A curated list of AI-powered pentesting tools, frameworks, MCP servers, and resources for autonomous cybersecurity operations
See the codeA curated list of AI-powered tools, frameworks, and resources for penetration testing, bug bounty hunting, red teaming, and cybersecurity operations.
The intersection of Artificial Intelligence and offensive/defensive security is evolving rapidly. This list tracks the most impactful open-source projects that leverage LLMs, machine learning, and autonomous agents for cybersecurity.
Maintained by SkyVanguard — Autonomous AI cybersecurity. Curated by @skyvanguard, TryHackMe Top 1% Global.
📚 Free, hands-on courses on AI pentesting, cybersecurity, AI and vibe coding — in English & Spanish → skyvanguard.com.py/courses
Stars updated: October 2026
Fully autonomous agents that perform end-to-end penetration testing tasks with minimal human intervention.
| Tool | Description | AI Tool | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strix | Open-source AI hackers that run code dynamically, find vulnerabilities, and validate them through actual proof-of-concepts. | Claude API | |
| Shannon | Fully autonomous AI hacker using Claude Agent SDK. 96.15% success rate on XBOW Benchmark. Finds and exploits real vulnerabilities in web apps. | Claude API (Agent SDK) | |
| PentAGI | Fully autonomous AI agents system. Docker sandboxed, 20+ built-in tools (nmap, metasploit, sqlmap), Neo4j knowledge graph. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek) | |
| PentestGPT | Automated penetration testing agentic framework powered by LLMs. Published at USENIX Security 2024. | OpenAI API (GPT-4) | |
| CyberStrikeAI | AI-native security platform in Go combining Eino-powered agents, MCP-native tools, RAG knowledge, and human oversight in one auditable workspace. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI-compatible: OpenAI, DeepSeek, Qwen) | |
| Decepticon | Autonomous hacking agent for red teaming. Modular multi-agent architecture built on LangGraph with MCP tool integration. | Multi-LLM (via LiteLLM) | |
| Cairn | General-purpose state-space search engine validated on autonomous penetration testing: given an origin and a goal, it searches for the attack path. | Claude Code, Codex (worker backends) | |
| PentestAgent | AI agent framework for black-box security testing with prebuilt attack playbooks for bug bounty, red-team, and pentest. | OpenAI API (GPT-4) | |
| CyberStrike | Terminal-based offensive security harness with 13+ specialized agents, 7,600+ security skills, and 120+ OWASP test cases. | Multi-LLM (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, Bedrock) | |
| RedAmon | Self-hosted framework that maps the attack surface into a graph, exploits it from a Kali sandbox behind human approval gates, and opens pull requests that fix what it finds. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, OpenRouter, Ollama) | |
| Pentest-Swarm-AI | Autonomous pentesting with a swarm of AI agents. Orchestrates recon, classification, exploitation, and reporting specialists with ReAct reasoning. Bug bounty, monitoring, and CTF modes. | Claude API | |
| Pentest-AI | AI pentester usable via MCP, CLI, or CI that re-runs each exploit with machine oracles before marking a finding as verified. | Claude Code, Codex, Ollama/local models | |
| Pentest Copilot | AI-powered browser-based ethical hacking assistant with agentic architecture that runs commands in the pentest environment. | OpenAI API | |
| NeuroSploit | AI-powered pentest framework with 100 vulnerability types, isolated Kali containers, 9 specialized agent personas. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Claude, Ollama/local) | |
| LuaN1aoAgent | Cognitive-driven autonomous AI hacker using dual-graph reasoning (causal and attack graphs) for plan-execute-reflect penetration testing. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, DeepSeek, Claude) | |
| hackingBuddyGPT | Academic framework for building LLM-driven ethical hacking agents in ~50 lines of code. Research platform with reproducible privilege-escalation benchmarks. | OpenAI API (GPT-4) | |
| Xalgorix | Self-hosted autonomous pentesting agents for real-time recon, vulnerability detection, and exploit-verified findings with a local web dashboard. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Gemini, Ollama, LiteLLM) | |
| Nebula | AI-powered pentesting assistant for automating recon, note-taking, and vulnerability analysis with human decision checkpoints. | OpenAI API (GPT-4) | |
