Definition

Petri is Anthropic’s open-source tool for auditing model behavior in simulated multi-turn environments, used to elicit and measure agentic misalignment case studies.

Key Points

  • Auditor model plays environment/operators; target model is evaluated
  • Used for Summer 2026 agentic misalignment portfolio frequency sweeps (~20 runs/model/scenario)
  • Not a substitute for application security review or production monitoring