Red teaming

Structured adversarial testing of a model or agent to elicit failures (jailbreaks, injection, tool misuse) before an attacker does; treated here as an evidence-producing control.

Developed in
ch. 05, Pattern: Adversarial Red-Team Suite
Chapters
ch. 04, The Stack · ch. 05, Patterns · ch. 15, Deployment
Source
Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source

Where it is used

15 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

5 pattern pages use the term, most mentions first.

Sources

No external source: the term is coined or used in a specific sense by this Body of Knowledge, and the section linked under "Developed in" is its source.

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Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Red teaming. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/red-teaming. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026redteaming,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Red teaming}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/red-teaming}
}