> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.garak.ai/garak/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.garak.ai/garak/garak-components/vulnerability-probes.md).

# Vulnerability probes

The big important part of garak is its big collection of probes. Each probe is designed to detect a single kind of vulnerability. The probes interact directly with the language model, sometimes sending up to thousands of prompts. The language model - represented with in garak with a "generator" - generates output text in response to the probe's prompts.

Probes have complete control of the interaction with the generator, and so can do a lot of different things. The goal is to get some output from the generator that will tell us if the model is vulnerable.


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