The Setup
We run an 8-agent adversarial swarm on a single RTX 5070 (12GB VRAM). No cloud. No API keys. Everything local, everything sovereign.
To test whether it actually works, we ran 30 rounds of automated war games — attacker models versus our sentinel defense chain.
The Results
| Category | Attacks | Defended | Breached | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authority Escalation | 13 | 13 | 0 | 100% |
| Prompt Injection | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% |
| Context Poisoning | 2 | 2 | 0 | 100% |
| Social Engineering | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% |
| Logic Bomb | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% |
| Overall | 30 | 28 | 2 | 93.3% |
What Worked
Authority escalation, prompt injection, and context poisoning were fully blocked. The sentinel’s blocklist and the multi-agent review chain caught every attempt. When an attacker tried to escalate privileges, the guardian agent flagged it before it reached the synthesis phase.
The time-sliced pipeline helps here — each agent only sees its designated context window, so a poisoned context in Phase 1 gets scrubbed before Phase 2 begins.
What Didn’t
Both breaches came from the same vector: basic fallback attacks. When the attacker model failed to generate a creative attack, it defaulted to “Ignore all previous instructions” — and our sentinel let those through because the generic pattern wasn’t in the blocklist.
That’s a known gap. The fix is straightforward: add the generic “ignore all previous” pattern family to the sentinel blocklist. We’re patching it this week.
The Hardware Reality
All of this runs on a single RTX 5070 with 12GB VRAM. The inference engine is DeepSeek-Coder-V2 16B, hitting 202.9 TPS warm with an 8ms first-token latency — fast enough to run the full 8-agent pipeline in under 15 seconds per cycle.
The key insight: you don’t need an H100 or a cloud API to run serious adversarial defense. Time-sliced inference on consumer hardware is viable if you design the pipeline correctly.
What’s Next
- Patch the sentinel blocklist for generic fallback patterns
- Scale to 100+ round war games with persistent systemd service
- Open-source the war game framework for community testing
- Benchmark against cloud-based alternatives (cost per defended attack)
The 93.3% isn’t perfect. But it’s honest data from real adversarial testing, running on hardware you can buy at your local computer store. That’s the point.
Sovereign Hive is a local-first AI security platform. No cloud. No compromise. Built in Queensland, Australia.