| Darkmoon | Open source autonomous AI penetration testing platform that orchestrates 80+ offensive tools through Markdown playbooks and MCP controlled execution, covering web, cloud, Active Directory, Kubernetes and API with an evidence trail per finding. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama/local) | |
| Cybermes | Offensive security and bug bounty agent framework with 200+ playbooks, a native Go MCP server, and a standalone CLI driven by Hermes Agent. | Hermes Agent, MCP clients (Claude, Gemini) | |
| PentestCode | Multi-agent terminal pentesting agent that runs tools, keeps persistent engagement state, and chains attacks toward a stated goal. | Multi-LLM (20+ providers incl. Claude, OpenAI, Ollama) | |
| numasec | Terminal AI security agent that drives your local tools with runbooks, keeps operation context, and tracks findings, evidence, and reports. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter, Ollama) | |
| ARTEMIS | ARTEMIS is an autonomous agent created by the Stanford Trinity project to automate vulnerability discovery. | OpenAI API (GPT-4) | |
| AIDA | AI-Driven Security Assessment that connects AI to 400+ pentesting tools via MCP (Exegol container), enabling natural language-driven security workflows. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Claude, Ollama via MCP) | |
| Zen-AI-Pentest | Autonomous multi-agent pentest framework integrating 72+ security tools with a React dashboard, REST API, and CLI. | Multi-LLM (DeepSeek, GPT-4o, Claude, Llama) | |
| BugTraceAI | Open-source multi-agent platform for authorized web application security testing with validation, evidence capture, and reporting. | Multi-LLM | |
| cyber-harness | Single-binary agent runtime for pentest, red team, and bug bounty that bundles scanners, proxy routing, skills, and a source-code audit distribution. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible, DeepSeek) |
Model Context Protocol servers that bridge AI assistants with cybersecurity tools.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| REA | Local CLI and MCP tools for agent-assisted reverse engineering of native binaries, JavaScript/Electron apps, and .NET assemblies, with evidence provenance; native deep analysis uses separately installed Hopper, Ghidra, or IDA. | |
| IDA Pro MCP | AI-powered reverse engineering assistant that bridges IDA Pro with LLMs through MCP. | |
| HexStrike AI | Advanced MCP server with 150+ cybersecurity tools. Lets AI agents autonomously run pentesting, vuln discovery, and bug bounty tools. | |
| Ghidra MCP | Ghidra MCP server with 200+ tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering, available as GUI plugin or headless server. | |
| Burp Suite MCP Server | Official PortSwigger extension that integrates Burp Suite with AI clients through MCP. | |
| MCP Scanner | Cisco AI Defense scanner that inspects MCP servers for threats and security findings. | |
| mcp-security-hub | 36 MCP servers with 175+ tools: Nmap, Ghidra, Nuclei, SQLMap, Hashcat. Recon, web sec, binary analysis, blockchain, AD. | |
| JADX MCP Server | MCP server for the JADX-AI plugin enabling LLM-assisted Android APK reverse engineering. | |
| awesome-mcp-security | Curated collection of MCP security resources: tools, papers, videos, articles, and vulnerability information. | |
| Google Security MCP | MCP servers that give AI clients access to Google Security Operations (Chronicle), Threat Intelligence, and other Google security products. | |
| pentestMCP | AI-powered penetration testing via MCP. 20+ security assessment tools (Nmap, Nuclei, ZAP, SQLMap) through MCP protocol. | |
| awesome-cyber-security-mcp | Curated list of MCP servers focused on cybersecurity operations. | |
| mcp-server-security-standard | Open, testable security control standard (MSSS) for certifying MCP servers with levels and evidence requirements. | |
| Bolt | Docker-based MCP server exposing 100+ Kali Linux security tools as plugins. Successor of mcp-for-security. | |
| mcp-vanguard | Security pentesting MCP Server with 22 tools. Windows/WSL bridge for Kali tools integration with Claude. | |
| DomScan | Hosted domain intelligence MCP for DNS, WHOIS/RDAP, TLS, subdomains, reputation, email security, and typosquatting. |
AI-enhanced tools for reconnaissance and bug bounty automation.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Nuclei | Fast vulnerability scanner with YAML-based DSL. AI-powered template generation via -ai flag. 10k+ community templates. | |
| Sn1per | Attack surface management platform combining automated scanning with intelligent analysis. | |
