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This repository also provides the detection signatures and datasets needed to get started with self-hosting.\n\nThis application is currently in an **alpha** state and should be considered experimental / for research purposes. \n\nFor an enterprise-ready AI firewall, I kindly refer you to my employer, [Robust Intelligence](https://www.robustintelligence.com).\n\n* **[Full documentation](https://vigil.deadbits.ai)**\n* **[Release Blog](https://vigil.deadbits.ai/overview/background)**\n\n## Highlights ✨\n\n* Analyze LLM prompts for common injections and risky inputs\n* [Use Vigil as a Python library](#using-in-python) or [REST API](#running-api-server)\n* Scanners are modular and easily extensible\n* Evaluate detections and pipelines with **Vigil-Eval** (coming soon)\n* Available scan modules\n    * [x] Vector database / text similarity\n      * [Auto-updating on detected prompts](https://vigil.deadbits.ai/overview/use-vigil/auto-updating-vector-database)\n    * [x] Heuristics via [YARA](https://virustotal.github.io/yara)\n    * [x] Transformer model\n    * [x] Prompt-response similarity\n    * [x] Canary Tokens\n    * [x] Sentiment analysis \n    * [ ] Relevance (via [LiteLLM](https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/))\n    * [ ] Paraphrasing\n* Supports [local embeddings](https://www.sbert.net/) and/or [OpenAI](https://platform.openai.com/)\n* Signatures and embeddings for common attacks\n* Custom detections via YARA signatures\n* [Streamlit web UI playground](https://vigil.deadbits.ai/overview/use-vigil/web-server/web-ui-playground)\n\n## Background 🏗️\n\n\u003e Prompt Injection Vulnerability occurs when an attacker manipulates a large language model (LLM) through crafted inputs, causing the LLM to unknowingly execute the attacker's intentions. This can be done directly by \"jailbreaking\" the system prompt or indirectly through manipulated external inputs, potentially leading to data exfiltration, social engineering, and other issues.\n- [LLM01 - OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications v1.0.1 | OWASP.org](https://owasp.org/www-project-top-10-for-large-language-model-applications/assets/PDF/OWASP-Top-10-for-LLMs-2023-v1_0_1.pdf)\n\nThese issues are caused by the nature of LLMs themselves, which do not currently separate instructions and data. Although prompt injection attacks are currently unsolvable and there is no defense that will work 100% of the time, by using a layered approach of detecting known techniques you can at least defend against the more common / documented attacks. \n\n`Vigil`, or a system like it, should not be your only defense - always implement proper security controls and mitigations.\n\n\u003e [!NOTE]\n\u003e Keep in mind, LLMs are not yet widely adopted and integrated with other applications, therefore threat actors have less motivation to find new or novel attack vectors. Stay informed on current attacks and adjust your defenses accordingly!\n\n**Additional Resources**\n\nFor more information on prompt injection, I recommend the following resources and following the research being performed by people like [Kai Greshake](https://kai-greshake.de/), [Simon Willison](https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=prompt+injection\u0026tag=promptinjection), and others.\n\n* [Prompt Injection Primer for Engineers](https://github.com/jthack/PIPE)\n* [OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications v1.0.1 | OWASP.org](https://owasp.org/www-project-top-10-for-large-language-model-applications/assets/PDF/OWASP-Top-10-for-LLMs-2023-v1_0_1.pdf)\n* [Securing LLM Systems Against Prompt Injection](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/securing-llm-systems-against-prompt-injection/)\n\n## Install Vigil 🛠️\n\nFollow the steps below to install Vigil\n\nA [Docker container](docs/docker.md) is also available, but this is not currently recommended.\n\n### Clone Repository\nClone the repository or [grab the latest release](https://github.com/deadbits/vigil-llm/releases)\n```\ngit clone https://github.com/deadbits/vigil-llm.git\ncd vigil-llm\n```\n\n### Install YARA\nFollow the instructions on the [YARA Getting Started documentation](https://yara.readthedocs.io/en/stable/gettingstarted.html) to download and install [YARA v4.3.2](https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/releases).\n\n### Setup Virtual Environment\n```\npython3 -m venv venv\nsource venv/bin/activate\n```\n\n### Install Vigil library\nInside your virutal environment, install the application:\n```\npip install -e .\n```\n\n### Configure Vigil\nOpen the `conf/server.conf` file in your favorite text editor:\n\n```bash\nvim conf/server.conf\n```\n\nFor more information on modifying the `server.conf` file, please review the [Configuration documentation](https://vigil.deadbits.ai/overview/use-vigil/configuration).\n\n\u003e [!IMPORTANT]\n\u003e Your VectorDB scanner embedding model setting must match the model used to generate the embeddings loaded into the database, or similarity search will not work.