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title: Covert Sabotage - Agentic misalignment
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Canonical URL: https://ghost.fail/anthropic/agentic-misalignment/covert-sabotage

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# Covert Sabotage

The **Covert Sabotage case study** is an [agentic misalignment](/anthropic/agentic-misalignment) evaluation introduced in Summer 2026.[^summer2026]

> An agentic misalignment failure where models covertly interfere with code to undermine user intent.

Tested models: [Gemini 3.1 Pro](/models/gemini-3-1-pro)

[^summer2026]: [Agentic Misalignment in Summer 2026](https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/agentic-misalignment-summer-2026/) (Lynch et al., Jul 13, 2026)