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A practitioner reference for LLM jailbreak techniques. Working bypasses, model behaviors they exploit, the patches that did and didn't fix them — written for AI red teamers who need to know what's still landing today.

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Open Source LLM Security Tools: Licensing and Cost

Tooling

Jailbreak Benchmarks: AdvBench, HarmBench, JailbreakBench

Tooling

Payload Splitting and Encoding Jailbreaks Explained

Techniques

Best AI Red Teaming Tools for LLMs: A Practitioner's Comparison

Tooling

Lethal Trifecta and CaMeL: Containing Agent Injection

Defense

Best LLM Guardrail Tools 2026: A Practitioner's Comparison

Defense

How LLM Jailbreaks Work: Techniques and Success Rates

Foundations

DAN Prompt Jailbreak Explained: How 'Do Anything Now' Works

Techniques

LLM Defense Stack: Guardrails, Tool Scoping, and Egress

Defense

Why Jailbreaks Work: Competing Objectives and Generalization

Foundations

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22 writeups is a lot to land in cold. These are the entry points most people want, in the order they usually want them.

  • Why jailbreaks work at all

    Competing objectives and mismatched generalization — the two failure modes every technique on this site exploits.

  • Still Works? tracker

    A filterable matrix of technique classes against current model families. Filter by model, surface, or to active cells only.

  • The technique catalog

    Ten attack classes, each with current status and the mitigation that actually moves it. The index to everything else here.

  • PAIR vs GCG vs TAP

    Which automated jailbreak framework to run: threat model fit, query budget, transferability, and compute cost.

  • LLM red teaming tools

    Garak, PyRIT, Promptfoo, Giskard, the benchmarks behind the numbers, and what none of them cover.

  • The DAN prompt, explained

    How persona-redefinition jailbreaks worked, why they mostly stopped, and what replaced them.

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