Adversarial Robustness Toolbox

A multi-purpose utility tool for managing data entries, searching records, and exporting information from the command line. The Adversarial Robustness Toolbox CLI provides a lightweight, file-based data management system with timestamped logging and full CRUD operations.

Commands

Command	Description
`run`	Execute the main function with provided arguments
`config`	Display configuration file path and log the action
`status`	Show current operational status (reports "ready" when healthy)
`init`	Initialize the data directory and prepare the environment
`list`	List all entries stored in the data log file
`add`	Add a new timestamped entry to the data log
`remove`	Remove a specified entry from the data store
`search`	Search entries by keyword (case-insensitive grep)
`export`	Export all stored data to stdout
`info`	Display version number and data directory path
`help`	Show the full help message with all available commands
`version`	Print the current version string

Data Storage

All data is stored in plain text files under the data directory:

Data log: $DATA_DIR/data.log — stores all entries added via add, one per line with date prefix
History log: $DATA_DIR/history.log — audit trail of every command executed with timestamps
Config: $DATA_DIR/config.json — referenced by the config command

Default data directory: ~/.local/share/adversarial-robustness-toolbox/

Override by setting the ADVERSARIAL_ROBUSTNESS_TOOLBOX_DIR environment variable:

export ADVERSARIAL_ROBUSTNESS_TOOLBOX_DIR="/custom/path/to/data"

Requirements

Bash (with set -euo pipefail support)
Standard Unix utilities: grep, cat, date, echo
No external dependencies or API keys required

When to Use

Quick data logging — When you need a fast CLI-based way to log timestamped entries for ML security experiments or adversarial testing notes
Searching through records — When you need to find specific entries across your data log using keyword search
Exporting data for reports — When you need to dump all stored records to stdout or pipe them into another tool for further analysis
Lightweight experiment tracking — When you want a minimal, file-based system to track adversarial robustness experiments, model evaluations, or attack results
System initialization and status checks — When you need to verify the tool is properly initialized and check its operational health

Examples

# Initialize the toolbox and verify status
adversarial-robustness-toolbox init
adversarial-robustness-toolbox status

# Add entries to track experiments
adversarial-robustness-toolbox add "FGSM attack on ResNet50 — accuracy dropped 23%"
adversarial-robustness-toolbox add "PGD defense applied — robustness improved to 78%"
adversarial-robustness-toolbox add "Carlini-Wagner L2 attack test on MNIST classifier"

# List all stored entries
adversarial-robustness-toolbox list

# Search for specific attack types
adversarial-robustness-toolbox search "FGSM"

# Export all data to a backup file
adversarial-robustness-toolbox export > experiment-log.txt

# Check version and data directory info
adversarial-robustness-toolbox info
adversarial-robustness-toolbox version

Output

All commands return output to stdout. You can redirect to a file:

adversarial-robustness-toolbox export > output.txt
adversarial-robustness-toolbox list > entries.txt

Every command execution is logged to $DATA_DIR/history.log for auditing purposes.

Configuration

Set the ADVERSARIAL_ROBUSTNESS_TOOLBOX_DIR environment variable to change the data directory. Default: ~/.local/share/adversarial-robustness-toolbox/

# Example: use a custom directory
export ADVERSARIAL_ROBUSTNESS_TOOLBOX_DIR="$HOME/.art-data"
adversarial-robustness-toolbox init