# 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 --- ### 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 --- ### Phase 3: Runner & Assertions (Week 3-4) #### Async Runner - [x] Create FlakeStormRunner class - [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 --- ### 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 --- ### 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 --- ### 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 --- ### 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 --- ### 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 --- ## 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% | | CLI Phase 6: Essential Mutations | ✅ Complete | 100% | | CLI Phase 7: V2 Advanced Features | 🚧 Roadmap | 0% | | Documentation | ✅ Complete | 100% | --- ## Next Steps ### Immediate (Current Sprint) 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 4. **Community Launch**: Publish to Hacker News and Reddit ### 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