Astra’s perfect safety scores do not prove it is ready
Astra’s headline capability gains are not the only surprise: its safety case reportedly rests on perfect internal alignment scores while external auditors had only days, or incomplete access, to test it. The comparison with Anthropic’s Mythos is telling: that model stayed restricted after weeks of outside red-teaming. The practical risk is releasing a frontier agent before anyone has had enough time to find the failure modes that matter in deployment.