flakestorm/docs/IMPLEMENTATION_CHECKLIST.md

# 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
- [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

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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% |
| CLI Phase 6: Essential Mutations | ✅ Complete | 100% |
| CLI Phase 7: V2 Advanced Features | 🚧 Roadmap | 0% |
| Documentation | ✅ Complete | 100% |

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## 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