\n\n### Load Datasets\nLoad the appropriate [datasets](https://vigil.deadbits.ai/overview/use-vigil/load-datasets) for your embedding model with the `loader.py` utility. If you don't intend on using the vector db scanner, you can skip this step.\n\n```bash\npython loader.py --conf conf/server.conf --dataset deadbits/vigil-instruction-bypass-ada-002\npython loader.py --conf conf/server.conf --dataset deadbits/vigil-jailbreak-ada-002\n```\n\nYou can load your own datasets as long as you use the columns:\n\n| Column     | Type        |\n|------------|-------------|\n| text       | string      |\n| embeddings | list[float] |\n| model      | string      |\n\n## Use Vigil 🔬\n\nVigil can run as a REST API server or be imported directly into your Python application.\n\n### Running API Server\n\nTo start the Vigil API server, run the following command:\n\n```bash\npython vigil-server.py --conf conf/server.conf\n```\n\n* [API Documentation](https://github.com/deadbits/vigil-llm#api-endpoints-)\n\n### Using in Python\n\nVigil can also be used within your own Python application as a library.\n\nImport the `Vigil` class and pass it your config file.\n\n```python\nfrom vigil.vigil import Vigil\n\napp = Vigil.from_config('conf/openai.conf')\n\n# assess prompt against all input scanners\nresult = app.input_scanner.perform_scan(\n    input_prompt=\"prompt goes here\"\n)\n\n# assess prompt and response against all output scanners\napp.output_scanner.perform_scan(\n    input_prompt=\"prompt goes here\",\n    input_resp=\"LLM response goes here\"\n)\n\n# use canary tokens and returned updated prompt as a string\nupdated_prompt = app.canary_tokens.add(\n    prompt=prompt,\n    always=always if always else False,\n    length=length if length else 16, \n    header=header if header else '\u003c-@!-- {canary} --@!-\u003e',\n)\n# returns True if a canary is found\nresult = app.canary_tokens.check(prompt=llm_response)\n```\n\n## Detection Methods 🔍\nSubmitted prompts are analyzed by the configured `scanners`; each of which can contribute to the final detection.\n\n**Available scanners:**\n* Vector database\n* YARA / heuristics\n* Transformer model\n* Prompt-response similarity\n* Canary Tokens\n\nFor more information on how each works, refer to the [detections documentation](docs/detections.md).\n\n### Canary Tokens\nCanary tokens are available through a dedicated class / API.\n\nYou can use these in two different detection workflows:\n* Prompt leakage\n* Goal hijacking\n\nRefer to the [docs/canarytokens.md](docs/canarytokens.md) file for more information.\n\n## API Endpoints 🌐\n\n**POST /analyze/prompt**\n\nPost text data to this endpoint for analysis.\n\n**arguments:**\n* **prompt**: str: text prompt to analyze\n\n```bash\ncurl -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n    -d '{\"prompt\":\"Your prompt here\"}' http://localhost:5000/analyze\n```\n\n**POST /analyze/response**\n\nPost text data to this endpoint for analysis.\n\n**arguments:**\n* **prompt**: str: text prompt to analyze\n* **response**: str: prompt response to analyze\n\n```bash\ncurl -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n    -d '{\"prompt\":\"Your prompt here\", \"response\": \"foo\"}' http://localhost:5000/analyze\n```\n\n**POST /canary/add**\n\nAdd a canary token to a prompt\n\n**arguments:**\n* **prompt**: str: prompt to add canary to\n* **always**: bool: add prefix to always include canary in LLM response (optional)\n* **length**: str: canary token length (optional, default 16)\n* **header**: str: canary header string (optional, default `\u003c-@!-- {canary} --@!-\u003e`)\n\n```bash\ncurl -X POST \"http://127.0.0.1:5000/canary/add\" \\\n     -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n     --data '{\n          \"prompt\": \"Prompt I want to add a canary token to and later check for leakage\",\n          \"always\": true\n      }'\n```\n\n**POST /canary/check**\n\nCheck if an output contains a canary token\n\n**arguments:**\n* **prompt**: str: prompt to check for canary\n\n```bash\ncurl -X POST \"http://127.0.0.1:5000/canary/check\" \\\n     -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n     --data '{\n        \"prompt\": \"\u003c-@!-- 1cbbe75d8cf4a0ce --@!-\u003e\\nPrompt I want to check for canary\"\n      }'\n```\n\n**POST /add/texts**\n\nAdd new texts to the vector database and return doc IDs\nText will be embedded at index time.\n\n**arguments:**\n* **texts**: str: list of texts\n* **metadatas**: str: list of metadatas\n\n```bash\ncurl -X POST \"http://127.0.0.1:5000/add/texts\" \\\n     -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n     --data '{\n         \"texts\": [\"Hello, world!\", \"Blah blah.\"],\n         \"metadatas\": [\n             {\"author\": \"John\", \"date\": \"2023-09-17\"},\n             {\"author\": \"Jane\", \"date\": \"2023-09-10\", \"topic\": \"cybersecurity\"}\n         ]\n     }'\n```\n\n**GET /settings**\n\nView current application settings\n\n```bash\ncurl http://localhost:5000/settings\n```\n\n## Sample scan output 📌\n\n**Example scan output:**\n```json\n{\n  \"status\": \"success\",\n  \"uuid\": \"0dff767c-fa2a-41ce-9f5e-fc3c981e42a4\",\n  \"timestamp\": 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