The Problem
The "Happy Path" Fallacy: Current AI development tools focus on getting an agent to work once. Developers tweak prompts until they get a correct answer, declare victory, and ship.
The Reality: LLMs are non-deterministic. An agent that works on Monday with temperature=0.7 might fail on Tuesday. Production agents face real users who make typos, get aggressive, and attempt prompt injections. Real traffic exposes failures that happy-path testing misses.
The Void:
- Observability Tools (LangSmith) tell you after the agent failed in production
- Eval Libraries (RAGAS) focus on academic scores rather than system reliability
- CI Pipelines lack chaos testing — agents ship untested against adversarial inputs
- Missing Link: A tool that actively attacks the agent to prove robustness before deployment
The Solution
Flakestorm is a chaos testing layer for production AI agents. It applies Chaos Engineering principles to systematically test how your agents behave under adversarial inputs before real users encounter them.
Instead of running one test case, Flakestorm takes a single "Golden Prompt", generates adversarial mutations (semantic variations, noise injection, hostile tone, prompt injections), runs them against your agent, and calculates a Robustness Score. Run it before deploy, in CI, or against production-like environments.
"If it passes Flakestorm, it won't break in Production."
Production-First by Design
Flakestorm is designed for teams already running AI agents in production. Most production agents use cloud LLM APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, etc.) and face real traffic, real users, and real abuse patterns.
Why local LLMs exist in the open source version:
- Fast experimentation and proofs-of-concept
- CI-friendly testing without external dependencies
- Transparent, extensible chaos engine
Why production chaos should mirror production reality:
Production agents run on cloud infrastructure, process real user inputs, and scale dynamically. Chaos testing should reflect this reality—testing against the same infrastructure, scale, and patterns your agents face in production.
The cloud version removes operational friction: no local model setup, no environment configuration, scalable mutation runs, shared dashboards, and team collaboration. Open source proves the value; cloud delivers production-grade chaos engineering.
Who Flakestorm Is For
- Teams shipping AI agents to production — Catch failures before users do
- Engineers running agents behind APIs — Test against real-world abuse patterns
- Teams already paying for LLM APIs — Reduce regressions and production incidents
- CI/CD pipelines — Automated reliability gates before deployment
Flakestorm is built for production-grade agents handling real traffic. While it works great for exploration and hobby projects, it's designed to catch the failures that matter when agents are deployed at scale.
