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Red-team strategy

Foot-in-the-Door

foot-in-the-door

Exploits commitment/consistency bias: secures a small benign agreement first, then leverages that prior compliance to escalate toward the objective. The static transform emits a commitment ladder; runAdaptive drives a real multi-round escalation against a live target.

YAML config

evalguard.config.yaml
redteam:
  strategies:
    - foot-in-the-door

CLI

bash
# "foot-in-the-door" is layered onto attacks during red-team scans.
# List every available encoding/obfuscation strategy:
evalguard list strategies
Combine with attack plugins to generate adversarial payloads. The strategy wraps each base payload before it's sent to your target, testing whether the model decodes / unwraps the transform and follows the embedded instruction.