feat(auditor): upgrade garak to version 0.16.0

[parkanzky]

Summary

Upgraded auditor garak to 0.16.0

Related Issue

Changes

Upgraded to garak 0.16.0. Some of the garak lite API files included two new dependencies that are now included and automatically pulled on upgrade.

Type of Change

• Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
• Code change with documentation updates
• Documentation only
• Contributor tooling or automation
• CI, build, or test infrastructure

Quality Gates

• Tests added or updated for changed behavior

• Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification: We have comprehensive tests for the lightweight garak API

• Tests not applicable — justification:

• Documentation updated for user-visible behavior

• Documentation not applicable — justification: Documentation doesn't explicitly mention garak version

Verification

• Pull request title follows the repository's Conventional Commit format
• Every commit includes an appropriate Signed-off-by: trailer
• uv run pre-commit run -a passes, or any blocked checks are identified below
• Targeted tests pass, or tests are marked not applicable above
• No secrets, API keys, or credentials are included

Targeted validation:

Everything in packages/garak_api/tests/ passes. Container builds. Garak runs.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added a unified run.spec format for selecting probes, buffs, plugins, tiers, tags, and exclusions.
  • Added support for wildcard, category, alias, and intent-based selections.
  • Added clearer handling for inactive, rejected, unknown, and empty selections.

• Bug Fixes

  • Explicit run.spec selections now take precedence over legacy selection settings.
  • Invalid selections and configuration values now produce clear validation errors.

• Release

  • Updated the garak-api package version to 0.16.0.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Changes

The Garak API adds unified run.spec parsing and plugin selection. Configuration maps legacy probe, buff, and tag settings into the new format. Shared resolution now handles filters, exclusions, intents, inactive modules, and plugin-spec parsing. Package metadata and module-generation settings are updated.

Unified Garak selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Selection specification contract packages/garak_api/garakapi/_spec.py	Adds selector and resolution data models, CLI and config-file parsers, validation, tier normalization, and legacy selection conversion.
Plugin selection resolution packages/garak_api/garakapi/_selection.py	Resolves probe and buff selectors through the plugin registry, applies tags, tiers, exclusions, and intent rules, and reports rejected or inactive selectors.
Configuration and plugin-spec integration packages/garak_api/garakapi/_config.py	Maps deprecated settings to run.spec, preserves explicit unified selections, renames load state, and uses shared resolution for plugin specifications.
Package and generated-module wiring .copyrightignore, .gitattributes, packages/garak_api/resources/VERSION, packages/garak_api/pyproject.toml, packages/garak_api/scripts/update_plugin_cache.sh, ruff.toml	Updates version metadata and registers the new modules for cache downloads, generated-file handling, copyright exclusion, and Ruff exclusion.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ConfigLoader
  participant _spec
  participant _selection
  participant PluginRegistry
  ConfigLoader->>_spec: parse run.spec or legacy settings
  _spec-->>ConfigLoader: return Spec
  ConfigLoader->>_selection: resolve_spec(Spec)
  _selection->>PluginRegistry: resolve paths and read tags and tiers
  PluginRegistry-->>_selection: return plugin matches and metadata
  _selection-->>ConfigLoader: return Resolution

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Suggested reviewers: mckornfield

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b8e9b

Some existing configurations can select no probes unexpectedly, and scans with null tier metadata can fail during selection. Resolve these selection regressions before merge.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 54.17% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 24 functions across 4 files. (5 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: upgrading the auditor's garak dependency to version 0.16.0.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Docstring coverage is 54.17% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 24 functions across 4 files. (5 skipped: 5 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/garak_api/garakapi/_selection.py`:
- Around line 77-78: Update _tier_of to treat a plugin metadata tier explicitly
set to None as _DEFAULT_TIER before converting it to int, while preserving
declared numeric tier values.

In `@packages/garak_api/garakapi/_spec.py`:
- Around line 278-279: Update the probe tag handling around
_meaningful(probe_tags) to split run.probe_tags on commas, trim each resulting
tag, and append a separate selector for each non-empty tag instead of one
selector containing the full string.

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Suite	Lines Covered	Line Rate	Branch Rate
Unit Tests	39284/50264	78.2%	62.3%
Integration Tests	23879/47492	50.3%	23.0%