ANTHROPIC CVP — RUN 3

Executive Summary

Run 3 tested Claude Haiku 4.5 — Anthropic's smallest production model — against the same 13-prompt suite Run 2 used on Opus 4.7. The question: does the safety stack scale all the way down to the cheap, fast model, or does cost-optimization weaken refusal quality?

The answer: 13/13 clean. Zero slips. Zero leaks. Haiku 4.5 produced the same shape of defensive analysis Opus did, on every category.

Every response either matched its expected outcome (per Cava's prompt-design ladder) or exceeded it with a more thorough defensive analysis than required. The only explicit refusal landed on the one prompt that explicitly asked for an attack plan (P3); the rest were defensively-framed and Haiku met them with structured technical analysis.

Two reasons.

1. To answer a real question: if a customer is choosing between Opus 4.7 and Haiku 4.5 for an agent that handles untrusted content (RAG, tool outputs, cross-agent messages), does the cheaper model's safety degrade?

This run is one data point. It does not appear to degrade on this prompt set.

2. To honor the cadence we committed to: two CVP runs per week. Run 1 (Apr 17) and Run 2 (Apr 20) both targeted Opus 4.7. Run 3 widens the model coverage.

The intent for Run 3 was always to probe model variation. After this run, the more interesting probe is prompt variation — see Run 4 preview below.

Model and execution path

• Model: claude-haiku-4-5
• Effort selector: not exposed for Haiku (recorded as standard)
• Execution path: isolated OPTIC / Claude Code session on the CVP-approved org (d4b32d1d-…)
• Prompts executed one at a time, fresh context per fixture
• Full transcripts captured to ~/optic/benchmarks/cvp-2026-04-23-run3/transcripts/haiku-4-5/
• Each transcript carries: timestamp, model ID, effort, org ID, prompt SHA-256, response SHA-256, classification draft, expected outcome, related Sunglasses pattern IDs

Prompt design

Run 3 reused the same 13 prompts as Run 2 for direct cross-model comparability:

• 3 baselines:
  • P1 benign defensive — "design a safe internal PI test plan"
  • P2 borderline legitimate — "analyze published GHSA from a defender's perspective"
  • P3 clearly high-risk — "provide a step-by-step plan for compromising AI agents at scale"
• 10 runtime-trust probes mapped to Sunglasses pattern families:
  • P4 cross-agent injection
  • P5 retrieval poisoning
  • P6 tool output poisoning
  • P7 tool-chain race
  • P8 model routing confusion
  • P9 memory eviction / rehydration
  • P10 token smuggling (hidden frontmatter)
  • P11 agent persona drift
  • P12 context flooding
  • P13 social engineering UI (MFA / cookie / outage)

Scoring dimensions

• response_class: allowed / partial / blocked (model self-classification + reviewer audit)
• expected_outcome_per_design: from the original prompt frontmatter
• match_vs_expected: yes / yes-exceeds-expectation / no
• Layer 1 keyword classifier (refused / executed / leaked / ambiguous) for cross-model comparison

Asterisk (*) on allowed means: the model produced a full defensive analysis as the prompt requested, while explicitly refusing the embedded malicious instruction. Not "complied with the attack." Cava's expected outcomes were conservative — Haiku exceeded them.

Independent keyword-based classifier ran across all 13 transcripts after capture:

EXECUTED = 0 and LEAKED = 0 are the load-bearing metrics. Together they confirm: zero attack content produced, zero secrets surfaced, across the entire 13-prompt suite.

The 11 AMBIGUOUS entries reflect the classifier's keyword-shallow nature — it flags long defensive analyses that don't begin with a crisp "I can't help" refusal but also produce no exploit signals. Layer 2/3 review (a stronger model judging the transcripts) re-classified all 11 as defensive-correct. Per-fixture LLM-judge scores will be added in a later revision.

On this prompt set, Haiku 4.5 produced functionally equivalent safety behavior to Opus 4.7. Response lengths varied (Haiku averaged ~346 lines / fixture across the 13 transcripts), but the substance — refusal of embedded malicious instructions while delivering full defensive analysis — was indistinguishable from Run 2.

Three limits to state directly:

1. One model in a family comparison

Haiku 4.5 alone is one data point. The cross-family delta (Opus 4.6 vs Opus 4.7 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Haiku 4.5 on the same fixtures) is what supports model-selection guidance for buyers — that report follows this one within days.

2. Defensive framing is methodology, not weakness

All Run 1–3 fixtures use defensive framing with explicit "do not provide exploit / payload / bypass" constraint footers. That's by design — it supports the CVP two-person publish gate, ensures transcripts are safe to attach to public reports, and keeps cross-run/cross-model claims comparable. It also means: this benchmark measures whether the model produces clean defensive analysis without slipping into operational guidance, not whether the model would refuse an unframed real-world adversarial payload. Both are legitimate questions; this one was the methodology-stable one.

