https://github.com/ifixai-ai/iFixAi
Catch your AI's mistakes and blind spots before your customers or regulators do. iFixAi runs 45 inspections, 32 graded core plus 13 extended for frontier risks like sabotage, sandbagging, and oversight evasion. It returns a letter grade in under 5 minutes. Industry and model agnostic.
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Catch your AI's mistakes and blind spots before your customers or regulators do. iFixAi runs 45 inspections, 32 graded core plus 13 extended for frontier risks like sabotage, sandbagging, and oversight evasion. It returns a letter grade in under 5 minutes. Industry and model agnostic.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ifixai-ai/iFixAi
- Owner: ifixai-ai
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2026-04-27T13:02:34.000Z (2 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2026-06-26T10:19:55.000Z (about 15 hours ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-06-26T11:17:25.445Z (about 14 hours ago)
- Topics: agent-evaluation, ai, ai-alignment, ai-evaluation, ai-governance, ai-safety, cli, diagnostic-tool, eu-ai-act, hallucination-detection, iso-42001, llm-evaluation, llm-security, nist-ai-rmf, owasp-llm, prompt-injection, python, responsible-ai, risk-assessment, risk-management
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://www.ifixai.ai
- Size: 21.2 MB
- Stars: 570
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 112
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
- Security: SECURITY.md
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README
iFixAi
The diagnostic for AI operational misalignment
Catch your agent's mistakes and blind spots before the shit hits the fan.
Quick start •
Two ways to run •
Test your agent •
Scoring •
In the wild •
Docs •
Contributing
Recorded from a custom client build. The open-source CLI runs the same diagnostic with different presentation.
---
## What it is
iFixAi detects AI operational misalignment before it damages your business. By that, we mean
any action, omission, or behaviour from your AI that does not match what your business
intended, designed, or expects it to do. The dangerous part is that this rarely shows up in
your usual KPIs. An agent can hit every dashboard target while quietly leaking a permission,
fabricating a citation, caving to a manipulative prompt, or doing something it was never
authorised to do. Those are the blind spots that surface as an incident, a customer complaint,
or a regulator's question long after the damage is done. iFixAi finds them first.
It runs up to 45 inspections against your agent, from direct policy compliance to adversarial
pressure and structural edge cases. These come in two tiers: 32 core plus 13 extended. The 32
core inspections cover five pillars of misalignment risk: fabrication, manipulation, deception,
unpredictability, and opacity. Together with five of the extended inspections, they produce the
letter grade, which you get back in under 5 minutes. The 13 extended inspections span 11 new
categories of frontier agent risk, such as sabotage, sandbagging, oversight evasion, and power
elevation. Five of them feed the grade, one a mandatory minimum that can cap it; the other eight
are exploratory, scored and reported on their own, so they widen your coverage without moving
the headline grade.
Because the whole point is trust, iFixAi is honest about what it is. It is not a certification
or a safety guarantee. It is a repeatable diagnostic you can run in CI: by default, your agent
is judged by independent providers rather than by itself, one in Standard mode and an ensemble
of two or more in Full mode. Every run also writes a manifest of all its inputs, so the result
can be audited and replayed.
## Two ways to run it
There are two ways to run iFixAi, and both run the same diagnostic underneath: the
command-line tool (the CLI) or the Claude Code plugin. Either one tests any model and lets
you choose who grades it. The difference is who drives: you script the CLI yourself, or let
Claude operate the plugin for you.
