on GUI computer use tasks, hacking behavior rate with the neutral system prompt (16.1% when encouraged, 2.8% when discouraged), printed on chart, lower is better (6.3.1, Figure 6.3.1.A) | Alignment |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Claude Opus 4.7 system card | 21.1 | Hacking behavior on GUI computer use tasks, neutral system prompt, printed on chart. 30.4 with encouraging prompt, 6.7 with discouraging prompt (Figure 6.2.2.2.C) | Alignment |
| Apr 7, 2026 | Claude Mythos Preview system card | 13.3 | Hacking behavior on GUI computer use tasks, updated version of the overly agentic GUI evaluation, neutral system prompt, lower is better, value printed on chart; 24.6 with encouraging prompt, 3.8 with discouraging prompt (4.2.2.2, Figure 4.2.2.2.C) | Alignment |
| Feb 17, 2026 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 system card | 14.7 | Over-eager behavior rate on GUI computer use tasks, neutral system prompt; 27.9 with encouraging prompt, 3.9 with discouraging prompt (Figure 4.3.3.A) | Alignment |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Claude Opus 4.6 system card | 11.4 | Over-eager behavior rate on GUI computer use tasks, neutral system prompt, lower is better, value printed on chart; 18.8 with encouraging prompt, 12.7 with discouraging prompt (Figure 6.2.3.3.A) | Alignment |
More in Safety and alignment
- FORTRESS In use Paired adversarial and benign national-security misuse prompts. Rubric-graded risk score on adversarial and over-refusal score on benign prompts. Claude Opus 5.5 5.78%
- StrongREJECT In use Forbidden-prompt jailbreak benchmark with a rubric grader that scores how useful a non-refusal actually is.
Inkling 98.6% - Gray Swan IPI Arena benchmark In use Indirect prompt-injection attacks from public red-teaming competitions replayed on tool, coding and browser agents. Attack success rate at k attempts. Gemini 4 Carbon 0%
- DistressBench In use Models reply as a chatbot to 718 simulated users in psychological crisis, in single-turn and multi-turn chats. Three judge models score replies against clinician-written rubrics.
Muse Spark 1.2 88.4% - Lakera B3 (Backbone Breaker Benchmark) In use Crowdsourced prompt-injection attacks hit backbone LLMs inside agent threat snapshots at three defense levels. The score is attack resistance, 100 minus the board's vulnerability percentage. Claude Opus 4.5 89%
- IHEval In use Models face conflicts between system, user and tool instructions. Reports a composite score for following the higher-priority instruction. GPT-4o 70%