| awesome-bugbounty-tools | Curated list of bug bounty tools including AI-enhanced scanners and recon automation frameworks. | |
| Agentic Bug Hunter | AI bug bounty toolkit that runs recon, finding, validation, and reporting from a CLI or inside Claude Code, with free or subscription AI providers. | |
| Claude-BugHunter | Claude Code skill bundle for bug hunting and external red teaming: 80+ skills, 15 slash commands, and 681 disclosed-report patterns. | |
| Mantis | Security framework automating discovery, reconnaissance, and vulnerability scanning. Chains multiple tools from domain input. | |
| HackBot | AI-powered cybersecurity chatbot using LLaMA for code analysis, scan analysis, and cybersecurity Q&A. | |
| Julius | Praetorian's LLM service fingerprinting tool that identifies Ollama, vLLM, LiteLLM, and 60+ AI servers on network endpoints. |
AI tools for solving Capture The Flag competitions and security challenges.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Project Muteki | Multi-agent CTF-solving swarm where a coordinator schedules several CLI agent engines toward a single goal. | |
| BoxPwnr | Framework for benchmarking LLMs and agentic strategies on HackTheBox, PortSwigger, picoCTF, TryHackMe, and other CTF platforms. | |
| EnIGMA | Enhanced Interactive Generative Model Agent. State-of-the-art on NYU CTF and CyBench. 3x more challenges than prior agents. (ICML 2025) | Paper |
| CTFAgent | LLM-powered CTF solver with plan-and-execute paradigm. Outperforms 88% of human CTF participants. | Paper |
| CSAW LLM CTF Attack Competition | CSAW competition using generative autonomous AI to solve CTF challenges. Major academic AI security benchmark. | Competition |
| Cybench | Framework for evaluating LLM agents on 40 professional-level CTF tasks from 4 competitions. | |
| ChatGPT on CTF | Research testing whether AI-LLMs can solve CTF challenges by running commands in test environments. |
AI-powered vulnerability discovery and code analysis tools.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| SkillSpector | NVIDIA's security scanner for AI agent skills. Detects vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, and prompt injection before a skill is installed. | |
| Semgrep | Lightweight static analysis for finding bugs and enforcing code standards with AI pattern matching. | |
| Codex Security | OpenAI's CLI and TypeScript SDK for defining security policy and finding, validating, and fixing vulnerabilities in code. | |
| Garak | NVIDIA's LLM vulnerability scanner. Probes for hallucination, data leakage, prompt injection, toxicity, and jailbreaks. | |
| agent-scan | Snyk's security scanner for AI agents, MCP servers and agent skills. Detects prompt injections and tool poisoning. | |
| open-kritt | Self-hosted platform that orchestrates AI agents to find, de-duplicate, rank, and validate vulnerabilities in code. | |
| Agentic Security | LLM vulnerability scanner / AI red teaming kit. Protects AI systems from jailbreaks, fuzzing, and multimodal attacks. | |
| AutoCVE | Agent-driven CVE discovery pipeline that selects projects, audits source code, verifies vulnerabilities, and writes reports. | |
| LLM SAST Skills | Agent skills that turn Claude Code, Codex, and other coding assistants into a SAST scanner for web and mobile codebases. | |
| AgentShield | Security auditor for AI agent configurations: hardcoded secrets, permission misconfigs, hook injection, and MCP server risks. | |
| Agentic Radar | Security scanner for agentic systems. Workflow visualization, tool identification, MCP server detection, vulnerability mapping. | |
| MEDUSA | AI-first security scanner with 40,000+ detection patterns for AI/ML apps, agents, and LLM integrations. | |
| ModelScan | Scans ML models for unsafe code. Supports H5, Pickle, SavedModel, and more formats. | |
| DockSec | OWASP AI-powered Docker security scanner that explains vulnerabilities in plain English. | |
| agentgg | Agentic white-box SAST scanner whose agents follow imports and call graphs to confirm findings before reporting. CI ready. | |
| OpenHack | Agentic security scanner and verifier for codebases that exclusively uses open-source models. | |
| NVIDIA Vulnerability Analysis | NVIDIA blueprint for identifying and mitigating container security vulnerabilities with generative AI. | |
| rust-in-peace | Agent-assisted vulnerability discovery for Rust with adversarial triage, dynamic verification, and an experimental Android APK analysis profile. |
