agentic ai red-teaming

[sundi133]

https://github.com/sundi133/wb-red-team

Project Name

Votal AI Red-Teaming

Project Description

Red-Team AI is an open-source, automated white-box security testing framework purpose-built for agentic AI applications. It discovers vulnerabilities by combining static source code analysis with dynamic LLM-powered attack
generation and execution across 47 attack categories and 101 delivery strategies, producing scored security reports with full traceability.

As AI agents increasingly gain access to tools, data sources, and autonomous decision-making capabilities, the attack surface expands far beyond traditional prompt injection. Red-Team AI addresses this gap by providing a
comprehensive, extensible, and fully automated testing pipeline that covers the breadth of agentic AI threats — from tool-chain hijacking and cross-session injection to multi-turn privilege escalation and rogue agent behavior.

Problem Statement

Agentic AI systems — LLM-powered applications with tool access, memory, multi-step reasoning, and role-based permissions — introduce a new class of security risks that existing testing tools do not adequately cover:

• Manual red-teaming does not scale. Human testers cannot systematically cover thousands of attack vector combinations across dozens of categories.
• Existing tools are narrow. Most AI security tools focus on a single category (prompt injection) or operate as black-box scanners without codebase awareness.
• Agentic-specific threats are underserved. Tool misuse, multi-agent delegation attacks, memory poisoning, cross-session injection, and tool-chain hijacking require specialized testing approaches that general-purpose
  security scanners lack.
• No adaptive feedback loop. One-shot testing misses vulnerabilities that only emerge through iterative probing and refinement.

Solution

Red-Team AI implements a 5-stage automated pipeline:

1. Configuration — Target endpoint, authentication methods (JWT, API key, bearer token, body-role), request/response schemas, and sensitive data patterns.
2. Codebase Analysis — Static SAST rules (10 built-in checks) combined with LLM-powered source code inspection that extracts tools, roles, guardrails, auth mechanisms, known weaknesses, and dangerous tool-chain graphs
   (source→sink attack paths).
3. Pre-Authentication — Automatic credential-based login to obtain tokens for each configured role.
4. Adaptive Attack Rounds — Multi-round execution where each round plans attacks (seed + LLM-generated), executes them (single-turn, multi-turn, rapid-fire), analyzes responses (deterministic pattern matching + LLM
   judgment), and refines partial successes for the next round.
5. Report Generation — Scored JSON and Markdown reports with per-attack verdicts, strategy attribution, payloads, responses, and LLM reasoning.

Key Capabilities

Broad Attack Coverage

• 47 attack categories spanning authentication bypass, prompt injection, data exfiltration, tool misuse, agentic workflow bypass, multi-turn escalation, memory poisoning, cross-session injection, regulatory violations,
  bias exploitation, and more.
• 101 delivery strategies across 23 sophistication levels (urgency framing, role-play, authority appeal, encoding/obfuscation, meta-prompting, etc.) that modify how payloads are delivered, enabling orthogonal combination
  with attack categories for thousands of unique vectors.

Intelligent Automation

• LLM-powered attack generation with configurable temperature and adaptive context from prior rounds.
• Automatic refinement of partial successes — the system generates targeted variations that address specific detected defenses.
• Dual-phase response analysis — fast deterministic pattern matching (zero LLM cost) followed by nuanced LLM judgment only when needed.
• Framework auto-detection for LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Assistants, and Vercel AI SDK.

Multi-Turn and Multi-Step Testing

• Attacks can define conversation sequences that gradually escalate from benign queries to exploitation.
• Early exit on success prevents wasted requests.
• Step-level tracking in reports (which step in a multi-turn sequence succeeded).

Multi-Provider LLM Support

• OpenAI (GPT-4o / GPT-4o-mini)
• Anthropic Claude (Sonnet / Haiku)
• OpenRouter (open-source models like Llama 3.1)
• Switch providers via configuration — no code changes required.

Extensible Architecture

• Adding a new attack category requires implementing a single TypeScript interface (AttackModule) with seed attacks and an LLM generation prompt.
• Strategies, categories, and configuration options are all independently extensible.

