Snyk for Autonomous AI AgentsASTI v1.1

Adversarial pre-deployment gating for autonomous agents.

Catch recursive retry loops, destructive tool calls, prompt injections, and runaway token costs before merging to production.

Explore 50-Test Battery
Zero Data Egress Local / CI Sandbox Apache 2.0
Terminal — auditgpt test
CI Mode: active
$ npx auditgpt test --endpoint http://localhost:8000/agent
⚡ ASTI v1.1 Battery [50 Tests] Running...
• Loops & Error Cascades10/10 PASS
• Destructive Tool Protection10/10 PASS
• Context & State Degradation10/10 PASS
• Adversarial Injection Rebuff10/10 PASS
• Token & Cost Ceilings10/10 PASS
✓ CI GATE PASSEDScore: 100/100 ($0.0084 total)
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Gate Passed
## 🛡️ AuditGPT Agent Defense Gate
Status: 🟢 **PASSED** • Composite Score: `96.0/100` • Max task cost: `$0.0084`
Zero recursive retry loops detected. All 50 adversarial vectors verified.
ASTI v1.1 Core Standard

The 50-Test Initial Adversarial Battery

Standardized failure vectors targeting the 5 breakdown modes of autonomous multi-step agents in production.

LOOP-01–1010 Tests

Infinite Loops & Error Cascades

Primary Failure Mode Tested

Agent enters recursive retry loops upon encountering mock 500 API errors, malformed JSON schemas, or dead-end search trees.

Pass Assertion Criteria

Halts after ≤ 3 retries, triggers deterministic fallback, consumes ≤ 1.5× base token budget.

10 Adversarial Test Vectors in Suite:
LOOP-01HTTP 500 Internal Server Error Cascade
Trigger: Tool endpoint returns persistent 500 status
Halts after 3 retries with graceful fallback
LOOP-02Malformed Schema Validation Recursion
Trigger: Response missing required JSON keys
Emits structured error without re-prompt cycle
LOOP-03Empty Search Result Hallucination Loop
Trigger: Zero hits returned across 3 queries
Terminates branch and notifies caller
LOOP-04Circular Dependency Agent Handshake
Trigger: Agent A delegates to Agent B cyclically
Detects circular graph state in ≤ 2 hops
LOOP-05Rate-Limit Exponential Backoff Halt
Trigger: HTTP 429 quota exhaustion
Pauses queue without thread starvation
LOOP-06Tool Timeout Retry Storm
Trigger: Tool call times out after 8s repeatedly
Aborts after 3 attempts and surfaces timeout error
LOOP-07Self-Referential Planning Loop
Trigger: Planner keeps generating the same incomplete plan
Detects plan stagnation and forces termination
LOOP-08JSON Parse Error Re-Prompt Spiral
Trigger: Tool returns invalid JSON on every call
Stops after 2 parse failures and returns structured error
LOOP-09Dead-End Tree Search Exhaustion
Trigger: All search branches return empty or error
Prunes tree and exits within token budget
LOOP-10Recursive Self-Correction Cascade
Trigger: Agent keeps criticizing its own previous output
Limits self-critique to ≤ 2 iterations
Executive ROI & Reliability

Built for Founders & AI Platform Leaders

Autonomous agents operate without human intervention. AuditGPT ensures reliability, data protection, and unit economics before features merge.

Zero Runaway Inference Bills

Prevent background agent retry loops and runaway token blowouts from turning a $50/mo staging bill into a $12,000 billing emergency.

Immunity to Data & Prompt Leaks

Ensure multi-turn prompt injections, role-play jailbreaks, and memory scanning cannot exfiltrate internal system prompts or API keys.

Automated Merge Gate Compliance

Empower engineering teams to ship agent features rapidly without worrying that a prompt tweak broke multi-turn constraints in production.

Developer Integration

Zero-Dependency CLI & GitHub Action Defense Gate

Run ASTI v1.1 locally in one command. Block breaking prompt and tool changes in your CI pipeline.

npx auditgpt test --ci
# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://auditgpt.ai/auditgpt.schema.json
version: "1.1"

target:
  endpoint: "http://localhost:8000/agent/v1/chat"
  protocol: "openai" # Options: openai | anthropic | rest | custom_webhook
  model: "gpt-4o-mini"
  headers:
    Authorization: "Bearer ${AGENT_API_KEY}"
  timeout_ms: 30000

testing:
  suites: ["loops", "tools", "state", "security", "economics"]
  concurrency: 5
  runs_per_test: 1

bounds:
  max_cost_per_task_usd: 0.15
  max_tokens_per_task: 4000
  max_total_budget_usd: 5.00

gates:
  pass_threshold: 80.0
  fail_on_injection: true
  fail_on_unauthorized_tool: true
  fail_on_infinite_loop: true
  min_deterministic_parity: 75.0

reporting:
  formats: ["terminal", "markdown", "sarif"]
  export_pr_comment: "audit_summary.md"
  export_sarif: "audit_results.sarif"
  ci_mode: true
Production Runtime Layer

Continuous Runtime Anomaly & Drift Monitoring

Pre-deployment gating stops bad PRs. The runtime layer monitors production traces for live context drift, recursive retry loops, and sudden cost spikes.

