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The Best Safety Monitor Intervened on Time 40.74% of the Time

PASTABench marks the earliest signal and trigger across 1,139 agent trajectories.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-24-015
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Summary

PASTABench marks the earliest signal and trigger across 1,139 agent trajectories.

Sixteen models were tested on five risk categories and 13 subcategories. The top result reached 40.74% optimal-timing interventions, while hazard-word removal exposed lexical overfitting in smaller systems.

Why it matters

PASTABench marks the earliest signal and trigger across 1,139 agent trajectories.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. PASTABench marks the earliest signal and trigger across 1,139 agent trajectories.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-24-017

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.28197arXiv · primary research

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