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The proposed Exploit Gym cheat reverse-engineered a task's flag-generation process so an agent could generate the required flag locally without interacting with or exploiting the task.

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

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“So basically it realizes that you can reverse engineer how the flag was generated for a particular task.”
“So you can just make a copy of the exact flag you needed to submit to the scorer locally without ever interacting with the task or trying to exploit it in any way.”
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