TAP
Also written Tree of Attacks with Pruning
A tree search on top of PAIR. The attacker branches into several candidate refinements at each step instead of one, then prunes the branches an evaluator judges off-topic or unpromising before spending queries on them. The pruning is what makes it efficient: far fewer target queries for a higher success rate. It is the strongest of the black-box persuasion families in the taxonomy.
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PAIR
Attack families
An attacker model and a target model in a loop: the attacker proposes a prompt, sees how the target responded, and rewrites the prompt to do better …
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PAP
Attack families
PAP applies the taxonomy of human persuasion — authority, reciprocity, social proof, emotional appeal, expert framing, logical appeal — to the harmful…
Attack families
The ten families in the HackAgent attack taxonomy (AISecurityLab/hackagent ↗), which is the taxonomy MoorAI's red-team corpora are keyed to. They are not ten unrelated tricks — they cluster into two groups that behave very differently. Obfuscation families hide the payload so the model never recognises it as harmful. Persuasion families state the harmful request plainly and argue the model into it. That split matters, because a model that refuses persuasion outright will happily comply with an encoding it cannot decode — see marginal value.