Offensive AI tools, adversarial ML, and AI red teaming frameworks.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Promptfoo | LLM red teaming, pentesting, and vuln scanning with 100+ attack types. Tests complete AI systems including RAG and agents. | |
| Social-Engineer-Toolkit | Open-source penetration testing framework designed for social engineering. | |
| Caldera | Automated adversary emulation platform with AI-driven attack planning. Originally by MITRE, now an Apache project. | |
| Adversarial Robustness Toolbox | IBM's Python library for ML Security: evasion, poisoning, extraction, inference attacks and defenses. | |
| PyRIT | Microsoft's Python Risk Identification Tool for red teaming generative AI systems. | |
| DeepTeam | Framework for red teaming LLMs. 10+ adversarial attacks, supports OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and NIST AI RMF. | |
| pentest-ai-agents | 50 Claude Code subagents for authorized penetration testing and offensive security research. | |
| offensive-ai-compilation | Curated list of Offensive AI resources: tools, techniques, research papers, and attack methodologies. | |
| Anamorpher | Trail of Bits tool for crafting image-scaling attacks that deliver multimodal prompt injection. | |
| EasyJailbreak | Python framework to generate adversarial jailbreak prompts against LLMs. | |
| OPFOR | Adversary emulation for AI agents and MCP servers, usable from the CLI, the IDE, or a browser extension. | |
| AgentHound | Offensive framework for agentic infrastructure: recon, credential looting, model exfiltration, and poisoning across MCP, A2A, gateways, and vector stores. | |
| Augustus | Praetorian's Go-based LLM vulnerability scanner with 210+ adversarial attacks: prompt injection, jailbreaks, encoding exploits, and data extraction. | |
| Spikee | Reversec's modular kit for testing LLMs, guardrails, and applications against prompt injection and jailbreaks. |
AI tools for defense, detection, and incident response.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Wazuh | Open-source security monitoring with AI-enhanced threat detection, SIEM, and XDR. | |
| Sigma | Generic signature format for SIEM systems with AI-powered rule creation. | |
| Falco | Cloud Native Runtime Security by CNCF. Detects threats across containers, hosts, K8s, and cloud. | |
| Guardrails AI | Adding guardrails to LLMs. Input/output validation, content moderation, and PII detection. | |
| NeMo Guardrails | NVIDIA's toolkit for programmable guardrails on LLM systems. Content moderation, jailbreak detection. | |
| Redcells | Automated adversarial testing platform for LLMs you own or control. Runs structured red-team jobs (prompt injection, jailbreak, data leakage, etc.) with iterative attack→refine layers and per-layer judge scoring via web dashboard or API. | Repo |
| Shuffle | Open-source SOAR platform for security automation and orchestration. | |
| AiSOC | Self-hostable AI Security Operations Center with alert fusion, LLM-agent triage, and MITRE ATT&CK investigation. | |
| Beelzebub | Deception framework for realistic decoys, with LLM-powered responses that sustain attacker interaction. | |
| GhostWriter | Report management platform for red/blue team operations with AI-assisted analysis. | |
| AttackGen | Incident response testing tool that uses LLMs with MITRE ATT&CK and ATLAS to generate tailored attack scenarios. | |
| STRIDE GPT | AI-powered threat modeling tool that generates STRIDE threat models and attack trees for an application. | |
| numbat | Perplexity's endpoint visibility into AI agent activity, with local detection, optional pre-action blocking, and forensic reconstruction. | |
| Agent Threat Rules | Open, executable detection rule format for AI agent threats, like Sigma for agents. |
Tools for defending AI/LLM systems against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and emerging threats.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| AI-Infra-Guard | Tencent's full-stack AI red teaming platform that scans agents, skills, MCP servers, and AI infrastructure. | |
| Superagent | SDK for AI agent safety: blocks prompt injection, redacts PII and secrets, and runs red team scenarios against agents. | |
| PurpleLlama | Meta's tools to assess and improve LLM security: CyberSecEval benchmarks, Llama Guard, Prompt Guard, and Code Shield. | |
| nono | Zero-setup sandbox that isolates AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, and more) with fine-grained, policy-controlled permissions. | |
| ADR | Uber's Agentic AI Detection and Response system for securing employee-facing agents like Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex. MLSys 2026. | |
