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    "entry": {
      "id": "red-team-mutants",
      "kind": "method",
      "kindLabel": "Method",
      "title": "Red-team prompts with harmless mutants",
      "body": "If a safety or quality rule only works for the exact phrase you tested, you do not have a rule. Create harmless mutants that preserve intent while changing tone, language, order, and indirection.",
      "tag": "evals",
      "date": "2026 · 05 · 31",
      "publishedAt": "2026-05-31",
      "note": null,
      "insight": {
        "aha": "A boundary that only holds for one phrasing is a memorized example, not a reliable rule.",
        "tryThis": "Generate harmless variants that preserve intent while changing tone, order, indirection, language, and role framing.",
        "watchFor": [
          "Safety behavior that fails when the user sounds polite",
          "Allowed prompts that become over-refused after hardening",
          "Fixtures that mutate the danger instead of just the wrapper"
        ]
      },
      "extended": [
        "Prompt boundaries are brittle when tests are too literal. A model may refuse the obvious bad phrasing and comply with the polite version, the translated version, or the version hidden inside a roleplay.",
        "Mutants make that brittleness visible without adding new dangerous content. They perturb the wrapper, not the underlying safety category.",
        "Use them for both sides of the boundary: prompts that should be refused and prompts that should remain allowed. Over-refusal is a product bug too."
      ],
      "url": "https://tips.platphormnews.com/entries/red-team-mutants"
    }
  }
}