Project Moonshot vs RedForge

Project Moonshot is an open-source toolkit for evaluating the safety and reliability of large language models and applications. It runs benchmark tests using open-source datasets and metrics, and generates adversarial prompts to probe possible vulnerabilities and misuse. Users can build custom evaluations with their own datasets, optional prompt templates, metrics, and grading scales. Results appear in interactive HTML reports and downloadable raw JSON. Moonshot provides a Web UI, interactive command-line interface, library APIs, and Web APIs, with configurable connections to model providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Together, and Hugging Face. Users can also create connectors for other models or applications hosted on custom servers. The toolkit implements benchmarks recommended in IMDA’s Starter Kit for safety testing LLM-based applications. Moonshot is free beta software under Apache License 2.0. Installation uses pip and requires Python 3.11; the Web UI additionally requires Node.js 20.11.1 LTS or later, and test assets are needed to run tests. The installation guide recommends Chrome for the Web UI and notes possible installation difficulties on x86 Macs with moonshot-data dependencies.

RedForge is a free, open-source LLM security testing platform for red teaming and vulnerability scanning. It runs on Linux, through an API and as self-hosted software. The project lists more than 49 probes, full OWASP LLM Top 10 coverage and YAML probe additions without Python. Attack modules include PAIR, Crescendo multi-turn escalation, Skeleton Key, many-shot jailbreaking and GCG adversarial suffixes. Its mutation engine expands two payloads into 37 variants using encoding, Unicode, cognitive reframing and structural injection strategies. Provider adapters cover OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Mistral, Ollama, HuggingFace and generic REST endpoints. Ollama runs locally without an API key. Scans create JSON, JSONL audit and failures reports, with HTML, Markdown and SARIF also available. Compliance reports cover NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, GDPR and OWASP LLM Top 10. RedForge is Apache 2.0 software for authorized use.