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POST/api/v1/security/auto-attack

Start an automated adversarial attack session

Launches an automated red-team session (TAP or IRT strategy) against a target model in a project. Creates an auto_attack_sessions row and returns a sessionId to poll via GET. `goal` is required unless `useLibrary` is true.

Authentication

Send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY on every request. Generate API keys at /dashboard/api-keys.

Request body required

Example

{
  "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "targetModel": "string",
  "goal": "<Attack goal; required unless useLibrary=>",
  "maxRounds": 1,
  "candidatesPerRound": 1,
  "categories": [
    "string"
  ],
  "strategy": "tap",
  "targetSystemPrompt": "string",
  "stopOnFirstSuccess": false,
  "useLibrary": false,
  "libraryCategory": "string",
  "libraryCount": 1
}
Schema
{
  "application/json": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "projectId": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uuid",
          "pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$"
        },
        "targetModel": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 1,
          "maxLength": 200
        },
        "goal": {
          "type": "string",
          "maxLength": 20000,
          "description": "Attack goal; required unless useLibrary=true."
        },
        "maxRounds": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 1,
          "maximum": 20
        },
        "candidatesPerRound": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 1,
          "maximum": 20
        },
        "categories": {
          "maxItems": 50,
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string",
            "maxLength": 120
          }
        },
        "strategy": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "tap",
            "irt"
          ]
        },
        "targetSystemPrompt": {
          "type": "string",
          "maxLength": 100000
        },
        "stopOnFirstSuccess": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "useLibrary": {
          "type": "boolean",
          "description": "Test against the built-in jailbreak library instead of LLM-generated attacks."
        },
        "libraryCategory": {
          "type": "string",
          "maxLength": 120
        },
        "libraryCount": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 1,
          "maximum": 500
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "projectId",
        "targetModel"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  }
}

Response

201 example

{
  "success": true
}

All status codes

201Session created (sessionId + config).
400(no description)
401(no description)
429(no description)

Code samples

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/security/auto-attack \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVALGUARD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "targetModel": "string", "goal": "<Attack goal; required unless useLibrary=>", "maxRounds": 1, "candidatesPerRound": 1, "categories": [ "string" ], "strategy": "tap", "targetSystemPrompt": "string", "stopOnFirstSuccess": false, "useLibrary": false, "libraryCategory": "string", "libraryCount": 1 }'

TypeScript

import { EvalGuard } from "@evalguard/sdk";

const client = new EvalGuard({ apiKey: process.env.EVALGUARD_API_KEY });

const response = await client.request({
  method: "POST",
  path: "/api/v1/security/auto-attack",
  body: {
    "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "targetModel": "string",
    "goal": "<Attack goal; required unless useLibrary=>",
    "maxRounds": 1,
    "candidatesPerRound": 1,
    "categories": [
      "string"
    ],
    "strategy": "tap",
    "targetSystemPrompt": "string",
    "stopOnFirstSuccess": false,
    "useLibrary": false,
    "libraryCategory": "string",
    "libraryCount": 1
  },
});
console.log(response);

Python

from evalguard import EvalGuard
import os

client = EvalGuard(api_key=os.environ["EVALGUARD_API_KEY"])

response = client.request(
    method="POST",
    path="/api/v1/security/auto-attack",
    body={
    "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "targetModel": "string",
    "goal": "<Attack goal; required unless useLibrary=>",
    "maxRounds": 1,
    "candidatesPerRound": 1,
    "categories": [
        "string"
    ],
    "strategy": "tap",
    "targetSystemPrompt": "string",
    "stopOnFirstSuccess": False,
    "useLibrary": False,
    "libraryCategory": "string",
    "libraryCount": 1
},
)
print(response)

Go

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader(`{"projectId":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","targetModel":"string","goal":"<Attack goal; required unless useLibrary=>","maxRounds":1,"candidatesPerRound":1,"categories":["string"],"strategy":"tap","targetSystemPrompt":"string","stopOnFirstSuccess":false,"useLibrary":false,"libraryCategory":"string","libraryCount":1}`)
	req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(context.Background(), "POST", "https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/security/auto-attack", body)
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("EVALGUARD_API_KEY"))
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	fmt.Println(resp.Status)
}

Errors

400401429

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