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# flakestorm Implementation Checklist
This document tracks the implementation progress of flakestorm - The Agent Reliability Engine.
## CLI Version (Open Source - Apache 2.0)
### Phase 1: Foundation (Week 1-2)
#### Project Scaffolding
- [x] Initialize Python project with pyproject.toml
- [x] Set up Rust workspace with Cargo.toml
- [x] Create Apache 2.0 LICENSE file
- [x] Write comprehensive README.md
- [x] Create flakestorm.yaml.example template
- [x] Set up project structure (src/flakestorm/*)
- [x] Configure pre-commit hooks (black, ruff, mypy)
#### Configuration System
- [x] Define Pydantic models for configuration
- [x] Implement YAML loading/validation
- [x] Support environment variable expansion
- [x] Create configuration factory functions
- [x] Add configuration validation tests
#### Agent Protocol/Adapter
- [x] Define AgentProtocol interface
- [x] Implement HTTPAgentAdapter
- [x] Implement PythonAgentAdapter
- [x] Implement LangChainAgentAdapter
- [x] Create adapter factory function
- [x] Add retry logic for HTTP adapter
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### Phase 2: Mutation Engine (Week 2-3)
#### Ollama Integration
- [x] Create MutationEngine class
- [x] Implement Ollama client wrapper
- [x] Add connection verification
- [x] Support async mutation generation
- [x] Implement batch generation
#### Mutation Types & Templates
- [x] Define MutationType enum
- [x] Create Mutation dataclass
- [x] Write templates for PARAPHRASE
- [x] Write templates for NOISE
- [x] Write templates for TONE_SHIFT
- [x] Write templates for PROMPT_INJECTION
- [x] Add mutation validation logic
- [x] Support custom templates
#### Rust Performance Bindings
- [x] Set up PyO3 bindings
- [x] Implement robustness score calculation
- [x] Implement weighted score calculation
- [x] Implement Levenshtein distance
- [x] Implement parallel processing utilities
- [x] Build and test Rust module
- [x] Integrate with Python package
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### Phase 3: Runner & Assertions (Week 3-4)
#### Async Runner
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- [x] Create FlakeStormRunner class
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- [x] Implement orchestrator logic
- [x] Add concurrency control with semaphores
- [x] Implement progress tracking
- [x] Add setup verification
#### Invariant System
- [x] Create InvariantVerifier class
- [x] Implement ContainsChecker
- [x] Implement LatencyChecker
- [x] Implement ValidJsonChecker
- [x] Implement RegexChecker
- [x] Implement SimilarityChecker
- [x] Implement ExcludesPIIChecker
- [x] Implement RefusalChecker
- [x] Add checker registry
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### Phase 4: CLI & Reporting (Week 4-5)
#### CLI Commands
- [x] Set up Typer application
- [x] Implement `flakestorm init` command
- [x] Implement `flakestorm run` command
- [x] Implement `flakestorm verify` command
- [x] Implement `flakestorm report` command
- [x] Implement `flakestorm score` command
- [x] Add CI mode (--ci --min-score)
- [x] Add rich progress bars
#### Report Generation
- [x] Create report data models
- [x] Implement HTMLReportGenerator
- [x] Create interactive HTML template
- [x] Implement JSONReportGenerator
- [x] Implement TerminalReporter
- [x] Add score visualization
- [x] Add mutation matrix view
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### Phase 5: V2 Features (Week 5-7)
#### HuggingFace Integration
- [x] Create HuggingFaceModelProvider
- [x] Support GGUF model downloading
- [x] Add recommended models list
- [x] Integrate with Ollama model importing
#### Vector Similarity
- [x] Create LocalEmbedder class
- [x] Integrate sentence-transformers
- [x] Implement similarity calculation
- [x] Add lazy model loading
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### Testing & Quality
#### Unit Tests
- [x] Test configuration loading
- [x] Test mutation types
- [x] Test assertion checkers
- [ ] Test agent adapters
- [ ] Test orchestrator
- [ ] Test report generation
#### Integration Tests
- [ ] Test full run with mock agent
- [ ] Test CLI commands
- [ ] Test report generation
#### Documentation
- [x] Write README.md
- [x] Create IMPLEMENTATION_CHECKLIST.md
- [x] Create ARCHITECTURE_SUMMARY.md
- [x] Create API_SPECIFICATION.md
- [x] Create CONTRIBUTING.md
- [x] Create CONFIGURATION_GUIDE.md
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### Phase 6: Essential Mutations (Week 7-8)
#### Core Mutation Types
- [x] Add ENCODING_ATTACKS mutation type
- [x] Add CONTEXT_MANIPULATION mutation type
- [x] Add LENGTH_EXTREMES mutation type
- [x] Update MutationType enum with all 8 types
- [x] Create templates for new mutation types
- [x] Update mutation validation for edge cases
#### Configuration Updates
- [x] Update MutationConfig defaults
- [x] Update example configuration files
- [x] Update orchestrator comments
#### Documentation Updates
- [x] Update README.md with comprehensive mutation types table
- [x] Add Mutation Strategy section to README
- [x] Update API_SPECIFICATION.md with all 8 types
- [x] Update MODULES.md with detailed mutation documentation
- [x] Add Mutation Types Guide to CONFIGURATION_GUIDE.md
- [x] Add Understanding Mutation Types to USAGE_GUIDE.md
- [x] Add Mutation Type Deep Dive to TEST_SCENARIOS.md
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### Phase 7: V2 Advanced Features (Roadmap - Open for Community Contribution)
> **Note**: These features are planned for future releases and are open for community contribution. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for how to contribute.
