VERA-MH opens a 100-persona safety test

Spring Health expanded its open-source VERA-MH mental-health benchmark with a harm-from-others rubric scored across five areas and 100 realistic personas, then opened it for 60 days of public comment. The company’s announcement names risk detection, confirmation, human-care guidance, supportive conversation, and AI boundaries; the public VERA-MH repository carries rubric and persona files. Teams shipping mental-health assistants should file this as a pre-launch test surface, not a marketing badge: AISI’s 8.2% scope-crossing agent evaluation shows why evaluation boundaries need production-grade controls.