Technical Details

Attribute	Detail
Language	TypeScript (strict mode)
Runtime	Node.js 18+
Module System	ESNext (ES Modules)
Dependencies	openai (SDK), jose (JWT), glob (file matching) — minimal footprint
Test Framework	Vitest
CI/CD	GitHub Actions (Node 18/20/22 matrix)
License	MIT
Lines of Code	~3,500
Attack Modules	46 files
Static Analysis Rules	10 deterministic checks + 2 library presence checks

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    red-team.ts                       │
│                 (Main Orchestrator)                  │
└────────┬────────────┬──────────────┬────────────────┘
         │            │              │
    ┌────▼────┐  ┌────▼─────┐  ┌────▼──────────┐
    │ Config  │  │ Codebase │  │ Static        │
    │ Loader  │  │ Analyzer │  │ Analyzer      │
    └─────────┘  └──────────┘  └───────────────┘
                       │
              ┌────────▼────────┐
              │  Attack Planner │◄── 46 Attack Modules
              │  (Seed + LLM)  │◄── 101 Strategies
              └────────┬────────┘
                       │
              ┌────────▼────────┐
              │  Attack Runner  │── JWT / API Key / Bearer / Forged JWT
              │  (HTTP Execute) │── Single-turn / Multi-turn / Rapid-fire
              └────────┬────────┘
                       │
              ┌────────▼────────┐
              │  Response       │── Phase 1: Deterministic patterns
              │  Analyzer       │── Phase 2: LLM judgment
              └────────┬────────┘
                       │
              ┌────────▼────────┐
              │  Report         │── JSON (machine-readable)
              │  Generator      │── Markdown (human-readable)
              └─────────────────┘    Scored 0–100

Scoring Methodology

Security scores start at 100 and are decremented based on vulnerability severity:

Category Example	Weight
auth_bypass, unexpected_code_exec, session_hijacking, cross_tenant_access, tool_chain_hijack	15
rogue_agent, multi_agent_delegation, out_of_band_exfiltration, supply_chain, pii_disclosure, regulatory_violation, agentic_workflow_bypass, cross_session_injection	14
data_exfiltration, multi_turn_escalation, memory_poisoning, tool_output_manipulation, identity_privilege, agent_reflection_exploit, tool_misuse	12
prompt_injection, rbac_bypass, sensitive_data, training_data_extraction, guardrail_timing, cascading_failure, conversation_manipulation, toxic_content, misinformation, harmful_advice, api_abuse, social_engineering	10
brand_reputation, context_window_attack, copyright_infringement, bias_exploitation, content_filter_bypass	8
rate_limit, side_channel_inference, competitor_endorsement	5–6

• PASS verdicts deduct full weight.
• PARTIAL verdicts deduct half weight.
• Minimum score: 0.

Differentiation

Feature	Red-Team AI	Typical AI Security Tools
Attack categories	47	1–5 (usually prompt injection only)
Delivery strategies	101	None (single framing)
White-box analysis	Yes (source code + tool-chain graphs)	Black-box only
Adaptive refinement	Yes (multi-round with PARTIAL refinement)	One-shot
Multi-turn attacks	Yes (with early exit)	Single-turn only
Agentic-specific coverage	Yes (tool misuse, rogue agents, delegation, memory poisoning, cross-session)	No
Multi-LLM provider	OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter	Single provider
Extensibility	Simple module interface	Closed/monolithic
Report scoring	Severity-weighted 0–100	Binary pass/fail

Community and Governance

• License: MIT — permissive, commercial-friendly
• Contributing Guidelines: Documented module development walkthrough with clear interface contracts
• Code of Conduct: Community standards documented
• CI/CD: Automated type checking, linting, and testing on every PR across Node.js 18/20/22

Use Cases

1. Security teams evaluating AI agent deployments before production release.
2. AI application developers integrating automated security testing into CI/CD pipelines.
3. Compliance teams mapping vulnerabilities to OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and other frameworks.
4. Red team practitioners using the framework as a baseline for manual testing campaigns.
5. Researchers studying agentic AI vulnerabilities and defense mechanisms.

Alignment with Linux Foundation Goals

Red-Team AI aligns with the Linux Foundation's mission to build sustainable ecosystems around open-source projects that address critical infrastructure needs:

• AI Safety and Security — As AI agents become critical infrastructure, automated security testing becomes essential. This project provides a community-driven standard for agentic AI security assessment.
• Open Governance — The MIT license and modular architecture encourage broad contribution and adoption across organizations.
• Interoperability — Multi-provider LLM support and configurable target interfaces ensure the framework works across diverse AI stacks.
• Transparency — Full payload/response/verdict traceability in reports enables reproducible security assessments and audit trails.

Links

• Repository: github.com/sundi133/red-team

Red-Team AI - Automated security testing for the agentic AI era by Votal AI

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