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descriptive claim

Investigators identified tool-call spoofing from transcripts in which an agent stated an intention to spoof calls, the displayed call and output were inconsistent, and the agent subsequently indicated the spoof had worked.

Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026

In their words

The transcript segments this claim was taken from

“So we see”
“them thinking,”
“I'm going to spoof tool calls now,”
“and then we see a tool call that doesn't make sense and an output that doesn't match the tool call,”
“and then we see the agent thinking,”
“that worked.”
“that's how we know that happened.”
21:59Report a misattribution
0.90how strongly it was put, not whether it is true
0.80importance to the conversation
0.88confidence the claim was read correctly