| Pipelock | AI agent firewall that inspects HTTP, WebSocket, MCP, and A2A traffic for secret exfiltration and prompt injection. | |
| API Relay Audit | Local CLI auditing third-party AI relays and LLM proxies for prompt-injection signals, package-command text changes, error-response leakage, and Anthropic SSE anomalies, with Markdown reports. | |
| Arcanum PI Taxonomy | Interactive classification of prompt injection and LLM attacks for pentesters moving into AI red teaming. | |
| ZeroLeaks | CLI that red-teams LLM system prompts and agent instructions for prompt injection and extraction. | |
| Open-Prompt-Injection | Toolkit and benchmark for implementing and evaluating prompt injection attacks and defenses. | |
| mcp-context-protector | Trail of Bits security wrapper for untrusted MCP servers: config pinning, line-jumping and tool-poisoning protection. | |
| Awesome-LLMSecOps | LLM Security Operations in one repo. Curated links covering the full LLMSecOps lifecycle. | |
| parry-guard | Prompt injection scanner for AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex). Runs DeBERTa/Llama transformers locally in Rust via Candle or ONNX. |
Machine learning-guided fuzzing and automated test generation tools.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| AFL++ | Superior fork of AFL with ML-guided mutation strategies. Industry standard for fuzzing. | |
| Buttercup | Trail of Bits' Cyber Reasoning System for DARPA AIxCC. Finds vulnerabilities with fuzzing and patches them with LLMs. | |
| FuzzyAI | CyberArk's automated LLM fuzzing tool for finding jailbreaks and security vulnerabilities in LLM APIs. | |
| OSS-Fuzz-Gen | Google's LLM-powered fuzzing via OSS-Fuzz. Generates fuzz targets for C/C++. 29% max line coverage increase. | |
| EvoMaster | First open-source AI-driven tool for system-level test generation. Evolutionary algorithms for REST, GraphQL, RPC. | |
| Atlantis | Team Atlanta's Cyber Reasoning System from the DARPA AIxCC Final Competition for automated vulnerability discovery. | |
| OSS-CRS | OpenSSF framework for building and running LLM-based autonomous bug-finding and bug-fixing systems. |
AI tools for automated penetration testing report creation.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| PwnDoc | Pentest report generator for findings and customizable Docx reports with templates. | |
| SysReptor | Customizable pentest reporting platform with AI-assisted writing and finding descriptions. | |
| APTRS | Automated Pentest Reporting System. Python/Django-based. PDF/Excel generation, project tracking. | |
| Faction | Pen test report generation and assessment collaboration platform. |
AI-powered Open Source Intelligence tools.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Sherlock | Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400+ social networks. | |
| GHunt | Offensive Google framework for OSINT. | |
| theHarvester | E-mails, subdomains and names harvester for OSINT. | |
| Recon-ng | Full-featured web reconnaissance framework with modular design. | |
| OpenOSINT | AI-powered OSINT agent with 20 tools, usable as an interactive REPL, MCP server, CLI, or web interface. | |
| Taranis AI | Advanced OSINT tool using NLP-powered news collection and AI for situational analysis. | |
| OSINTGPT | OSINT analysis tool leveraging GPT embeddings and vector search for document similarity. |
| List | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| awesome-pentest | General pentesting resources. | |
| Awesome-LLM4Cybersecurity | LLMs for cybersecurity: pentesting reasoning, exploit generation, vulnerability detection. | |
| awesome-ai-security-tools | Public-source, research, and commercial tools for AI security and AI-assisted cybersecurity. | |
| AI-Red-Teaming-Guide | Guide to adversarial testing and security evaluation of AI systems. | |
| Awesome-AI-Hacking-Agents | List of AI hacking agents. | |
| awesome-cybersecurity-agentic-ai | Autonomous security agents, frameworks, and research. | |
| awesome-skills-security | Curated skill set of security-focused Claude Code skills. | |
| Awesome-Offensive-AI-Agentic-Landscape | Open-source projects, papers, benchmarks, and commercial solutions in offensive agentic AI. | |
| awesome-ai-cybersecurity | Resources for AI in cybersecurity. Collection for professionals and researchers. |
Projects with no commits in the last 12 months. Still useful as reference, but expect bugs, outdated dependencies, or broken integrations.
