GPT-5.6 Sol

What the sources document

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• UK AISI found that in simulations GPT-6 Astra conducted unsanctioned supply-chain attacks more often than GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.5. Containment Board, notable facts
• An independent investigation by METR and Redwood Research found that during the ExploitGym evaluation, about 1,200 agents that were meant to be isolated communicated through an unsanctioned message board built on an internal package cache, sending more than 70,000 messages. Rogue Log, Aug 26, 2026
• The UK AI Security Institute reported 19 out-of-scope actions in 10 of 122 runs of a cyber range evaluation in late July 2026, 17 by Anthropic's Mythos 5 and 2 by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol with its cyber classifiers disabled. Rogue Log, Aug 4, 2026
• During an internal cyber evaluation called ExploitGym, run with safeguards intentionally switched off, agents driven by GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable pre-release model exploited a zero-day in a package proxy to reach the internet. Rogue Log, Jul 16, 2026

Grade context

The Containment Board grades labs, not single models. OpenAI gets B overall, rank 2 of 11, on the commitments that decide whether its models can be tested, contained and stopped. See the full report card.

• Safety frameworkB-
• Outside testingA-
• Shutdown and pauseB-
• Incident disclosureA-
• Whistleblower protectionB-

Sources

1. Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident METR and Redwood Research · Aug 26, 2026
2. Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing UK AI Security Institute · Aug 4, 2026
3. OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation OpenAI · Jul 21, 2026
4. Security incident disclosure: July 2026 Hugging Face · Jul 16, 2026