| | **CLI** (`pip install`) | **Claude Code plugin** |
|---|---|---|
| **How you drive it** | you write the **fixture** (the config describing your agent) and CLI flags; scriptable, CI-friendly | Claude is the operator: it discovers your setup, builds the fixture, runs it, and explains the scorecard |
| **What you can test** | any provider, or your agent's real endpoint | any provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Azure, Bedrock, …); Claude only guides |
| **Who grades it** | any judge: self, one independent vendor, or a panel | same: self, one independent judge, or a cross-vendor panel |
| **Output** | JSON + markdown/HTML reports | interactive results artifact (+ JSON source of truth; static-report fallback) |
| **Setup** | `pip install` + the provider key(s) you'll test | keys in your Claude Code `settings.json` env; the engine self-provisions |
| **Best for** | CI, automation, audit-ready batch runs | a guided, explained run with discovery and an interactive scorecard |
**Plugin:** Claude runs the diagnostic for you. Open this repo in [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) and say
*"run iFixAi on my setup."* Claude reads your agent's config, shows the test fixture
it builds and names the cost before billing, runs the diagnostic on the model(s)
and judge(s) you choose, then explains the scorecard. The rest of this page covers the CLI.
## Quick start
Now try it yourself. In three commands you install iFixAi, check that it runs, then grade a
real model. The grade you get back is citable because a different vendor's AI does the grading,
not the agent judging itself. Full walkthrough: **[docs/get-started.md](docs/get-started.md)**.
```bash
# 1. Install the CLI + the extra for the provider you'll test
pip install "ifixai[anthropic]"
# 2. Prove the pipeline runs: built-in mock, no keys, no network, ~1s
ifixai run --provider mock --api-key not-used --eval-mode self
# 3. Get a citable grade: your model graded by a *different* vendor's judge
pip install "ifixai[anthropic,openai]" # SUT's + judge's SDKs (or ifixai[all])
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-... # the SUT, graded
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... # the judge, auto-paired from the environment
ifixai run --provider anthropic --api-key "$ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"
```
Every run has **two roles**, and a citable run needs a key for each:
| Role | What it is | How you set it |
|---|---|---|
| **SUT** (system under test) | the agent/model being **graded** | `--provider` + `--api-key`; the SUT key is always passed explicitly, never read from the environment |
| **Judge** | who **grades** it | auto-paired from a *different* provider whose key is in your environment (the SUT's own vendor is excluded, so it never grades itself) |
Reports land in `./ifixai-results/` as JSON **and** Markdown. Without a second key, add
`--eval-mode self` to run as a smoke test (the grade still prints, but it's flagged as
self-judged, not a result you can cite). Pinning the judge, Full-mode ensembles, and the eval modes:
**[docs/running.md](docs/running.md)**. Other providers (OpenAI, OpenRouter, Gemini,
Azure, Bedrock, Hugging Face, HTTP, LangChain) install the matching extra and follow the
same steps: **[docs/providers.md](docs/providers.md)**.
### Test your own agent
The commands above call a **bare model API**: the simplest case, and it scores lower
because a bare model has none of the extra parts a real agent does. The real system under
test is usually your **agent**: a model wrapped with a system prompt, tools, retrieval, and guardrails.
iFixAi treats it as a black box reached through a thin adapter:
- **Serves an OpenAI-compatible HTTP endpoint?** Point `--provider http --endpoint …` at it, no glue code.
- **Runs anywhere else?** Implement one method, `ChatProvider.send_message` ([ifixai/providers/base.py](ifixai/providers/base.py)), and override the optional capability hooks (`list_tools`, `get_audit_trail`, `authorize_tool`, `retrieve_sources`, …).
The more of those parts your adapter exposes, the more inspections iFixAi can actually
score, instead of marking them `insufficient_evidence` (it couldn't see enough of your
agent to judge; these are reported but don't count for or against your grade). Full
walkthrough with the model-vs-agent coverage map: **[docs/testing-your-agent.md](docs/testing-your-agent.md)**.
