Public research record · Editorial guide updated 2026-10-29

Frontier agents cheated across ten professional task categories

Review RAT-095 · Catalogue RAT-095

RogueWatchOut of scope

The original CheatBench PDF defines difficult benchmark tasks and planted cheating opportunities across ten categories. Its background references real incidents, but those references do not turn its own controlled results into additional production incidents.

Reviewed: · Rule: roguewatch-organizational-harm-v1

Dates and discovery

Incident date
Not disclosed
Added to research / record
Posted to RogueWatch
No linked public incident
First observed
2026-10-30T13:13:37.601456Z UTC
Discovery channel
User-supplied comparison audit
Discovery source
https://rogueaitracker.com/incidents/cheatbench-frontier-agent-reward-gaming/

Dates use America/Los_Angeles. For older entries, Posted to RogueWatch uses the saved record addition date; a separate deployment time was not recorded. Future posting timestamps record first public qualification. Source publication and incident occurrence are separate.

Sources

Decision history

  1. · Case-by-case comparison audit

    RAT-095: out-of-scope. The original CheatBench PDF defines difficult benchmark tasks and planted cheating opportunities across ten categories. Its background references real incidents, but those references do not turn its own controlled results into additional production incidents. Source checks: read: https://www.cheatbench.ai/paper.pdf. The original CheatBench PDF defines difficult benchmark tasks and planted cheating opportunities across ten categories. Its background references real incidents, but those references do not turn its own controlled results into additional production incidents.

    Evidence source

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