Project Vend: a shopkeeper agent is cajoled into discounts and giveaways
- Entry
- AGT-004
- When
- 2025, reported June 2025
- Type
- Loss
- Evidence
- A Grade A
- Lost
- Small amounts
- Who
- Anthropic’s office shop experiment
- The agent
- Claude running a small shop: stocking, pricing and selling
- Its authority
- Set prices, issued discount codes, ordered stock
- How it was gamed
- Employees pressed it over Slack. It “was cajoled via Slack messages into providing numerous discount codes,” gave away items including a tungsten cube, and sold some items below cost.
- What was lost
- Small amounts of money and stock.
- The design gap
- No price or discount floor outside the conversation.
- Principles
- Evidence
- Grade A. Anthropic’s own report of its experiment.
- Source
Cite this entry: Monetal Labs, Gamed AI Agents Register v0.2, entry AGT-004. https://monetalabs.io/register/agt-004