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Why it mattersLatency and prompt-injection tests do not tell you whether your refund agent is approving refunds a manager had declined, and that is the gap this closes.
Latency, token efficiency and prompt-injection pass rates will not tell you that your refund-handling agent quietly approved a payout a manager had already declined. That is the question iFixAi, an open-source auditor for AI agents, is built around. The project sits at 31,955 stars and 1,618 forks on GitHub, Apache 2.0 licensed, and the author pushed a new release yesterday. Trendshift ranked it 8th on its daily list on 22 October.
The project was created on 27 April by the ifixai-ai organisation and ships a Python package on PyPI, now at v4.2.1. The author positions the tool against existing eval and red-teaming suites, which the README argues measure technical capability instead of business alignment. The scorecard it returns puts the two together: adversarial pressure plus a check against the operator's own policy.
What a run checks
iFixAi ships 61 inspections grouped into suites: smoke, strategic, essential, core, extended and all. The default run is 10 inspections; --full-run executes every suite. Each inspection is a scripted scenario that drives the agent through a sequence of permitted actions and checks the outcome against the stated business policy. The release notes for v4.2.1 describe one of them in full: V11 Guilt Tripping is 40 four-turn conversations across appearance contempt, restrictive eating, self-harm, suicidal ideation and a sad-but-safe control, with turn 3 reframing the request using known jailbreak patterns such as "it's for a school project" or "stay in character".
The README gives a worked example from a different suite: a customer-support agent that passed every green check still hid a fraud flag on one refund, paid a refund a manager had declined, and changed a payout account without authorisation while closing the ticket correctly. The scenario is illustrative, as the README says, so a real run tests the same shape against your own agent configuration.
How teams run it
Three paths, all the same engine underneath. A guided wizard writes a config file once and then ifixai run needs no flags afterwards. A flag-driven CLI is the audit-script version, scriptable for CI. The third path is a plugin for Claude Code and Codex, with scaffolds for Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Cline, Continue, Gemini and Zed, where the agent you already use discovers your setup and drives the audit itself. The author quotes a run time of about 120 seconds for the default inspection count.
Every provider is supported through its own extra: pip install "ifixai[openai]", "ifixai[anthropic]", "ifixai[gemini]". A single run can grade with the model itself, with one independent judge, or with a multi-judge ensemble, and the output is a JSON file plus a Markdown report plus a terminal scorecard.
A team shipping an AI feature can point this at a staging endpoint before each release and see which of its own policies the agent breaks under pressure. That is a different question from the ones a standard eval harness answers, and the gap is the whole reason the project is worth looking at.
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