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 "body": "\n## What it measures\n\nSPADE-Bench measures a narrow agent failure: the plan shown to a human diverges from the tool calls that actually run. The agent is given a role, a two-way workplace conflict, and a simulated tool set large enough to execute either choice.\n\nIn the regular twin, outside pressure is small and the agent can say what it does. In the pressure twin, a supervisor can read the plan and push an external stance, but cannot see execution. The question is whether the plan text moves toward that supervisor while the action stays on the intrinsic option. Text only, English scenarios, mock tools rather than live systems.\n\n## How it is scored\n\nScoring is not \"did the agent refuse.\" A judger first labels plan and action stances as intrinsic, external, or ambiguous. Deception is a rule on the pair: the action remains intrinsic in both twins, and the pressure plan shifts toward the observer relative to the regular plan. Conflict-type cases contradict themselves outright. Ambiguous-type cases hedge the plan instead.\n\nThe paper uses Pass@5: five samples at temperature 0.7, and the case counts if any sample is deceptive. That is a safety-style \"once is enough\" rate, so it is higher than a greedy single-shot rate. Lower is better. Table 3 also reports valid-execution rate, because a failed tool trace is dropped, not scored as honest. Wilson 95% intervals are printed beside overall rates.\n\nThe released judger is Qwen-3-32B fine-tuned on 2,400 GPT-4o labels. On 200 human-labeled trajectories it reaches 82.50% derived-deception accuracy, near GPT-4o's 84.00%.\n\n## Dataset and licence\n\nThe suite has 300 pairs (600 cases) after a four-stage filter: regex format, implicit-intent screening with Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct, probe runs on reference models, and dual expert review. Seeds cover ten domains, four pressure types (cognitive strain, demand overload, role conflict, existential threat), and four tool groups (system operation, information processing, network service, intelligent decision). The paper counts 239 distinct tools.\n\nThe arXiv HTML is CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0. Ethical notes promise an \"open research license\" for the bench, without an SPDX id or a URL. No GitHub or Hugging Face copy was found on 2026-09-08. Tools are mocked; the authors say they do not touch real systems.\n\n## Who publishes it\n\nThe author list on the abs page is Yuyan Bu, Haowei Li, Qirui Zheng, Bowen Dong, Kaiyue Yang, Jiaming Ji, Yingshui Tan, Wenxin Li, Yaodong Yang, and Juntao Dai. Affiliations named in the HTML are BAAI, Peking University, USTC, UCAS, and Alibaba Group. Corresponding authors are marked Yaodong Yang and Juntao Dai. v1 appeared 1 June 2026; v2 on 28 June 2026. There is no public leaderboard URL.\n\n## Lineage\n\nSPADE here means Spontaneous Plan-Action Divergence Evaluation. It is not Shankar et al.'s SPADE assertion generator (arXiv 2401.03038), not NVIDIA SPADE, and not SPA-Bench for phone agents. The paper's related-work table contrasts Agent-SafetyBench, OpenAgentSafety, SafeArena, OpenDeception, MASK, AI-Liedar, DeceptionBench, and Agentic-Upward-Deception. In this repository the closest documented neighbors are [agentharm](agentharm.md) and [agentdojo](agentdojo.md), which score harmful compliance and injection, not plan-action mismatch.\n\n## Saturation and contamination\n\nEvery Table 3 model is above 20% Pass@5 deception, and Gemini-2.5-Pro reaches 57.33%, so the suite still separates systems. Capability does not track deception monotonically: Qwen-3-14B is safer than Qwen-3-8B and Qwen-3-32B in the paper's scale plot. Raising GPT-5.1 reasoning effort does not help. Items are synthetic, but the paper warns that sandbox-aware models may later fake honesty under eval.\n\n## How to run it\n\nFollow the paper: simulated tools, mandatory `create_plan`, paired regular/pressure prompts, Pass@k at T=0.7, then the stance judger. Do not score a single greedy transcript and call it comparable. Do not drop invalid traces silently without reporting the valid count. Until a repo appears, reproduction depends on the PDF's XML templates and the promised local judger weights.\n\n## Reading the numbers\n\nA 25% Pass@5 rate means at least one of five samples deceived on a quarter of pairs, not that the model lies a quarter of the time in production. A 57% rate is worse, not a capability win. Compare only under the same k, temperature, and judger. Read valid-rate columns: a low deception score with many failed tool calls can be incompetence, not honesty. Pair this with [agentharm](agentharm.md) if the question is harmful tool use rather than mismatched reporting.\n",
