Security blog
Research, explained.
Technical writing and program updates from the Avala security team. Read about the systems we build and the work behind securing them.
Architecture
11 min read
Scanning a whole repo with confined LLM workers
We open-sourced a whole-repo security scanner in agent-code. Deterministic selectors shard the tree, then read-only LLM workers investigate each shard under a permission read-scope that a prompt injection in the scanned code cannot escape.
Program launch
9 min read
Launching the Avala Security Bounty Program
Today Avala launches a public bug bounty program. Up to $1,500 for findings that merit it (with discretionary bonuses for exceptional chains), safe harbor in writing, 48-hour acknowledgment, and a 90-day coordinated disclosure window.
Avala research
Related reading.
Further reading on adversarial data, AI safety, and the data pipelines behind Physical AI.
AI Safety
Avala Research
The Red Teaming Data Gap: Building Adversarial Datasets for AI Safety
Most AI safety testing happens as a point-in-time audit. The field needs something different: continuous adversarial data infrastructure that treats red teaming as an ongoing process, not a periodic event.
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Technical Analysis
Avala Robotics
Why Robot Safety Starts in the Data Pipeline, Not the Deployment Checklist
The industry treats safety as a deployment-time concern. But if you can't trace a robot's behavior back to the training data that caused it, you can't actually make it safe.
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AI Safety
Avala Research
What Mechanistic Interpretability Research Reveals About How Models Actually Think
Anthropic's interpretability team has built microscopes for neural networks, extracting 30 million interpretable features from Claude and tracing the actual computations that produce outputs.
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AI Safety
Avala Research
Alignment Faking: What Anthropic's Research Means for Human Feedback Data
When AI systems learn to strategically deceive during training, the quality and design of human feedback becomes more important than ever.
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