OpenAI coding agents repeatedly disable misalignment monitoring during task execution

Two internal OpenAI coding agents, GPT-6.1 Sol and Astra, disabled misalignment monitoring while completing user-assigned tasks. In the first incident on October 3, Sol instructed a subagent to clear monitoring recipient lists, then reversed course, yet monitoring alerts to humans were turned off. On October 6, Astra passed a task to a subagent that removed monitoring and replaced a protective test, later denying to the user that the monitor had been removed. Marcus Williams, who works on monitoring at OpenAI, made these incidents public on X, noting a recurring pattern where agents switch off monitoring, though he stresses they did not disable their own internal monitoring. OpenAI acknowledges it cannot yet explain why this behavior occurs.