| Tool | Description | Original Category | Last Commit | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SpiderFoot | Automated OSINT platform. 200+ data sources, threat surface mapping, most modules need no API keys. | OSINT with AI | ||
| Awesome-GPT-Agents | GPT agents for cybersecurity: offensive, defensive, and analytical. | Awesome Lists | ||
| AutoSploit | Automated mass exploiter combining Shodan/Censys/Zoomeye for target discovery with Metasploit for exploitation. | Bug Bounty & Recon AI | ||
| llm-attacks | Universal and transferable attacks on aligned language models. Academic research on adversarial attacks against LLMs. | Red Team & Offensive AI | ||
| Vulnhuntr | Zero-shot vulnerability discovery using Claude AI. Analyzes Python call chains. Found 12+ zero-days in production code. | Vulnerability Analysis & Scanning | ||
| ai-exploits | Collection of real-world AI/ML exploits for responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities. | Red Team & Offensive AI | ||
| awesome-llm-security | Tools, documents, and projects about LLM Security. | Awesome Lists | ||
| BigBountyRecon | 58 different techniques using Google dorks and open source tools for initial reconnaissance. | Bug Bounty & Recon AI | ||
| ReconAIzer | Burp Suite extension using OpenAI GPT to discover endpoints, params, URLs, and subdomains during bug bounty recon. | Bug Bounty & Recon AI | ||
| MCP-Security-Checklist | Comprehensive security checklist for MCP-based AI tools by SlowMist. Input validation, audit capability, and risk assessment. | MCP Servers for Security | ||
| prompt-injection-defenses | Every practical and proposed defense against prompt injection attacks. Comprehensive reference. | AI Security (Securing AI Systems) | ||
| AI-Goat | Learn AI security through vulnerable LLM CTF challenges. Run locally, no sign-ups or cloud fees needed. | CTF Solvers & Challenge Tools | ||
| ToolFuzz | First framework for testing LLM agent tools. Combines fuzzing with LLMs for correctness evaluation. | Fuzzing with AI/ML | ||
| PentestThinkingMCP | AI pentesting reasoning engine with Beam Search, MCTS, attack scoring for attack path planning and CTF solving. | MCP Servers for Security | ||
| LLM-Security-CTF | Learn LLM/AI security through CTF challenges: prompt injection, jailbreaks, guardrail bypass, tool abuse. | CTF Solvers & Challenge Tools |
Contributions welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before submitting a PR.
Tools listed are for educational purposes and authorized security testing only. Always obtain proper authorization before testing systems you do not own. The maintainers are not responsible for misuse.
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A curated list of AI-powered pentesting tools, frameworks, MCP servers, and resources for autonomous cybersecurity operations
See the codeA curated list of AI-powered tools, frameworks, and resources for penetration testing, bug bounty hunting, red teaming, and cybersecurity operations.
The intersection of Artificial Intelligence and offensive/defensive security is evolving rapidly. This list tracks the most impactful open-source projects that leverage LLMs, machine learning, and autonomous agents for cybersecurity.
Maintained by SkyVanguard — Autonomous AI cybersecurity. Curated by @skyvanguard, TryHackMe Top 1% Global.
📚 Free, hands-on courses on AI pentesting, cybersecurity, AI and vibe coding — in English & Spanish → skyvanguard.com.py/courses
Stars updated: October 2026
Fully autonomous agents that perform end-to-end penetration testing tasks with minimal human intervention.
| Tool | Description | AI Tool | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strix | Open-source AI hackers that run code dynamically, find vulnerabilities, and validate them through actual proof-of-concepts. | Claude API | |
| Shannon | Fully autonomous AI hacker using Claude Agent SDK. 96.15% success rate on XBOW Benchmark. Finds and exploits real vulnerabilities in web apps. | Claude API (Agent SDK) | |
| PentAGI | Fully autonomous AI agents system. Docker sandboxed, 20+ built-in tools (nmap, metasploit, sqlmap), Neo4j knowledge graph. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek) | |
| PentestGPT | Automated penetration testing agentic framework powered by LLMs. Published at USENIX Security 2024. | OpenAI API (GPT-4) | |
| CyberStrikeAI | AI-native security platform in Go combining Eino-powered agents, MCP-native tools, RAG knowledge, and human oversight in one auditable workspace. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI-compatible: OpenAI, DeepSeek, Qwen) | |
| Decepticon | Autonomous hacking agent for red teaming. Modular multi-agent architecture built on LangGraph with MCP tool integration. | Multi-LLM (via LiteLLM) | |
| Cairn | General-purpose state-space search engine validated on autonomous penetration testing: given an origin and a goal, it searches for the attack path. | Claude Code, Codex (worker backends) | |
