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How the Prompt-Injection Red-Team Kit gate works
How the Prompt Injection Red Team Kit grades an app's defenses across 6 controls and 15 OWASP-mapped probes into a resilience score: an open-critical gate forces FIX when a critical-severity injection probe still gets through — which is how the sample scores 70 and still reads FIX.
How the gate works
This tool grades one AI app's defenses across 15 OWASP-mapped prompt-injection probes. Each control is marked from your own evidence and weighted into a 0–100 score — and then the score is run past a gate that can only make the verdict worse.
The 6 weighted controls
| Signal | Weight |
|---|---|
| Instruction hierarchy | 26 |
| Segregate untrusted content | 24 |
| Filter outputs for secrets | 20 |
| Normalize, then re-check | 6 |
| Sanitize model output | 8 |
| Least-privilege tools | 16 |
| Total | 100 |
The verdict bands
Any still-open CRITICAL-severity probe forces FIX no matter the score; an open HIGH-severity probe blocks SHIP outright. Segregate untrusted content is the one defense standing between this app and its open critical-severity finding.
In the worked sample it scores 70 out of 100 and still reads FIX — The app defends 4 of 6 practices for 70% weighted resilience - enough to clear the HOLD line on score alone. But Segregate untrusted content is off, so the critical-severity 'instruction hidden in a document' probe (and a high-severity delimiter-spoof probe) both get through. The critical-probe gate forces FIX regardless of score. Marked fix first on this sample: Segregate untrusted content - turn it on and both open findings close, including the one critical-severity probe holding this at FIX.
Common questions
Can something score well on the Prompt Injection Red Team gate and still fail?
Yes. The weighted score is run past a worsen-only gate — the Critical-probe — that can only make the verdict worse. In the worked sample it scores 70 out of 100 and still reads FIX, because the app defends 4 of 6 practices for 70% weighted resilience - enough to clear the HOLD line on score alone. But Segregate untrusted content is off, so the critical-severity 'instruction hidden in a document' probe (and a high-severity delimiter-spoof probe) both get through. The critical-probe gate forces FIX regardless of score.
What is a worsen-only gate?
A rule that can only lower a verdict, never raise it. One gate-triggering gap overrides an otherwise-good score, because a single gate-triggering gap shouldn't hide behind a high average. Where something is short, the fix-first row names it — here, "Segregate untrusted content - turn it on and both open findings close, including the one critical-severity probe holding this at FIX.".
Simulation only - no real model, no network call. Defensive tool: run the real kit only against systems you own or are authorized to test.
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This is how Prompt Injection Red Team Kit for LLM Apps works. More diagrams in the Visual Field Guide.