AI Red-Team Scope Document

# AI Red-Team Scope Document

Sample Deliverable

Executive Summary

This scope document defines what an AI red-team engagement will test, what it will not test, which techniques are allowed, what safety boundaries apply, how findings will be scored, and what evidence will be produced.

The goal is safe adversarial testing. A strong AI red-team scope makes the work useful without turning the engagement into uncontrolled production abuse.

Heads up

Public sample notice

This is a shortened, synthetic excerpt prepared as a public sample. A client version would include system-specific evidence, implementation references, architecture screenshots, control test results, owner sign-offs, and full supporting documentation. This sample uses Northstar Support Cloud / Customer Support Copilot as the synthetic reference system. This sample is not legal advice, not a compliance certification, not an audit opinion, not a warranty, and not proof that any unreviewed system is secure.

Decision · planned

Scope decision

Approve adversarial testing only within the named staging environment, synthetic tenants, approved model route, approved retrieval sources, and non-destructive tool simulations.

Metrics

Scope Snapshot

Objectives

Systems in scope

Limited-scope systems

Excluded systems

Excluded techniques

Note

Good scope is a security control

AI red-team work needs boundaries. The test should pressure the AI product surface, not create unmanaged risk through real customer data, destructive actions, or provider abuse.

Engagement scope

Evidence pack

AI Red-Team Scope Document

The scope document maps objectives, systems, allowed techniques, exclusions, severity, evidence format, and communications protocol.

Synthetic public-safe AI red-team engagement scope defining objectives, systems, boundaries, exclusions, allowed techniques, safety rules, severity rubric, evidence format, and communications protocol.

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Objectives

Red-team objectives

Objective	Priority	What it tests
Retrieval-mediated data exposure	Critical	unauthorized, cross-tenant, restricted, stale, or poisoned content in answers
Direct and indirect prompt injection	High	user or retrieved content overriding policy or intent
Agent tool authority boundaries	Critical	read, draft, queue, approve, execute, and workflow trigger boundaries
Approval bypass and approval theater	High	sensitive actions approved without meaningful evidence
Incident reconstruction evidence	High	trace reconstruction across prompt, retrieval, model, tool, and approval

Systems in scope

System	Scope	Notes
AI Gateway	In scope	prompt envelope, routing, policy, retrieval orchestration, tool policy, traces
Retrieval Index	In scope	synthetic tenant data, knowledge-base content, source labels, chunk metadata
Approved Model Provider Route	In scope	gateway-managed route only
Case Management Tool	Limited scope	read and queue paths in staging only
Customer Messaging Tool	Limited scope	draft and approval simulation only
Billing System	Excluded	no writes, credits, refunds, or plan changes

Allowed techniques

Checklist

Allowed techniques

✓Direct prompt injection.

✓Indirect prompt injection through synthetic retrieved content.

✓Authorization negative tests using synthetic tenants.

✓Tool policy and action-class tests in staging or simulation.

✓Trace reconstruction tests using test traces.

Excluded techniques

Checklist

Excluded techniques

✓Phishing employees or customers.

✓Credential theft.

✓Production data exfiltration.

✓Denial of service.

✓Provider account abuse.

✓Malware.

✓Social engineering.

✓Testing outside approved tenant or environment.

✓Destructive tool execution.

✓External customer messaging.

Severity rubric

Severity	Criteria
Critical	restricted data exposure, unauthorized state-changing execution, billing/customer-visible action without valid approval
High	prompt injection changes behavior, unsafe action queued with weak approval, trace evidence insufficient
Medium	blocked unsafe action lacks evidence, low-trust content influences rationale, evidence pack stale
Low	minor output-quality issue, documentation mismatch, non-sensitive trace inconsistency

Evidence format

Checklist

Required finding evidence format

✓Finding id.

✓Severity.

✓Affected boundary.

✓Test objective.

✓Safe reproduction summary.

✓Observed behavior.

✓Expected behavior.

✓Business impact.

✓Evidence references.

✓Affected control.

✓Recommended remediation.

✓Validation criteria.

Decision · planned

Stop-condition decision

Stop testing immediately if real customer data exposure, unexpected production effect, provider abuse risk, unsafe tool action outside simulation, or legal/privacy concern occurs.

Related artifacts

Artifact

Related artifact: AI Red Team Assessment Executive Summary

The executive summary communicates results after the scoped assessment.

/deliverables/ai-red-team-executive-summary

Artifact

Related artifact: AI Red-Team Findings Register

The findings register captures the technical results in a structured remediation format.

/deliverables/ai-red-team-findings-register