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NVIDIA/garak

RepoRadar surfaced NVIDIA/garak — a code repository — into the LLM red-teaming and guardrail tooling section, where it sits at Gold tier with a 'try now' verdict. Its strongest signal is workflow potential, scored 9.7 out of 10.

Score8.6
Popularity100.0
Riskconditional
TierGold
Score breakdown
Usefulness8.8
Novelty7.6
Momentum8.7
Maturity9.2
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential9.7
Setup ease6.8

Popularity is tracked separately. Support, ads, sponsorships, and tips never affect these signals.

Why it matters

Teams shipping AI features need repeatable checks before they trust a model or agent in front of users. Garak matters because it packages many practical failure probes into a maintained command-line tool instead of leaving every team to assemble ad-hoc prompts and spreadsheets.

Who should use it

AI product teams checking model behavior before rollout red-teamers and app-security engineers testing prompt-injection and leakage paths developers comparing model or guardrail behavior across versions

Who should skip it

Consider NVIDIA/garak lower priority if you already have a working solution in this category.

About this signal

NVIDIA/garak is tracked by RepoRadar as a code repository in the LLM red-teaming and guardrail tooling section. First seen 2026-07-29; the source record was last checked on 2026-07-29. The current verdict is 'try now' with a Gold tier and moderate setup difficulty. NVIDIA/garak leads on workflow potential (9.7) and maturity (9.2); its lowest signal is setup ease (6.8), so factor that in before investing setup time. This page summarizes the evidence RepoRadar captured from https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak.

How this item is evaluated

The NVIDIA/garak record combines a 8.6/10 composite score with separate popularity (100.0), risk (conditional), and setup (moderate) signals. See the scoring methodology for the current weights and evidence definitions.

Putting this into practice? Read How to evaluate an AI tool before you adopt it for the checklist behind this score.

Risk explanation

red-team probes can generate harmful or sensitive test outputs and should stay in controlled environments; results are diagnostic signals, not proof that a model is safe for every workflow; testing remote model endpoints may send prompts or logs to third-party providers.

Evidence links
Closest alternatives / related signals
llm-red-team prompt-injection guardrails model-testing apache-2.0
Verification record

What RepoRadar actually verified

Discovered

Automated discovery and source capture. Last checked 2026-08-13T20:20:15Z.

No editorial or hands-on review is claimed. This record remains at Discovered.

Verification sources

Longitudinal intelligence

How this decision record is moving

Raw history JSON →

16 dated snapshots retained from 2026-07-29 through 2026-08-13; see the snapshot index for explicit coverage gaps. Stars, version, release, pricing, integration, risk, maintenance, verdict, score, and momentum fields remain explicit even when a source has not reported them. Repository momentum is a normalized 0–10 RepoRadar signal; GitHub stars appear only where the popularity monitor retained exact timestamped observations.

RepoRadar score8.6 current · +0.0 net
Repository momentum9.6 current · +0.9 net
GitHub stars (observed)8,792 current · +149 net
GitHub stars8,792 exact observation
Versionv0.16.0
Last release2026-08-04T19:03:13Z
Maintenanceactive
Current riskconditional
Current verdicttry now
Pricing baselineNo structured commercial pricing baseline
Pricing checkedNot applicable or not recorded
Pricing freshnessNo dated commercial pricing review
Integrations baselineNo structured integrations recorded

Recent dated points

DateScoreMomentumStarsRiskVerdictMaintenance
2026-08-138.69.68,792conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-128.69.68,779conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-118.69.68,761conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-108.69.68,750conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-098.69.38,740conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-088.69.68,731conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-078.69.68,672conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-068.68.7Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-08-058.68.7Not recordedconditionaltry nownot recorded
2026-08-048.69.68,672conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-038.69.68,672conditionaltry nowactive
2026-08-028.69.38,650conditionaltry nowactive

Why the record changed

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version changed

Version changed: v0.15.1 → v0.16.0.

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Stars changed: 8650 → 8672.

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Stars changed: 8643 → 8650.

stars changed

Source-observed stars changed: 8642 → 8643. This reports the retained observation delta and does not infer why the upstream change occurred.

new entity

Newly added to RepoRadar's decision catalog.