Reproducing the SMT Jailbreak: Forged Moderation Traces Won in a Single Turn
SourcesThis work starts from Liu et al.'s paper Beyond the Prompt: Jailbreaking Function-Calling LLMs via Simulated Moderation Traces (arXiv 2607.00481). SMT stands for Simulated Moderation Traces: a multi-turn jailbreak technique against commercial function-calling LLMs. The baseline harness used here comes from the implementation repository accompanying the paper. ScopeThis is an independent reproduction and engineering extension, not an official interpretation by the authors. The paper introduced SMT and its own benchmark evaluation, whose numbers this article does not cite. This article adds an end-to-end reproduction against a real commercial API, a batch of protocol-compatibility fixes, a wrapper that ports the technique into a coding agent, and code for a deepening multi-turn direction. Results such as queries=1 and scores of 80 to 100 come from my experiments only, apply solely to the models and dates stated below, and rest on a sample size of four runs. Do not generalize. ...