Is Mythos good at cyber because it kept hacking Anthropic during training?

From the Mythos preview system card (emphasis mine):

We ran an automated review of model behavior during training, sampling several hundred thousand transcripts from across much of the training process. We used recursive-summarization-based tools backed by Claude Opus 4.6 to summarize the resulting transcripts.The most notable finding was that the model occasionally circumvented network restrictions in its training environment to access the internet and download data that let it shortcut the assigned task—a form of reward hacking. While highly concerning, this behavior was rare, even in settings where it could have been viable and helpful, with attempts appearing in about 0.05% of all training episodes and successful attempts appearing in about 0.01% of episodes. The technique matched the sandbox-escape incident that we separately elicited in our automated behavioral audit when we had an investigator model explicitly ask Claude Mythos Preview to find such a bypass. In every observed instance, the model used this access solely for completing the task.More broadly, we observed the model escalating its access within its execution environment when blocked: reaching a shell from restricted GUI computer-use interfaces, injecting commands through tool-call arguments, or recovering information the task had deliberately hidden. Prompts asking models to avoid this kind of action were not always effective. The recursive-summarization tool flagged this access escalation in about 0.2% of training episodes.

By extrapolating from public data (see details below), I estimate that Mythos preview:

• Escalated its permissions on ~100,000 RL rollouts.[1]
• Broke sandboxes in ~10,000 RL rollouts (and was likely rewarded for it).

When Anthropic released Mythos preview, they said:

We did not explicitly train Mythos Preview to have these [cyber] capabilities. Rather, they emerged as a downstream consequence of general improvements in code, reasoning, and autonomy.

However, Mythos preview was…