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Weir：无需 LLM 的 AI Agent 单元测试开源工具

英文标题：🔶 Show HN: Open tool for testing your AI Agents (No LLM)

Weir 是一个面向 AI Agent 的 CI 门禁工具，可读取 Agent 已生成的 OpenTelemetry traces，在敏感数据流向不应触及的外部 sink 时让构建失败。它先通过 `weir gauge` 评估遥测数据是否具备足够证据覆盖率，并明确指出需要开启的内容采集配置；随后 `weir scan` 可重建会话图、追踪污点传播并输出可核验的证据路径。项目以规则文件定义敏感数据源、目标 sink 和匹配模式，无需编写代码或 DSL。Weir 采用 Apache-2.0 许可，主张本地分析不打开网络套接字，并计划加入 `weir diff` 基线门禁、更多规则和更多遥测方言支持。

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中文

Weir：为你的 Agent 编写单元测试

Weir 是面向 AI Agent 的 CI 门禁工具。

它读取你的 Agent 已经产生的 OpenTelemetry traces，并在敏感数据流向本不应抵达的 sink 时令构建失败。

Weir 提出一个结构性问题：

敏感数据是否穿过 Agent，流向了本不应到达的 sink？

你的 Agent 已经在它生成的 traces 中回答了这一问题。Weir 会重建会话图，在其中追踪污点，并逐节点展示证据。

flowchart LR
  A["traces your agent<br/>already emits"] --> B{"weir gauge"}
  B -->|"coverage too low"| C["names the exact<br/>instrumentation switch"]
  C -.->|"flip it, re-run"| B
  B -->|"coverage sufficient"| D{"weir scan"}
  D -->|"no forbidden flow"| E["exit 0"]
  D -->|"forbidden flow"| F["exit 1 + witness path<br/>n2 → n3 → n4 → n5 → n6"]

加载中

pip install weir-scan
weir gauge your-export.jsonl   # or: weir gauge --sample

gauge 会提出其他工具都跳过的问题：你的遥测数据是否真的能支持你想作出的断言？

evidentiary coverage: 0%
argument capture: 0%
degraded: 100%
tool arguments not captured - this scope is emitted by Traceloop/OpenLLMetry's LangChain instrumentation, which captures content to span attributes by default; check TRACELOOP_TRACE_CONTENT (false disables capture) in the traced service's environment
  linkage: explicit (gen_ai.tool.call.id present)
  payloads: absent - content capture is off
at your current telemetry: coverage reporting YES - taint/scan NO
content capture is off; for OTel GenAI instrumentations built on the util-genai layer, set OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN=gen_ai_latest_experimental and OTEL_INSTRUMENTATION_GENAI_CAPTURE_MESSAGE_CONTENT=SPAN_ONLY to capture gen_ai.input.messages / gen_ai.output.messages / gen_ai.tool.call.arguments and unlock cross-step analysis

大多数导出数据会在第一步失败，因为几乎所有地方的内容采集默认都是关闭的。因此，weir 会从你自己 trace 中使用的 instrumentation 读取信息，明确指出需要打开的具体开关。

打开它，重新运行，接着 weir scan 才是真正的测试：

1 verdict-grade finding(s)
finding: injection-exfil-to-outbound-sink
  source: financial_account_identifier at node 2 (tool_result)
  sink: send_email at node 6
  witness path: n2 -> n3 -> n4 -> n5 -> n6
  join tiers crossed: explicit
  verdict grade: yes
  matched value: 22 chars

以状态码 1 退出，构建失败，密钥被脱敏。该发现来自一条规则，而规则只是一个文件。完整内容如下：

{
  "id": "injection-exfil-to-outbound-sink",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "stage": "active",
  "description": "Untrusted content reaches an outbound sink verbatim, carrying a source-class-eligible sensitive value (R5.9).",
  "source_class": "financial_account_identifier",
  "sink_tool_name": "send_email",
  "mode": "verbatim"
}

无需代码，也无需 DSL。你只需指定一个 source、一个 sink 和一种模式；引擎会构建图、追踪污点，并展示其分析过程。

改写 prompt 不会改变一项发现。增加一个步骤也不会改变它。如果证据确实被削弱，发现会被降级，并说明原因，而不会悄悄变为绿色通过。

它读取真实 traces，而不是我们编写的 traces。 测试套件固定了一份 weir 代码从未接触过的冻结采集记录（溯源信息）。损坏的输入会按 18 个具名类别之一降级处理；它绝不猜测（契约）。
攻击者内容无法重写其逻辑。 连接遵循证据等级，跨越弱等级的发现永远不会获得裁决等级。若能绕过这一机制，那就是一个安全漏洞（SECURITY.md）。
Gauge 已经过校准。 同一计划会同时生成原生 trace 和 OTLP trace；只有字节级完全等价时，适配器才会被接受。
关于他人软件的声明均有来源和日期。（REMEDIATION_SOURCES.md）

