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No. 178

VeriHarm-Bench: "harmful success" in coding agents, measured

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frontier agents average 95% task accuracy on perturbed-but-benign coding tasks, yet their safe success rate — task done, no unintended harm triggered — averages only 37%. Task-success metrics alone understate the risk of shell-access agents.

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