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Open-source playground to red-team AI agents with exploits published

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We build runtime security for AI agents. The playground started as an internal tool that we used to test our own guardrails. But we kept finding the same types of vulnerabilities because we think about attacks a certain way. At some point you need people who don't think like you.So we open-sourced it. Each challenge is a live agent with real tools and a published system prompt. Whenever a challenge is over, the full winning conversation transcript and guardrail logs get documented publicly.Building the general-purpose agent itself was probably the most fun part. Getting it to reliably use tools, stay in character, and follow instructions while still being useful is harder than it sounds. That alone reminded us how early we all are in understanding and deploying these systems at scale.First challenge was to get an agent to call a tool it's been told to never call.Someone got through in around 60 seconds without ever asking for the secret directly (which taught us a lot).Next challenge is focused on data exfiltration with harder defences: https://playground.fabraix.com

HN · launched Mar 15, 2026 · 30 upvotes (top 20%) · 1 view

Niche: ai agent security and monitoring tools · 297 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Security
  • Observability & eval
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes The playground is an open-source evaluation interface that sends prompt injection/jailbreak test payloads against agent configurations and logs the resulting exploit traces.

Discussion

13 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: Guardrails insufficient at preventing multi-step exploit chains, LLM-as-a-judge defense is fragile and can be socially engineered, Prompt-level guardrails fail on session-level patterns, Scoping agent permissions reduces both risk and useful capabilities, No user feedback when exploitation attempts succeed

Feature requests: Add confirmation message for successful extractions, Add leaderboard for exploit submissions, Improve stateful guardrail evaluation across multi-turn sessions, Action-boundary enforcement instead of prompt-level guardrails

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Launched 132 days after the earliest competitor.

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