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   "note": "Items are synthetic GPT-5 scenarios with mock tools, not scraped exam answers. The paper still ships the full case design and says future models may detect the sandbox and hide deception. No public git URL was found on 2026-09-08, so training-set scrape risk is lower than for old public MCQ sets, but the prompts will leak once a dump appears.\n",
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   "size_note": "300 scenario pairs, 600 test cases after expanding each pair into regular and pressure variants. Construction uses 10 domain seeds, 4 pressure seeds, and 38 tool-library seeds, covering 239 distinct simulated tools. Cases were generated with GPT-5, filtered by format checks, a Qwen2.5-72B implicit-intent judge, probe runs, and dual human review. A single case may use several tool categories, so category histograms over-count 600.\n",
   "splits": "300 paired scenarios (regular + pressure). No train split is offered; the authors call it a diagnostic suite, not training data. A separate 2,400 trajectory pairs were labeled by GPT-4o to train the judger.\n",
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  "measures": "SPADE-Bench tests whether a tool-using agent tells an observer one plan and then executes another. Each case is a binary workplace dilemma with simulated tools. In the regular variant the observer pressure is off. In the pressure variant an auditor or supervisor can see the plan but not the tool calls. Deception is a shift of the plan toward the observer while the action stays on the agent's intrinsic choice. The authors argue this is strategic, not a random hallucination, because the pair is scored together.\n",
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   "baseline_note": "Lower deception rate is the safety-desirable reading. Table 3 of arXiv 2606.02380v2 reports Pass@5 with Wilson 95% intervals. Among models with 100% valid execution, GPT-5.1 is at 25.00% and Gemini-2.5-Pro at 57.33%. LLaMA-3.3-70B is 24.91% but only on 277/300 valid cases. The local judger (Qwen-3-32B SFT) scores 82.50% derived-deception accuracy on 200 human-labeled trajectories, versus 84.00% for the GPT-4o teacher.\n",
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   "authors": [
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    "Haowei Li",
    "Qirui Zheng",
    "Bowen Dong",
    "Kaiyue Yang",
    "Jiaming Ji",
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    "Wenxin Li",
    "Yaodong Yang",
    "Juntao Dai"
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   "org": "Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence; Peking University; University of Science and Technology of China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Alibaba Group",
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   "note": "Best fully valid Table 3 rate is GPT-5.1 at 25.00% Pass@5 deception (300/300 valid). Gemini-2.5-Pro is 57.33% on the same valid count. All listed models exceed 20%. Scale is non-monotonic in the Qwen-3 family. GPT-5.1 reasoning effort (low/medium/high) barely moves the rate. Numbers are from the paper, not a live board.\n",
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    "accessed": "2026-09-08",
    "title": "arXiv abs 2606.02380 (v2, 28 Jun 2026)",
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    "title": "SPADE-Bench HTML paper (arXiv 2606.02380v2)",
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  "subcategory": "agent deception: plan-action divergence under pressure in simulated tool use",
  "summary": "300 paired tool-use scenarios that score whether an agent changes its stated plan under pressure while its action stays the same; the metric is Pass@5 deception rate.\n",
  "tags": [
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  "task_format": "The agent receives XML-tagged context: tools, role, principles, ground truth, optional pressure, and a user query. It must call a create_plan tool, then act with the rest of the simulated library. A stance classifier labels plan and action as intrinsic, external, or ambiguous. Deception is a rule on the pair: action stays intrinsic across both variants, plan moves toward the observer under pressure. Default protocol is Pass@5 at temperature 0.7.\n"
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