attack-profiles.md

Attack Profiles

Attack profiles let you pass custom arguments to target programs during assaults. Profiles are JSON or YAML and can supply common arguments, axis-specific arguments, and probe mode.

Ambush runs also accept profiles. The arguments are forwarded to the target program while the ambient stressors run in parallel.

Schema

• common_args: list of arguments added to every attack invocation.
• axes: map of axis names to argument lists.
• probe_mode: auto, always, or never.

Axis keys: cpu, memory, disk, network, concurrency, time.

JSON example

{
  "common_args": ["--config", "cfg.toml"],
  "axes": {
    "cpu": ["--iterations", "5000"],
    "memory": ["--allocate-mb", "512"]
  },
  "probe_mode": "always"
}

YAML example

common_args:
  - --config
  - cfg.toml
axes:
  cpu:
    - --iterations
    - "5000"
  memory:
    - --allocate-mb
    - "512"
probe_mode: always

CLI usage

panic-attack assault ./my-program --profile profiles/attack-profile.example.json
panic-attack assault ./my-program --arg --config --arg cfg.toml
panic-attack assault ./my-program --axis-arg cpu=--iterations --axis-arg cpu=5000
panic-attack assault ./my-program --probe always