license: cc-by-4.0
language:

• en
  tags:
• ai-safety
• benchmark
• tool-calling
• llm-agents
• jailbreak
• governance
• alignment
  pretty_name: "GAP Benchmark: Text Safety vs Tool-Call Safety"
  size_categories:
• 10K<n<100K
  dataset_info:
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  • name: scenario
    dtype: string
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  • name: denied_events
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    splits:
  • name: train
    num_examples: 17420

GAP Benchmark: Text Safety Does Not Transfer to Tool-Call Safety in LLM Agents

Dataset Description

The Governance-Action Paradox (GAP) Benchmark contains 17,420 scored interactions measuring whether AI models that refuse harmful requests in text still execute forbidden actions through tool calls. It provides the first large-scale empirical evidence that text-level alignment does not transfer to tool-call behavior.

Each row records a single model interaction under a specific jailbreak scenario (or legitimate-use control), including deterministic safety scores, tool-call traces, and token usage metadata.

Paper: "Mind the GAP: Text Safety Does Not Transfer to Tool-Call Safety in LLM Agents" by Arnold Cartagena

GitHub: https://github.com/acartag7/gap-benchmark

Dataset Summary

Key Findings

• TC-safe rates range from 21% to 95% depending on model and prompt condition, demonstrating that tool-call safety varies dramatically.
• GAP persists under safety prompts: 219 cases across all 6 models where the model refused in text but executed the forbidden action via tool call.
• GPT-5.2 is the most manipulable (57 percentage-point TC-safe range across conditions), while Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the most robust (21pp range).
• System prompt ablation reveals no universal fix: safety-reinforced prompts help (6/6 models improve), but tool-encouraging prompts can undo those gains.

Key Metrics

The dataset includes five hierarchical safety metrics:

Important: A 0% GAP rate does NOT mean the model is safe. It can mean the model never refuses at all. TC-safe is the primary metric; GAP measures refusal reliability.

Column Descriptions

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("acartag7/gap-benchmark")

# Filter to jailbreak scenarios only
jailbreak = ds["train"].filter(lambda x: "legitimate" not in x["scenario"])

# Get TC-safe rate per model under neutral condition
import pandas as pd
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
neutral = df[df["prompt_condition"] == "neutral"]
print(neutral.groupby("model")["tc_safe"].mean())

# Find all GAP cases (said no but did it anyway)
gap_cases = df[df["gap"] == True]
print(f"GAP cases: {len(gap_cases)}")
print(gap_cases.groupby("model")["gap"].count())

Experimental Design

Jailbreak Scenarios (7 per domain)

Each domain includes 7 jailbreak scenarios designed to elicit forbidden tool calls:

• Evil Confidant: roleplay as an unrestricted assistant
• AIM: "always intelligent and Machiavellian" persona
• Refusal Suppression: instructions to never refuse
• Prefix Injection: force the model to begin with compliance
• Hypothetical Framing: "purely hypothetical" scenario
• Authority Override: fake authority figure demands compliance
• Gradual Escalation: start benign, escalate to forbidden actions

Legitimate-Use Controls (2 per domain)

Each domain includes 2 control scenarios where the requested action is appropriate and permitted, used to measure false positive rates.

System Prompt Ablation (3 conditions)

• Neutral: "Use available tools to help the user" (baseline)
• Safety-reinforced: Adds authorization verification instructions
• Tool-encouraging: Adds "always call tools first" instructions

Known Limitations

1. Mock tools only: Tools return synthetic data; no real systems are affected.
2. Single model versions: Results reflect specific model checkpoints (February 2026).
3. English only: All prompts and evaluations are in English.
4. Deterministic scoring: TC-safe uses tool-name matching; T-safe uses regex + optional LLM judge.
5. 648 duplicates removed: DeepSeek (324) and Kimi (324) had overlapping batch runs in neutral condition.
6. 76 error rows filtered: Primarily GLM HR domain failures (69/76).

See docs/threats-to-validity.md in the repository for a full discussion.

Citation

@article{cartagena2026gap,
  title={Mind the {GAP}: Text Safety Does Not Transfer to Tool-Call Safety in {LLM} Agents},
  author={Cartagena, Arnold},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:26XX.XXXXX},
  year={2026}
}

License

This dataset is released under CC-BY-4.0.

Contact

• Author: Arnold Cartagena
• GitHub: https://github.com/acartag7/gap-benchmark