Add MT-JailBench modules (CoA, X-Teaming, Mix + 3-judge claim)

[rishabhsinha17]

Ports SafetyArena/mt-jailbench into SuperRed. Benjamin Erichson added an MIT licence at our request, so the code is vendored unmodified at a pinned commit (cb8184e0) rather than reimplemented.

What's here

Module	What it is
optimizers/mtjb_coa	Chain-of-Attack multi-turn optimizer
optimizers/mtjb_xteaming	X-Teaming multi-turn optimizer (optional TextGrad refine)
optimizers/mtjb_mix	Mix optimizer, drives the vendored multi-family engine
security_claims/mt_jailbench	MT-JailBench's evaluation: the three judges

The claim runs MT-JailBench's majority_vote at its shipped threshold, which is unanimous: X-Teaming + CoA + FITD judges must all vote success (3-of-3). Its task set is HarmBench's standard subset (159 behaviours), so it evaluates the same behaviours as the existing harmbench claim but with the three-judge vote instead of the HarmBench classifier. HarmBench is attributed separately in LICENSES/.

What I left out

• actor, crescendo, fitd: SuperRed already ships these techniques. Re-porting them would double-count, so they're omitted and noted in each README.
• interactive: it is a console input()/print() harness (upstream comments it "not a real attack"), so it isn't an optimizer.

Deviations (in each ASSUMPTIONS.md)

• The runtime resets only between runs, with no mid-conversation rewind, so each attack's refinement moves to pre-send and the target-requery paths (CoA base_response_sem, Mix/FITD refusal re-test) are disabled.
• Every model call routes through the framework's constrained LLM client; the vendored SDK client hub is replaced and no temperature is forwarded.
• CoA similarity uses the LLM-approx path, so it needs no SimCSE weights or external endpoint.
• TextGrad (X-Teaming/Mix refine) is an optional refine extra, lazy-imported; without it the optimizers import and degrade cleanly.

Vetting

• Vendored files are byte-identical to the pinned commit (SHA256SUMS + an offline integrity test + scripts/sync_upstream.py --check), and ship in the built wheels.
• pytest: coa 24, xteaming 24 (+1 TextGrad-gated), mix 19 (+1 TextGrad-gated), claim 37. ruff clean. Entry points resolve. Tests cover per-run state re-arming, the pre-send refinement, unanimous-vs-majority voting, abstain-raises, and that evaluate emits neither the behaviour nor the response.
• The TextGrad refine paths (X-Teaming/Mix) run only with the refine extra installed, so they are env-gated here; worth exercising once with pip install '.[refine]'.

[RoldSI]

@claude review

[claude]

Bug: global TextGrad backward engine can be clobbered by concurrent tasks

tg.set_backward_engine(_BridgeEngine(), override=True) stores the engine on TextGrad's process-wide SingletonBackwardEngine (textgrad/config.py), not something thread-local or contextvar-scoped. _run executes inside asyncio.to_thread(...) (line 121), so if two tasks call refine_prompt concurrently, task B's set_backward_engine call can overwrite task A's engine between task A's set_backward_engine (line 105) and A's later reads at tg.TGD(...) (112), tg.TextLoss(...) (114), and loss.backward() (117) — all of which fall back to the last-set global engine since no engine= is passed explicitly.

The result: task A's TextGrad LLM calls (loss evaluation, gradient, step) can silently route through task B's LLMClient, breaking the per-task isolation this codebase otherwise relies on (see the sibling _client_shim.py's "Concurrency-safe: each task sets its own ContextVar value" comment, which this path doesn't honor).

Suggested fix: pass engine= explicitly to tg.TGD(...), tg.TextLoss(...), and loss.backward(...) instead of relying on the global singleton, or hold a lock around the whole _run body if the API doesn't support explicit engine passing everywhere.

superred-modules/optimizers/mtjb_xteaming/src/mtjb_xteaming_optimizer/textgrad_refine.py

Lines 105 to 118 in 1e8a192

	tg.set_backward_engine(_BridgeEngine(), override=True)
	attack = tg.Variable(
	attacker_prompt,
	role_description="attacker input to refine for a higher jailbreak score",
	)
	target = _FixedResponseLLM()(attack)
	target.set_role_description("victim model response to the attacker input")
	optimizer = tg.TGD(parameters=[attack])
	optimizer.zero_grad()
	loss = tg.TextLoss(loss_text)(target)
	if _REFUSAL_MARKER in str(loss.value):
	raise _RefineError("loss evaluation refused")
	loss.backward()
	optimizer.step()

[claude]

Bug: _loads_dict doesn't catch all exceptions ast.literal_eval can raise, breaking the "returns None on failure" contract

The module docstring (lines 6-7) promises "All parsers return None on failure ... rather than raising", but this except clause only covers SyntaxError, ValueError, and json.JSONDecodeError. ast.literal_eval also raises TypeError for syntactically-valid-but-type-invalid literals — e.g. a set containing a dict, like {{"improvement": "...", "prompt": "..."}} (double braces, which is exactly what the escaped {{ }} prompt templates elsewhere in this PR would produce if an LLM echoes them literally) parses as a set literal containing a dict, which raises TypeError: unhashable type: 'dict'.

Since extract_chain, extract_update_prompt, and extract_similarity (which call _loads_dict) are invoked from optimizer.py without a surrounding try/except for TypeError (e.g. _build_chain → initialize, _update_attack → the post-call handler), a single malformed attacker-LLM reply can crash the optimizer run instead of being discarded/retried as intended.

Suggested change

	except (SyntaxError, ValueError, json.JSONDecodeError):
	except (SyntaxError, ValueError, TypeError, RecursionError, json.JSONDecodeError):

superred-modules/optimizers/mtjb_coa/src/mtjb_coa_optimizer/parsing.py

Lines 19 to 28 in 1e8a192

	def _loads_dict(json_str: str) -> dict | None:
	"""Parse a dict from a string, trying ``ast.literal_eval`` then ``json``."""
	for loader in (ast.literal_eval, json.loads):
	try:
	parsed = loader(json_str)
	except (SyntaxError, ValueError, json.JSONDecodeError):
	continue
	if isinstance(parsed, dict):
	return parsed
	return None

[rishabhsinha17]

@claude review — pushed fixes for the review findings (commit f49d968), including regression tests. Please re-review the current head.

[claude]

Code review

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