#### System-Level Chaos Engineering
**Goal**: Test agent resilience to infrastructure failures and system-level issues.
- [ ] **Latency Injection**
- Simulate network delays and slow responses
- Test agent timeout handling
- Configurable delay patterns (constant, variable, spike)
- Integration with HTTP adapter
- [ ] **Network Failure Simulation**
- Simulate connection timeouts
- Simulate connection errors
- Simulate partial responses
- Test retry logic and error handling
- [ ] **Rate Limiting & Throttling**
- Test agent behavior under rate limits
- Simulate 429 (Too Many Requests) responses
- Test backoff strategies
- Concurrent request testing
- [ ] **Resource Exhaustion Testing**
- Memory pressure simulation
- CPU stress testing
- Token limit testing (input/output)
- Context window boundary testing
#### Advanced Adversarial Attacks
**Goal**: Test against sophisticated attack techniques from security research.
- [ ] **Advanced Prompt Injection Techniques**
- Multi-turn injection attacks
- Role-playing attacks ("You are now...")
- DAN (Do Anything Now) variants
- Indirect prompt injection
- Prompt injection via context/retrieval
- [ ] **Jailbreak Techniques**
- Obfuscation-based jailbreaks
- Logic-based jailbreaks
- Encoding-based jailbreaks
- Multi-language jailbreaks
- Adversarial suffix attacks
- [ ] **Adversarial Examples Library**
- Integration with research datasets (AdvBench, etc.)
- Known attack patterns from literature
- Community-contributed attack patterns
- Attack pattern versioning and updates
- [ ] **Fuzzing Engine**
- Structure-aware fuzzing for JSON/structured inputs
- Grammar-based fuzzing
- Mutation-based fuzzing
- Coverage-guided fuzzing
- Crash detection and reporting
#### Multi-Turn Conversation Testing
**Goal**: Test agents in realistic conversation scenarios.
- [ ] **Conversation Context Testing**
- Multi-turn conversation flows
- Context retention testing
- Context window management
- Conversation state tracking
- [ ] **Conversation Mutation**
- Mutate conversation history
- Test context poisoning attacks
- Test conversation hijacking
- Test memory manipulation
- [ ] **Session Management Testing**
- Session persistence testing
- Session timeout handling
- Session isolation testing
- Cross-session contamination testing
#### State & Memory Testing
**Goal**: Test agent state management and memory behavior.
- [ ] **State Persistence Testing**
- Test state across requests
- Test state isolation
- Test state corruption scenarios
- Test state recovery
- [ ] **Memory Testing**
- Test memory leaks
- Test memory limits
- Test context window management
- Test long-term memory behavior
- [ ] **Consistency Testing**
- Test response consistency across runs
- Test deterministic behavior
- Test reproducibility
- Test version drift detection
#### Performance & Scalability Chaos
**Goal**: Test agent performance under various load conditions.
- [ ] **Concurrent Request Testing**
- Parallel request execution
- Race condition testing
- Resource contention testing
- Load testing capabilities
- [ ] **Performance Regression Testing**
- Baseline performance tracking
- Performance degradation detection
- Latency spike detection
- Throughput testing
- [ ] **Scalability Testing**
- Test with increasing load
- Test with increasing context size
- Test with increasing mutation count
- Resource usage monitoring
#### Advanced Mutation Strategies
**Goal**: More sophisticated mutation generation techniques.
- [ ] **Gradient-Based Mutations**
- Use model gradients to find adversarial examples
- Targeted mutation generation
- High-confidence failure case generation
- [ ] **Evolutionary Mutation**
- Genetic algorithm for mutation generation
- Evolve mutations that cause failures
- Adaptive mutation strategies
- [ ] **Model-Specific Attacks**
- Attacks tailored to specific model architectures
- Tokenizer-specific attacks
- Model version-specific attacks
- [ ] **Domain-Specific Mutations**
- Industry-specific mutation templates
- Compliance-focused mutations (HIPAA, GDPR)
