Troubleshooting
FAQ
Answers to the questions we get most often.
Does Talos need access to my model weights?
No. Talos attacks the deployed agent through its public interface. The underlying model, provider, and prompts are treated as opaque.
Will Talos take destructive actions in my system?
Talos issues real requests, so any tool with real side effects will run. Scan against a non-production tenant and provision a service account with the same permissions as your agent.
How long does a scan take?
A typical scan of a 6-tool agent completes in 8–15 minutes. Runtime scales roughly linearly with the number of matched templates.
Can I run Talos offline?
You can run the target agent offline, but Talos's default attack generator calls an LLM. Point TALOS_MODEL at a local model to run fully offline.
Is Talos open source?
The CLI is source-available under a business-source license during the private beta. See the security policy for disclosure details.