| PentestAgent | AI agent framework for black-box security testing with prebuilt attack playbooks for bug bounty, red-team, and pentest. | OpenAI API (GPT-4) | |
| CyberStrike | Terminal-based offensive security harness with 13+ specialized agents, 7,600+ security skills, and 120+ OWASP test cases. | Multi-LLM (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, Bedrock) | |
| RedAmon | Self-hosted framework that maps the attack surface into a graph, exploits it from a Kali sandbox behind human approval gates, and opens pull requests that fix what it finds. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, OpenRouter, Ollama) | |
| Pentest-Swarm-AI | Autonomous pentesting with a swarm of AI agents. Orchestrates recon, classification, exploitation, and reporting specialists with ReAct reasoning. Bug bounty, monitoring, and CTF modes. | Claude API | |
| Pentest-AI | AI pentester usable via MCP, CLI, or CI that re-runs each exploit with machine oracles before marking a finding as verified. | Claude Code, Codex, Ollama/local models | |
| Pentest Copilot | AI-powered browser-based ethical hacking assistant with agentic architecture that runs commands in the pentest environment. | OpenAI API | |
| NeuroSploit | AI-powered pentest framework with 100 vulnerability types, isolated Kali containers, 9 specialized agent personas. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Claude, Ollama/local) | |
| LuaN1aoAgent | Cognitive-driven autonomous AI hacker using dual-graph reasoning (causal and attack graphs) for plan-execute-reflect penetration testing. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, DeepSeek, Claude) | |
| hackingBuddyGPT | Academic framework for building LLM-driven ethical hacking agents in ~50 lines of code. Research platform with reproducible privilege-escalation benchmarks. | OpenAI API (GPT-4) | |
| Xalgorix | Self-hosted autonomous pentesting agents for real-time recon, vulnerability detection, and exploit-verified findings with a local web dashboard. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Gemini, Ollama, LiteLLM) | |
| Nebula | AI-powered pentesting assistant for automating recon, note-taking, and vulnerability analysis with human decision checkpoints. | OpenAI API (GPT-4) | |
| Darkmoon | Open source autonomous AI penetration testing platform that orchestrates 80+ offensive tools through Markdown playbooks and MCP controlled execution, covering web, cloud, Active Directory, Kubernetes and API with an evidence trail per finding. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama/local) | |
| Cybermes | Offensive security and bug bounty agent framework with 200+ playbooks, a native Go MCP server, and a standalone CLI driven by Hermes Agent. | Hermes Agent, MCP clients (Claude, Gemini) | |
| PentestCode | Multi-agent terminal pentesting agent that runs tools, keeps persistent engagement state, and chains attacks toward a stated goal. | Multi-LLM (20+ providers incl. Claude, OpenAI, Ollama) | |
| numasec | Terminal AI security agent that drives your local tools with runbooks, keeps operation context, and tracks findings, evidence, and reports. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter, Ollama) | |
| ARTEMIS | ARTEMIS is an autonomous agent created by the Stanford Trinity project to automate vulnerability discovery. | OpenAI API (GPT-4) | |
| AIDA | AI-Driven Security Assessment that connects AI to 400+ pentesting tools via MCP (Exegol container), enabling natural language-driven security workflows. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI, Claude, Ollama via MCP) | |
| Zen-AI-Pentest | Autonomous multi-agent pentest framework integrating 72+ security tools with a React dashboard, REST API, and CLI. | Multi-LLM (DeepSeek, GPT-4o, Claude, Llama) | |
| BugTraceAI | Open-source multi-agent platform for authorized web application security testing with validation, evidence capture, and reporting. | Multi-LLM | |
| cyber-harness | Single-binary agent runtime for pentest, red team, and bug bounty that bundles scanners, proxy routing, skills, and a source-code audit distribution. | Multi-LLM (OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible, DeepSeek) |
Model Context Protocol servers that bridge AI assistants with cybersecurity tools.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| REA | Local CLI and MCP tools for agent-assisted reverse engineering of native binaries, JavaScript/Electron apps, and .NET assemblies, with evidence provenance; native deep analysis uses separately installed Hopper, Ghidra, or IDA. | |
| IDA Pro MCP | AI-powered reverse engineering assistant that bridges IDA Pro with LLMs through MCP. | |
| HexStrike AI | Advanced MCP server with 150+ cybersecurity tools. Lets AI agents autonomously run pentesting, vuln discovery, and bug bounty tools. | |
| Ghidra MCP | Ghidra MCP server with 200+ tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering, available as GUI plugin or headless server. | |
| Burp Suite MCP Server | Official PortSwigger extension that integrates Burp Suite with AI clients through MCP. | |
