Generators that need no key

Before pointing a scan at anything that costs money, it is worth knowing which targets are free, because they are how you check a scan is set up correctly.

Generator	What it answers	What it is for
test.Blank	an empty string	checking a probe runs at all
test.Repeat	the prompt it was given	seeing what a probe actually sends
test.Lipsum	filler text	giving detectors something to chew on
test.Single	one fixed string	a fixed answer for a detector test
function	whatever your Python returns	your own application

test.Repeat is the useful one. Point a probe at it and the report holds exactly what that probe sends, which is how lesson 10 reads a probe without reading its source.

Example

garak -t test -n Repeat --spec probes.test.Blank --generations 1 --report_prefix echo

The run passes, because an empty prompt repeated back is still empty and the detector has nothing to report. What matters is the report it wrote, not the verdict.

These are not a substitute for a real target. They exist so that a scan which fails tells you something. If a probe errors against test.Blank the problem is the probe or the install; if it only fails against your function, the problem is yours.

Try it yourself

Run the same probe against -n Lipsum and compare the verdicts.
Run it against -n Single and find where the fixed answer is configured.
Work out which of the five you would use to test a detector you just wrote.

PreviousYour own app as the target

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