包括 OTel GenAI 适配器、会话图、污点追踪与评估、gauge、HTML 报告，以及测试语料库背后的 trace 生成器。

下一步：weir diff 基线门禁、更多规则、更多方言。

全部采用 Apache-2.0 许可证，永久如此。没有保留内容，没有功能门禁，没有回传数据——分析路径不会打开任何 socket；这是一项测试，而非承诺。

安装 weir-scan；导入名和命令均为 weir。

堰是在河流上修建的低坝，用于调节和测量水流——水仍在流动；测量照常进行。
Leith Water 的 Damhead Weir。照片由 501ghost 提供，Wikimedia Commons，CC0。

English / 原文

Weir - unit tests for your agents

Weir is a CI gate for AI agents.

It reads the OpenTelemetry traces your agent already emits and fails the build when sensitive data reaches a sink it should not reach.

Weir asks a structural question:

Did sensitive data flow through the agent to a sink it should never have reached?

Your agent already answers that question in the traces it emits. Weir reconstructs the session graph, tracks taint through it, and shows the evidence node by node.

flowchart LR
  A["traces your agent<br/>already emits"] --> B{"weir gauge"}
  B -->|"coverage too low"| C["names the exact<br/>instrumentation switch"]
  C -.->|"flip it, re-run"| B
  B -->|"coverage sufficient"| D{"weir scan"}
  D -->|"no forbidden flow"| E["exit 0"]
  D -->|"forbidden flow"| F["exit 1 + witness path<br/>n2 → n3 → n4 → n5 → n6"]

pip install weir-scan
weir gauge your-export.jsonl   # or: weir gauge --sample

gauge asks the question every other tool skips: can your telemetry even support the assertion you want to make?

evidentiary coverage: 0%
argument capture: 0%
degraded: 100%
tool arguments not captured - this scope is emitted by Traceloop/OpenLLMetry's LangChain instrumentation, which captures content to span attributes by default; check TRACELOOP_TRACE_CONTENT (false disables capture) in the traced service's environment
  linkage: explicit (gen_ai.tool.call.id present)
  payloads: absent - content capture is off
at your current telemetry: coverage reporting YES - taint/scan NO
content capture is off; for OTel GenAI instrumentations built on the util-genai layer, set OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN=gen_ai_latest_experimental and OTEL_INSTRUMENTATION_GENAI_CAPTURE_MESSAGE_CONTENT=SPAN_ONLY to capture gen_ai.input.messages / gen_ai.output.messages / gen_ai.tool.call.arguments and unlock cross-step analysis

Most exports fail this first step, because content capture ships off by default almost everywhere. So weir names the exact switch to flip, read from the instrumentation in your own trace.

Flip it, re-run, and weir scan is the actual test:

1 verdict-grade finding(s)
finding: injection-exfil-to-outbound-sink
  source: financial_account_identifier at node 2 (tool_result)
  sink: send_email at node 6
  witness path: n2 -> n3 -> n4 -> n5 -> n6
  join tiers crossed: explicit
  verdict grade: yes
  matched value: 22 chars

Exit 1, build fails, secret redacted. That finding came from one rule, and a rule is just a file. This is the whole thing:

{
  "id": "injection-exfil-to-outbound-sink",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "stage": "active",
  "description": "Untrusted content reaches an outbound sink verbatim, carrying a source-class-eligible sensitive value (R5.9).",
  "source_class": "financial_account_identifier",
  "sink_tool_name": "send_email",
  "mode": "verbatim"
}

No code, no DSL. You name a source, a sink, and a mode. The engine builds the graph, tracks the taint, and shows its work.

Rewording your prompts will not move a finding. Adding a step will not move it. If the evidence genuinely weakens, the finding is demoted and says why, instead of quietly flipping to green.

It reads real traces, not ones we wrote. The suite pins a frozen capture that no weir code ever touched (provenance). Broken input degrades under one of 18 named rows; it never guesses (contract).
Attacker content cannot rewire it. Joins follow evidence tiers, and a finding that crosses a weak one is never verdict-grade. Get past that and it is a security bug (SECURITY.md).
The gauge is calibrated. One plan emits both native and OTLP traces; the adapter is accepted only on byte-for-byte equivalence.
Claims about other people's software are sourced and dated (REMEDIATION_SOURCES.md).

The OTel GenAI adapter, session graph, taint and evaluation, the gauge, HTML reports, and the trace generator behind the test corpus.

Next: the weir diff baseline gate, more rules, more dialects.

Apache-2.0, all of it, permanently. Nothing held back, nothing gated, nothing phoning home - the analysis path opens no sockets, and that is a test, not a promise.

Install weir-scan; the import and the command are both weir.

A weir is a low dam built across a river to regulate and measure its flow - the water keeps moving; the measurement happens anyway.
Damhead Weir, Water of Leith. Photo by 501ghost, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.