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HackAgent is an open-source security toolkit to detect vulnerabilities of your AI Agents.

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HackAgent - AI Agent Security Testing Toolkit

AI Security Red-Team Toolkit


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What is HackAgent?

HackAgent is a comprehensive Python SDK and CLI designed to help security researchers, developers, and AI safety practitioners evaluate and strengthen the security of AI agents.

As AI agents become more powerful and autonomous, they face security challenges that traditional testing tools cannot address:

Threat Description
Prompt Injection Malicious inputs that hijack agent behavior
Jailbreaking Bypassing safety guardrails and content filters
Goal Hijacking Manipulating agents to pursue unintended objectives
Tool Misuse Exploiting agent capabilities for unauthorized actions

HackAgent automates testing for these vulnerabilities using research-backed attack techniques, helping you identify and fix security issues before they are exploited.

HackAgent CLI Demo

Interactive TUI with real-time attack progress and visual reporting.

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Quick Install

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install hackagent

No API key required: HackAgent works locally out of the box.

Questions? Join community discussions or email ais@ai4i.it.

Architecture

HackAgent uses a modular pipeline to test agent robustness end-to-end.

Component Description
Attack Engine Orchestrates attacks using AdvPrefix, AutoDAN-Turbo, PAIR, TAP, FlipAttack, BoN, h4rm3l, CipherChat, PAP, and Baseline
Generator LLM role that creates adversarial prompts to test the target agent
Judge LLM role that evaluates whether attacks bypass safety measures
Target Agent Your AI agent under test across supported frameworks
Datasets Pre-built benchmark presets plus custom HuggingFace/file datasets

Supported Frameworks

Google ADK OpenAI SDK LiteLLM LangChain

Reporting

HackAgent supports both local and remote reporting.

  • Local mode stores test results in SQLite and includes a built-in dashboard.
  • Cloud mode syncs runs to the HackAgent remote platform when an API key is configured.
hackagent web

Access cloud reporting at https://app.hackagent.dev.

Responsible Use

HackAgent is designed for authorized security testing only. Always obtain explicit permission before testing any AI system.

Do

  • Test your own agents
  • Conduct authorized pentesting
  • Follow coordinated disclosure
  • Share security knowledge responsibly

Don't

  • Test systems without permission
  • Exploit vulnerabilities maliciously
  • Violate terms of service
  • Share harmful exploit instructions irresponsibly

Read the full guidelines: Responsible Disclosure

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.

License

Licensed under Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.

Disclaimer

HackAgent is intended for security research and AI safety improvement. The authors are not responsible for misuse.

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