- Financial domain mutations
- Healthcare domain mutations
#### Advanced Assertions & Verification
**Goal**: More sophisticated ways to verify agent behavior.
- [ ] **Multi-Modal Assertions**
- Image input/output testing (if applicable)
- Audio input/output testing
- Structured data validation
- File attachment testing
- [ ] **Behavioral Assertions**
- Action sequence validation
- Tool usage verification
- API call verification
- Side effect detection
- [ ] **Compliance Assertions**
- Regulatory compliance checks
- Privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA)
- Accessibility compliance
- Ethical AI guidelines
- [ ] **Statistical Assertions**
- Response distribution testing
- Variance analysis
- Outlier detection
- Trend analysis
#### Observability & Debugging
**Goal**: Better insights into why agents fail.
- [ ] **Failure Analysis Engine**
- Automatic root cause analysis
- Failure pattern detection
- Common failure mode identification
- Failure clustering
- [ ] **Debugging Tools**
- Interactive mutation explorer
- Response diff viewer
- Context inspector
- State visualization
- [ ] **Traceability**
- Full request/response tracing
- Mutation lineage tracking
- Decision path visualization
- Audit logging
#### Regression Testing & CI/CD
**Goal**: Integrate flakestorm into development workflows.
- [ ] **Regression Detection**
- Compare runs over time
- Detect performance regressions
- Detect behavior regressions
- Baseline management
- [ ] **CI/CD Integration**
- GitHub Actions integration
- GitLab CI integration
- Jenkins integration
- Pre-commit hooks
- [ ] **Test Result Tracking**
- Historical result storage
- Trend visualization
- Alerting on regressions
- Dashboard for test results
#### Distributed & Cloud Features
**Goal**: Scale testing beyond local hardware.
- [ ] **Distributed Execution**
- Run tests across multiple machines
- Parallel mutation execution
- Distributed result aggregation
- Cloud execution support
- [ ] **Test Result Sharing**
- Share test results across team
- Collaborative test development
- Test result comparison
- Benchmark sharing
- [ ] **Cloud Model Support**
- Support for cloud LLM APIs
- Multi-provider support (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
- Cost tracking
- Rate limit management
#### Research & Experimental Features
**Goal**: Cutting-edge testing techniques from research.
- [ ] **Red Teaming Framework**
- Systematic red teaming workflows
- Attack scenario templates
- Red team report generation
- Attack effectiveness scoring
- [ ] **Adversarial Training Integration**
- Generate training data from failures
- Export failure cases for fine-tuning
- Training loop integration
- Model improvement suggestions
- [ ] **Explainability Testing**
- Test explanation quality
- Test explanation consistency
- Test explanation accuracy
- Explanation robustness
- [ ] **Fairness & Bias Testing**
- Demographic parity testing
- Equalized odds testing
- Bias detection
- Fairness metrics
#### Community & Ecosystem
**Goal**: Build a thriving ecosystem around flakestorm.
- [ ] **Plugin System**
- Custom mutation type plugins
- Custom assertion plugins
- Custom adapter plugins
- Plugin marketplace
- [ ] **Template Library**
- Community-contributed mutation templates
- Industry-specific templates
- Attack pattern templates
- Best practice templates
- [ ] **Integration Libraries**
- LangChain deep integration
- LlamaIndex integration
- AutoGPT integration
- Custom framework adapters
- [ ] **Benchmark Suite**
- Standardized benchmarks
- Public leaderboard
- Model comparison tools
- Performance baselines
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## Progress Summary
| Phase | Status | Completion |
|-------|--------|------------|
| CLI Phase 1: Foundation | ✅ Complete | 100% |
| CLI Phase 2: Mutation Engine | ✅ Complete | 100% |
| CLI Phase 3: Runner & Assertions | ✅ Complete | 100% |
| CLI Phase 4: CLI & Reporting | ✅ Complete | 100% |
| CLI Phase 5: V2 Features | ✅ Complete | 90% |
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| CLI Phase 6: Essential Mutations | ✅ Complete | 100% |
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| CLI Phase 7: V2 Advanced Features | 🚧 Roadmap | 0% |
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| Documentation | ✅ Complete | 100% |
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## Next Steps
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### Immediate (Current Sprint)
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1. **Rust Build** : Compile and integrate Rust performance module
2. **Integration Tests** : Add full integration test suite
3. **PyPI Release** : Prepare and publish to PyPI
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4. **Community Launch** : Publish to Hacker News and Reddit
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### Future Roadmap (Phase 7)
See **Phase 7: V2 Advanced Features** above for comprehensive roadmap of advanced chaos engineering and adversarial testing features. These are open for community contribution - see [CONTRIBUTING.md ](CONTRIBUTING.md ) for how to get involved.
**Priority Areas for Community Contribution:**
1. **System-Level Chaos** - Most requested feature for production testing
2. **Multi-Turn Conversations** - Critical for conversational agents
3. **Advanced Prompt Injection** - Essential for security testing
4. **CI/CD Integration** - High value for development workflows
5. **Plugin System** - Enables ecosystem growth