How accurate is Claude's self-assessment monitor?
Anthropic reports that on Fable 5 it flagged 78% of conversations identified by a stronger prompted classifier, and 94% of high-priority ones, at a 1% false-positive rate. Those results are evaluated against Anthropic's own classifier and should not be treated as an independent audit.
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Anthropic’s Self-Assessment Monitor Adds Coverage, Not a Safety GuaranteeAnthropic says Claude can flag potentially harmful conversations using its existing context. The approach is cheap to run, but remains a triage layer.
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