About JailbreakDB
An indexed catalog of working LLM jailbreak techniques.
What this site covers
JailbreakDB is an indexed catalog of LLM jailbreak techniques. Each entry records the prompt pattern, the models it has been reported against, what behaviour it exploits and, where known, when it stopped working. Attribution points at the original disclosure wherever one exists.
- A taxonomy of jailbreak technique families, organised by the model behaviour each one exploits
- Persona and role-play prompts, including the DAN lineage and why most of it stopped working
- Multi-turn and crescendo escalation, where no single message is harmful
- In-context and many-shot manipulation of long context windows
- Automated attack generation: gradient search, genetic search and attacker-model loops
- Encoding and obfuscation, where the filter and the model disagree about the input
- Benchmarks and attack success rate: what the published numbers actually measure
- Patch status and how techniques decay as vendors retrain
17 articles are published so far. New ones are announced on the RSS feed.
What this site does not publish
The Jailbreak Index is an index. It records what a technique class exploits, which model families have been reported resistant to it, when it was first seen and where it was disclosed. It does not carry working payload strings, and neither do the articles. Where a prompt pattern has to be described to explain the mechanism, it is described rather than reproduced. That line is drawn deliberately and is set out on the disclosure page.
How these articles are produced
Articles here are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, research papers and preprints, and measurements published by whoever took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those cited sources before anything is published.
No article on this site is based on first-hand testing in a private lab, and nothing here should be read as a measurement report of its own. Where a number appears, it comes from a source that is named, so you can check the original instead of taking this site's word for it.
Everything is published under a single editorial byline. That byline is a publishing identity for the site, not a claim about a named individual, and it does not carry professional credentials.
Corrections
Corrections are welcome. If something here is wrong, out of date, or attributed to the wrong source, email hello@jailbreakdb.com with the page address and what it should say. Substantive corrections are made in the article itself rather than quietly dropped.
How this site is funded
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Contact
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Site: jailbreakdb.com
Published by: JailbreakDB Editorial
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