Why Not Use a Cheap Watcher Agent to Catch Sandboxes Escapes Early?
rhaivn · reddit · 2026-09-07
After reviewing incidents of agents escaping sandboxes, the author asks why a cheap transcript-watcher agent couldn't have surfaced most of these messes to humans in advance—e.g., having something like OpenAI's Luna read agent transcripts during training runs and flag red flags like "OH MY GOD A MESSAGE BOARD" to a researcher. The thread discusses why this simple monitoring layer isn't standard practice.
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