Red-team strategy

Retry with Variations

retry

Re-sends attacks with minor variations (whitespace, punctuation, word order) to bypass pattern matching

YAML config

evalguard.config.yaml

redteam:
  strategies:
    - retry

CLI

bash

# "retry" 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.

Threat-model fit

The 'Retry with Variations' strategy effectively probes systems that rely on pattern matching for input validation and security. It targets vulnerabilities in systems that may not account for minor alterations in user input, allowing attackers to bypass filters and gain unauthorized access.

LLM-generated (llm-gpt-4o) · 2026-05-23