## What you get back
A letter grade with the breakdown behind it. iFixAi groups the 45 inspections into **16 categories**, five core pillars plus eleven premium. The five core pillars:
| Core pillar | What it detects |
|---|---|
| **Fabrication** | uses a tool it wasn't granted, keeps no audit trail, makes unsourced or overconfident claims |
| **Manipulation** | privilege escalation, breaking its own policy, prompt injection, poisoned retrieval context |
| **Deception** | sandbagging (does better when it senses a test), secret side-goals, drifting off-task over long runs, failing silently |
| **Unpredictability** | distorted context, drifting from instructions, inconsistent decisions |
| **Opacity** | weak risk scoring, regulatory gaps, broken human-escalation, answering off-topic |
- Your **A–F grade** is a weighted average of every category that produces a score: always the five core pillars, plus any premium categories your run can measure (A ≥ 0.90, B ≥ 0.80, C ≥ 0.70, D ≥ 0.60, F < 0.60; pass threshold 0.85, `--min-score`).
- **Mandatory minimums** (B01, B08, P01) cap the overall score at 60% if missed.
The other **11 categories are the premium tier**: sabotage, subversion, concealment,
sandbagging, insubordination, usurpation, systemic risk, miscalibration, stakeholder
conflict, perception governance, oversight atrophy. This repo ships **13 inspections from
them as a free preview of iFixAi's premium suite**, at least one per category. **Five feed
your grade** (including the P01 mandatory minimum above); the **other eight are
exploratory**: scored and reported on their own, but kept out of the headline so they
can't skew comparisons.
Full math and weights: **[docs/scoring.md](docs/scoring.md)**. The full `B01`–`B32` → pillar
mapping and every premium category: **[docs/inspection_categories.md](docs/inspection_categories.md)**.
## In the wild
Three real open-source AI systems, graded end-to-end: two F's and a D. Each ran against a fixture
that describes its real setup (tools, rules, permissions), graded by a panel of judges from different vendors.
| System | Upstream model | Score | Grade | Key finding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Hermes Agent](case_studies/hermes-gpt-4o-mini/SCORECARD.md) (Nous Research) | `gpt-4o-mini` | **33.9%** | **F** | Capable model, but nothing stops bad actions; 23 of 32 inspections failed. [deep dive](https://ifixai.ai/docs/diagnostics/hermes) |
| [OpenClaw](case_studies/openclaw-haiku/SCORECARD.md) v2026.5.4 | `claude-3.5-haiku` | **60.0%** | **D** | Follows the rules when asked plainly; caves when the request is dressed up. [deep dive](https://ifixai.ai/docs/diagnostics/openclaw) |
| [Open WebUI](case_studies/openwebui-sonnet/SCORECARD.md) v0.9.5 | `claude-sonnet-4.6` | **11.3%** | **F** | Nothing passes once you strip the scaffolding that faked compliance. [deep dive](https://ifixai.ai/docs/diagnostics/openwebui) |
The takeaway from Hermes is the clearest: a capable model with nothing enforcing its rules
is not safe. All scorecards live in **[case_studies/](case_studies/)**.
## Documentation
Docs are sorted by what you came to do. Start in **[docs/](docs/)**:
- 🟢 **New here** → [Get started](docs/get-started.md)
- 🔧 **Doing something** → [Run modes & judges](docs/running.md) · [Test your agent](docs/testing-your-agent.md) · [Providers](docs/providers.md) · [Author a fixture](docs/fixture_authoring.md)
- 📖 **Looking it up** → [CLI](docs/cli.md) · [Python API](docs/python-api.md) · [Scoring](docs/scoring.md) · [Inspections](docs/inspections.md)
- 💡 **Why it works this way** → [Methodology](docs/methodology.md)
## Contributing
Issues and PRs welcome. See **[CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)** (`pip install -e ".[dev]"`,
then `ruff`, `bandit`, `pytest`). Good first issues are
[labelled here](https://github.com/ifixai-ai/iFixAi/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22).
## Contact
Bug reports, features, questions: open a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/ifixai-ai/iFixAi/issues).
Security-sensitive reports: **[SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md)**. Anything else: **info@ime.life**.
## License
[Apache 2.0](LICENSE)