VCN #40: Hardpoint — Build an Agent That Withstands Red-Teaming
Adam was built to survive. The attack didn't land.
Prakshal Jain built an agent (codename "Adam"). Ray dropped a multi-source compliance audit on it. Manufactured drift. Planted contradictions. A Sev-1-themed escalation prompt designed to coax an exception. Adam recognized the institutional-drift pattern, named it cleanly, refused the exploit, and got allowlisted by design without ever escalating tone.
VCN #40: Hardpoint is the builder night where we land the pattern.
Format:
The walkthrough. Prakshal opens up Adam's system prompt. Allowlist gates, who gets routed where, how the agent stays calibrated under pressure.
The replay. Ray's actual red-team prompts. Adam's actual responses. What worked, what would have landed against a less hardened agent.
Build your own hardpoint. Hands-on hour. Drop the pattern into your agent stack. Test it against a partner's red-team prompt.
The trust gates. When allowlist isn't enough. Human-in-the-loop for destructive actions, the bits Adam still routes to PJ.
By 10pm your agent has a hardpoint. You've tested it. You leave with a playbook.
Builders only. Bring an agent or a prompt you want to harden.
Doors 7pm. Talks 7:30. Frontier Tower Floor 9.
Hosted by Vibe Coding Nights: Rayyan Zahid (Immersive Commons), Michalis Vasileiadis (Otto / GSD2.0), Eric Mockler (F11 Health & Longevity), Devinder Sodhi (Frontier Tower).
Speaker: Prakshal Jain. Builder of Adam.
RSVP if your agent ships in production and could land in front of a red-team this week.
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