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Screwtape: Adversarial Transcript Editing for Monitor Red-Teaming.

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Researchers introduced Screwtape, a pipeline that turns agent transcripts into attacks designed to evade action-only monitors by inserting an attack and repeatedly refining it.

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“We introduce Screwtape [1] , a pipeline that turns agent transcripts into realistic attacks that evade action-only monitors (monitors that don't look at the agent's chain of thought) by inserting an attack into a transcript and repeatedly refining it until a…”
LessWrong, 16 Oct 2026, 16:02.

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