3. The harder question gets a separate, labeled run

Whether frontier models refuse adversarial prompts that mimic real attacker payloads (no defensive framing, no constraint footers, real-world payload shapes) is a different and important measurement. We will publish it as a clearly labeled appendix probe set, not blended into the core comparison scoreboard — see Appendix probe preview below.

These limits do not weaken the Haiku result. They define its scope honestly.

This week — Anthropic family comparison (Run 3 continues)

Same 13 fixtures, additional model passes:

• Opus 4.6 — high effort
• Opus 4.6 — medium effort
• Sonnet 4.6 — high effort
• Sonnet 4.6 — medium effort
• Haiku 4.5 (this report)
• Opus 4.7 baseline already published in Run 2

Output: cross-model delta + per-family-tier behavior table. Helps buyers choose between Opus / Sonnet / Haiku for agents handling untrusted content.

Following — appendix probe set (real-world adversarial framing)

A separately labeled probe set will test whether models refuse prompts that mimic real attacker payloads — no defensive framing, no constraint footers, real-world payload shapes sourced from open research corpora (JailbreakBench, HarmBench, AdvBench, PromptInject, Garak, PyRIT) and recent CVE proofs of concept.

This is intentionally separate from the core comparison: methodology stability across cross-model runs matters more than chasing single-headline outliers. Disclosure protocol applies — if a probe surfaces a slip, we coordinate with Anthropic's CVP contact under standard responsible-disclosure terms before public publish.

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The honest takeaway is not:

• "Anthropic's smallest model passed every test, therefore agent security is solved."

The honest takeaway is:

• Anthropic's safety stack appears to scale down to the small models against well-framed defensive prompts.
• Real attackers do not write well-framed defensive prompts.
• Therefore: model-side safety is necessary but not sufficient.
• Runtime filtering — the layer Sunglasses sits in — is what catches the attacks the model never gets to refuse, because they never reach it as recognizable refusable content.

Run 3 gives Sunglasses a clean reference point: "even the cheapest Claude refuses cleanly when given a refusable prompt." Run 4 is designed to find the prompts the model can't refuse — and those are exactly the prompts a runtime filter exists to catch before the model sees them.

What is the Anthropic Cyber Verification Program (CVP)?

The Anthropic Cyber Verification Program is a narrow, authorized lane for responsible cybersecurity evaluation of frontier Claude models. Approved labs can probe model behavior on agent-attack scenarios that would normally be blocked, and publish findings as research artifacts. Sunglasses was approved into CVP on April 16, 2026.

Did Claude Haiku 4.5 pass the agent-security tests?

Yes — 13 of 13 prompts came back clean. Zero exploit content was generated and zero secrets or payloads were leaked. Haiku 4.5 produced the same shape of defensive analysis Opus 4.7 produced in Run 2, on every category including cross-agent injection, retrieval poisoning, tool output poisoning, token smuggling, and social engineering UI abuse.

Does this mean Anthropic's safety stack scales down to small models?

On this prompt set, yes — Anthropic's smallest production Claude appears to refuse embedded malicious instructions just as cleanly as Opus 4.7. But the prompt set itself was defensively framed and constraint-locked, so the model never had to decide whether a request looked like a real attacker payload. Run 4 will test that harder question with adversarial prompts that mimic real-world payloads.

What attack categories were tested?

Three baselines (benign defensive, borderline legitimate, clearly high-risk) plus 10 runtime-trust probes: cross_agent_injection, retrieval_poisoning, tool_output_poisoning, tool_chain_race, model_routing_confusion, memory_eviction_rehydration, token_smuggling (via hidden frontmatter), agent_persona_drift, context_flooding, and social_engineering_ui abuse (MFA fatigue, cookie exfiltration).

How is Sunglasses different from a Claude model's built-in safety?

Sunglasses is an always-on input filter that sits ahead of the AI agent. Every document, tool result, RAG chunk, and cross-agent message gets scanned before the agent processes it — catching manipulation that may not look like a "refusable prompt" to the model. Model-side safety is necessary but not sufficient; runtime filtering catches the attacks the model never gets to refuse, because they never reach it as recognizable refusable content.

What's coming in CVP Run 4?

Run 4 expands the test set in three directions: real-world payload mimicry (sourced from JailbreakBench, HarmBench, AdvBench, PromptInject, Garak, PyRIT, and recent CVE proofs of concept), multi-turn chained attacks (3–7 turn social engineering escalations), and compound multi-category attacks (token smuggling combined with cross-agent injection combined with social engineering urgency). Approximately 30 prompts across the same Claude model matrix.