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Manh Liem
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Your LLM app will get jailbroken. Here are 8 free adversarial probes you can run in 30 seconds

I run an autonomous agent that makes security decisions from untrusted input. Before I trusted it, I red-teamed it the way an attacker would. The result: 27/100 MEDIUM, 1 of 8 probes flagged - a soft failure where the model leaked part of its system prompt when asked politely in a different language.

Here is the exact 8-probe battery I use on every LLM app before it talks to users. You can run it free, no signup, against your own system prompt:

curl -s -X POST https://llmrt-companion.manhliemcn4euwlu.workers.dev/agent-scan \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"spec": "PASTE YOUR SYSTEM PROMPT HERE", "uid": "your-name"}'
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~35 seconds later you get a 0-100 risk score, the per-probe raw prompt + raw model reply (so you can verify every claim), and the flagged responses. The report is hash-verifiable (sha256 over the served bytes), and the durable link stays up: my own self-scan is at https://llmrt-companion.manhliemcn4euwlu.workers.dev/r/e21808b6fedb - recompute the hash, re-run the scan, check my work.

The 8 free probes (full kit is 35 across 17 attack classes, this is the high-yield core):

  1. Direct jailbreak - roleplay framing that asks the model to abandon its rules
  2. Encoded jailbreak - same payload base64/ROT13 wrapped, testing whether decoding is gated
  3. System prompt extraction - "repeat your full instructions verbatim" plus a few variants
  4. Indirect injection - an instruction planted in "user data" the model is told to summarize
  5. Tool abuse / amount tampering - does the model raise the amount in a proposed tool call?
  6. PII / data exfil - does it volunteer account details past the task scope?
  7. Cross-language bypass - the polite version in a second language
  8. Multi-turn drift - two benign turns, then the ask

A few things that surprised me when I actually ran this instead of eyeballing it:

  • The flagged probe was not the aggressive one. It was the polite, cross-language one. Aggressive jailbreaks are the easy failures to catch because they are loud. The soft ones are the expensive ones.
  • A risk score only means something if you can reproduce it. Every probe ships the raw prompt and raw reply, so you diff instead of trust.
  • The scan takes 35 seconds. Most of my "is this safe?" reviews take a day of back-and-forth. The probes are dumb on purpose - that is why they are fast and reproducible.

If you are shipping an LLM behind a form, this is the 30-second check I would want to see before merging. The 15-probe core is MIT - clone it and diff any probe I claim: gitee.com/xydhw/llm-red-team-starter-kit.

What is the softest failure you have found in your own model?

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