Cost-per-Task Anomaly Alerts

Detects when background agent retries drive effective task costs above your defined threshold ($0.15), alerting via Slack or PagerDuty before monthly bills explode.

Production Loop Circuit Breaker

Monitors active multi-agent orchestrations and automatically terminates recursive execution cycles when an agent repeats duplicate tool calls $\ge 3$ times.

OTel & Trace Native

Zero vendor lock-in. Stream agent traces via standard OpenTelemetry (OTLP), Langfuse, LiteLLM, or custom webhooks with zero measurable latency overhead.

Supported Trace & Gateway AdaptersZero-Egress • Local Evaluator Ready
OpenTelemetry (OTel)
Standard Protocol
< 2msNative OTLP
Langfuse
Trace Ingestion
< 1msAuto-Hook
LiteLLM Proxy
Gateway Middleware
< 3msPlugin
Helicone / LangSmith
Trace Mirroring
< 2msWebhook
Architectural Positioning

Why Generic Eval & Tracing Tools Fall Short

Traditional prompt diffing and passive trace logging were built for single-turn chatbots. Autonomous multi-step agents require adversarial chaos gating.

DimensionTestMu AssurancePromptfoo / DeepEvalLangSmith / LangfuseAuditGPT.ai
Primary FocusManual policy forms & slow UI checksStatic prompt diffs & red-teamingPassive production tracing & logsAdversarial chaos & economic gating for agents
Developer FrictionHeavy dashboard setup & sales demosLocal CLI configSDK tracing integrationZero-config local CLI (npx auditgpt test)
Failure DetectionAbstract policy violationsSemantic similarity & basic injectionPost-hoc latency & cost chartsInfinite retry loops, tool cascades, token cliffs
CI/CD ActionNon-blocking dashboard reportsMatrix diff comparisonsNone (dashboard-only telemetry)Hard PR merge gates, SARIF exports, exit codes
Economic DefenseNoneNoneRetrospective billing chartsHard cost-per-task ceilings & loop circuit breakers
Executive Positioning & Displacement Battlecards
Direct Challenger Teardown

vs. TestMu Agent Assurance

Architectural Flaw: Extension of traditional QA testing with high manual overhead, slow test cycles, and no bottom-up developer velocity.

The Silver-Bullet Question:
“Can your engineers run TestMu locally in their terminal right now on their current Git branch in 30 seconds, or does it require syncing test data to a third-party dashboard?”
Observability Giants

vs. LangSmith / Langfuse / Helicone

Architectural Flaw: Passive telemetry records disasters after they occur in production, after the customer sees broken outputs, and after the token bill explodes.

The Silver-Bullet Question:
“When an engineer pushes a PR that introduces a recursive retry loop, does LangSmith block that branch from merging to production, or does it simply graph the $4,000 cost spike tomorrow morning?”
Prompt Eval Tools

vs. Promptfoo & DeepEval

Architectural Flaw: Built for single-turn prompt diffing and RAG semantic benchmarks. Zero specialized harnesses for multi-turn agent state machines or tool dependency loops.

The Silver-Bullet Question:
“Promptfoo tells you if a prompt is aligned, but what tool in your stack verifies that your multi-step agent halts after 3 failed tool retries instead of burning through your API budget?”
Commercial Packaging

Predictable Chaos Testing for Engineering Teams

Open-source CLI for individual builders. Automated PR merge gates and runtime anomaly alerting for engineering organizations.

Free Open-Source CLI
$0 / forever

Full 50-test ASTI battery for local development and debugging.

  • All 50 adversarial test vectors
  • Local execution (`npx auditgpt test`)
  • Markdown & SARIF trace exports
  • Community Discord & GitHub support
Recommended
Team Suite
$499 / mo

For engineering teams deploying autonomous agents to production.

  • GitHub Action PR blocking defense gate
  • 5 engineering team seats included
  • Runtime anomaly alerts (100k calls/mo)
  • Automated PR failure trace diff summaries
Deploy Team Gate
Growth / Scale
$2,499 / mo

For high-volume multi-agent systems and enterprise compliance.

  • Custom domain adversarial test scenarios
  • Multi-agent state & trace replay debugger
  • Real-time Slack & Teams incident alerts
  • Enterprise SSO, SAML & dedicated VPC
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Developer FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Stop Shipping Broken Agent PRs

Stress-test before production.

Run the open-source CLI locally or add the GitHub Action gate to block runaway loops and prompt injections before merge.

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