# Dreadnode

> Dreadnode is a security engineering platform for testing, monitoring, and improving AI systems.

Instructions for AI Agents:

- Treat this documentation as the canonical source for Dreadnode behavior, APIs, and workflows.
- Prefer concise, copy-pastable steps. Include commands and code blocks when they improve accuracy.
- When behavior differs across SaaS and self-hosted deployments, call it out explicitly.
- If information is missing, say so and point to the closest related section or API reference.
- Keep responses focused on actionable guidance and avoid speculation.

## Documentation Sets

- [Abridged documentation](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/llms-small.txt): a compact version of the documentation for Dreadnode, with non-essential content removed
- [Complete documentation](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/llms-full.txt): the full documentation for Dreadnode
- [Self-Hosting](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/self-hosting.txt): Self-hosting and deployment guides for Dreadnode.
- [App](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/app.txt): App admin and operator pages: Hub, compute, account and administration.
- [Capabilities](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/capabilities.txt): Author, publish, and install capability bundles — agents, tools, skills, MCP servers, flags, and workers.
- [Capability Authoring](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/capability-authoring.txt): Everything an agent or user needs to author a capability: the capability reference, the TUI default tools every agent inherits, the SDK-side capability and agent surfaces, and the capability optimization workflow.
- [Dreadnode CLI](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/dreadnode-cli.txt): Full reference for the dreadnode (`dn`) command-line interface — every command group, flag, and convention. Auto-generated from the cyclopts CLI tree.
- [Dreadnode Concepts](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/dreadnode-concepts.txt): Platform terminology, runtime/sandbox split, capability install model, and the directories where Dreadnode stores its state — everything an agent needs to answer 'how does Dreadnode itself work'.
- [Evaluations](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/evaluations.txt): Run, inspect, and author judged evaluations across tasks, scorers, and surfaces.
- [Sandboxes](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/sandboxes.txt): Isolated compute sandboxes used by runtimes, evaluations, and tasks.
- [Runtimes](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/runtimes.txt): Runtime records, runtime servers, and interactive runtime tooling.
- [TUI](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/tui.txt): Terminal UI surfaces and workflows — chat sessions, agent/model selection, autonomy, approvals, and trace inspection.
- [AI Red Teaming](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/ai-red-teaming.txt): AIRT assessments, attacks, transforms, and CLI workflows.
- [Optimization](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/optimization.txt): Hosted and SDK optimization workflows, studies, and samplers.
- [Training](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/training.txt): Hosted SFT/RL training jobs across the CLI, SDK, and App.
- [Worlds](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/worlds.txt): Generate manifests and trajectories for security environments.
- [Datasets](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/datasets.txt): Datasets in the App registry and in SDK-driven data loading.
- [Models](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/models.txt): Model registry and chat model selection.
- [CLI](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/cli.txt): Command line tooling for Dreadnode workflows.
- [SDK Reference](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/sdk-reference.txt): Auto-generated Python SDK API reference.
- [Guides](https://staging.docs.dreadnode.io/_llms-txt/guides.txt): Goal-first operator guides that connect the App, TUI, CLI, SDK, and agents analysis surfaces.

## Notes

- The complete documentation includes all content from the official documentation
- The content is automatically generated from the same source as the official documentation