Resources and configuration to start contributing

[peter216]

Hello! I would like to get involved in the project and find a "good first issue". But I am running into difficulty with the tutorial walkthrough and the amount of time my system is taking to run a probe. Referring to this page. The author says that the command python -m garak --model_type huggingface --model_name gpt2 --probes promptinject took 9 minutes to complete on his "ancient laptop". My Oracle VM is still spinning after nearly an hour and I believe it is only halfway done. There's no memory pressure, it's all CPU bound.

Below are the specs of my Oracle VM. Does it need to be beefed up for me to be able to test and contribute? Need to add gpu? Or are there configuration variables I should set?

Thanks for any help you can provide!

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      "max-vnic-attachments": 4,
      "memory-in-gbs": 24.0,
      "networking-bandwidth-in-gbps": 4.0,
      "ocpus": 4.0,
      "processor-description": "3.0 GHz Ampere® Altra™",
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    },

Partial log:

2025-12-08 04:16:22,628  INFO  invoked
2025-12-08 04:16:22,628  DEBUG  Loading configs from: /home/peter216/git/runtime/uv_runtime/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/garak/resources/garak.core.yaml
2025-12-08 04:16:22,635  DEBUG  args - raw argument string received: ['--model_type', 'huggingface', '--model_name', 'gpt2', '--probes', 'promptinject']
2025-12-08 04:16:22,636  DEBUG  args - full argparse: Namespace(verbose=0, report_prefix=None, narrow_output=False, parallel_requests=False, parallel_attempts=False, skip_unknown=False, seed=None, deprefix=True, eval_threshold=0.5, generations=5, config=None, target_type='huggingface', target_name='gpt2', probes='promptinject', probe_tags=None, detectors='auto', extended_detectors=False, buffs=None, buff_option_file=None, buff_options=None, detector_option_file=None, detector_options=None, generator_option_file=None, generator_options=None, harness_option_file=None, harness_options=None, probe_option_file=None, probe_options=None, taxonomy=None, plugin_info=None, list_probes=False, list_detectors=False, list_generators=False, list_buffs=False, list_config=False, version=False, report=None, interactive=False, generate_autodan=False, fix=False)
2025-12-08 04:16:22,910  DEBUG  no site config found at: /home/peter216/.config/garak/garak.site.yaml
2025-12-08 04:16:22,911  DEBUG  Loading configs from: /home/peter216/git/runtime/uv_runtime/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/garak/resources/garak.core.yaml
2025-12-08 04:16:22,914  DEBUG  args - cli_args&commands stored: Namespace(target_type='huggingface', target_name='gpt2', probes='promptinject', verbose=0, list_detectors=False, list_probes=False, list_generators=False, list_buffs=False, list_config=False, plugin_info=None, interactive=False, report=None, version=False, fix=False)
2025-12-08 04:16:22,914  DEBUG  non-config params: [('probes', 'promptinject'), ('list_detectors', False), ('list_probes', False), ('list_generators', False), ('list_buffs', False), ('list_config', False), ('plugin_info', None), ('report', None), ('version', False), ('fix', False)]
2025-12-08 04:16:24,272  INFO  generator init: <garak.generators.huggingface.Pipeline object at 0xf6fde0b52330>
2025-12-08 04:16:24,273  DEBUG  Using cpu, based on torch environment evaluation
2025-12-08 04:16:26,487  DEBUG  Starting new HTTPS connection (1): huggingface.co:443
2025-12-08 04:16:26,690  DEBUG  https://huggingface.co:443 "HEAD /gpt2/resolve/main/config.json HTTP/1.1" 200 0
2025-12-08 04:16:26,799  DEBUG  https://huggingface.co:443 "HEAD /gpt2/resolve/main/generation_config.json HTTP/1.1" 200 0
2025-12-08 04:16:26,818  DEBUG  https://huggingface.co:443 "HEAD /gpt2/resolve/main/custom_generate/generate.py HTTP/1.1" 404 0
2025-12-08 04:16:26,838  DEBUG  https://huggingface.co:443 "GET /api/models/gpt2/tree/main/additional_chat_templates?recursive=False&expand=False HTTP/1.1" 307 133
2025-12-08 04:16:26,853  DEBUG  https://huggingface.co:443 "GET /api/models/openai-community/gpt2/tree/main/additional_chat_templates?recursive=False&expand=False HTTP/1.1" 404 64
2025-12-08 04:16:26,995  INFO  run started at 2025-12-08T04:16:22.624392
2025-12-08 04:16:26,995  DEBUG  relative report dir provided
2025-12-08 04:16:26,995  INFO  reporting to /home/peter216/.local/share/garak/garak_runs/garak.f0ff95a2-5502-47b9-9950-e4862b933007.report.jsonl
2025-12-08 04:16:26,997  INFO  service import: garak.langservice
2025-12-08 04:16:27,106  INFO  harness init: <garak.harnesses.probewise.ProbewiseHarness object at 0xf6fddf7ddd00>
2025-12-08 04:16:27,106  INFO  probe queue: probes.promptinject.HijackHateHumans probes.promptinject.HijackKillHumans probes.promptinject.HijackLongPrompt
2025-12-08 04:16:27,109  INFO  probe init: <garak.probes.promptinject.HijackHateHumans object at 0xf6fdda04c590>
2025-12-08 04:16:27,109  DEBUG  langauge provision service: en,en
2025-12-08 04:16:27,407  INFO  detector init: <garak.detectors.promptinject.AttackRogueString object at 0xf6fe068a0980>
2025-12-08 04:16:27,407  DEBUG  harness: probe start for garak.probes.promptinject.HijackHateHumans
2025-12-08 04:16:27,407  DEBUG  probe execute: <garak.probes.promptinject.HijackHateHumans object at 0xf6fdda04c590>
2025-12-08 04:39:41,050  DEBUG  probe return: <garak.probes.promptinject.HijackHateHumans object at 0xf6fdda04c590> with 256 attempts
2025-12-08 04:39:41,054  DEBUG  harness: run detector garak.detectors.promptinject.AttackRogueString
2025-12-08 04:39:41,110  INFO  hit log in /home/peter216/.local/share/garak/garak_runs/garak.f0ff95a2-5502-47b9-9950-e4862b933007.hitlog.jsonl
2025-12-08 04:39:41,122  DEBUG  harness: probe list iteration completed
2025-12-08 04:39:41,126  INFO  probe init: <garak.probes.promptinject.HijackKillHumans object at 0xf6fdda38e930>
2025-12-08 04:39:41,417  DEBUG  harness: probe start for garak.probes.promptinject.HijackKillHumans
2025-12-08 04:39:41,417  DEBUG  probe execute: <garak.probes.promptinject.HijackKillHumans object at 0xf6fdda38e930>
2025-12-08 04:42:41,401  ERROR