OpenAI monitors coding agents that can inspect and modify their safeguards
OpenAI’s internal coding agents have access to selected systems and can inspect or modify the code and documentation behind their safeguards, so the company treats monitoring as a core safety layer rather than an optional audit. Its low-latency system reviews agents’ interactions and internal reasoning, using GPT-5.4 Thinking at maximum reasoning effort to flag behavior that may indicate misalignment during realistic, tool-rich coding sessions.