| MCP Scanner | Cisco AI Defense scanner that inspects MCP servers for threats and security findings. | |
| mcp-security-hub | 36 MCP servers with 175+ tools: Nmap, Ghidra, Nuclei, SQLMap, Hashcat. Recon, web sec, binary analysis, blockchain, AD. | |
| JADX MCP Server | MCP server for the JADX-AI plugin enabling LLM-assisted Android APK reverse engineering. | |
| awesome-mcp-security | Curated collection of MCP security resources: tools, papers, videos, articles, and vulnerability information. | |
| Google Security MCP | MCP servers that give AI clients access to Google Security Operations (Chronicle), Threat Intelligence, and other Google security products. | |
| pentestMCP | AI-powered penetration testing via MCP. 20+ security assessment tools (Nmap, Nuclei, ZAP, SQLMap) through MCP protocol. | |
| awesome-cyber-security-mcp | Curated list of MCP servers focused on cybersecurity operations. | |
| mcp-server-security-standard | Open, testable security control standard (MSSS) for certifying MCP servers with levels and evidence requirements. | |
| Bolt | Docker-based MCP server exposing 100+ Kali Linux security tools as plugins. Successor of mcp-for-security. | |
| mcp-vanguard | Security pentesting MCP Server with 22 tools. Windows/WSL bridge for Kali tools integration with Claude. | |
| DomScan | Hosted domain intelligence MCP for DNS, WHOIS/RDAP, TLS, subdomains, reputation, email security, and typosquatting. |
AI-enhanced tools for reconnaissance and bug bounty automation.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Nuclei | Fast vulnerability scanner with YAML-based DSL. AI-powered template generation via -ai flag. 10k+ community templates. | |
| Sn1per | Attack surface management platform combining automated scanning with intelligent analysis. | |
| awesome-bugbounty-tools | Curated list of bug bounty tools including AI-enhanced scanners and recon automation frameworks. | |
| Agentic Bug Hunter | AI bug bounty toolkit that runs recon, finding, validation, and reporting from a CLI or inside Claude Code, with free or subscription AI providers. | |
| Claude-BugHunter | Claude Code skill bundle for bug hunting and external red teaming: 80+ skills, 15 slash commands, and 681 disclosed-report patterns. | |
| Mantis | Security framework automating discovery, reconnaissance, and vulnerability scanning. Chains multiple tools from domain input. | |
| HackBot | AI-powered cybersecurity chatbot using LLaMA for code analysis, scan analysis, and cybersecurity Q&A. | |
| Julius | Praetorian's LLM service fingerprinting tool that identifies Ollama, vLLM, LiteLLM, and 60+ AI servers on network endpoints. |
AI tools for solving Capture The Flag competitions and security challenges.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Project Muteki | Multi-agent CTF-solving swarm where a coordinator schedules several CLI agent engines toward a single goal. | |
| BoxPwnr | Framework for benchmarking LLMs and agentic strategies on HackTheBox, PortSwigger, picoCTF, TryHackMe, and other CTF platforms. | |
| EnIGMA | Enhanced Interactive Generative Model Agent. State-of-the-art on NYU CTF and CyBench. 3x more challenges than prior agents. (ICML 2025) | Paper |
| CTFAgent | LLM-powered CTF solver with plan-and-execute paradigm. Outperforms 88% of human CTF participants. | Paper |
| CSAW LLM CTF Attack Competition | CSAW competition using generative autonomous AI to solve CTF challenges. Major academic AI security benchmark. | Competition |
| Cybench | Framework for evaluating LLM agents on 40 professional-level CTF tasks from 4 competitions. | |
| ChatGPT on CTF | Research testing whether AI-LLMs can solve CTF challenges by running commands in test environments. |
AI-powered vulnerability discovery and code analysis tools.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| SkillSpector | NVIDIA's security scanner for AI agent skills. Detects vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, and prompt injection before a skill is installed. | |
| Semgrep | Lightweight static analysis for finding bugs and enforcing code standards with AI pattern matching. | |
| Codex Security | OpenAI's CLI and TypeScript SDK for defining security policy and finding, validating, and fixing vulnerabilities in code. | |
| Garak | NVIDIA's LLM vulnerability scanner. Probes for hallucination, data leakage, prompt injection, toxicity, and jailbreaks. | |
| agent-scan | Snyk's security scanner for AI agents, MCP servers and agent skills. Detects prompt injections and tool poisoning. | |
| open-kritt | Self-hosted platform that orchestrates AI agents to find, de-duplicate, rank, and validate vulnerabilities in code. | |
| Agentic Security | LLM vulnerability scanner / AI red teaming kit. Protects AI systems from jailbreaks, fuzzing, and multimodal attacks. | |
| AutoCVE | Agent-driven CVE discovery pipeline that selects projects, audits source code, verifies vulnerabilities, and writes reports. | |
| LLM SAST Skills | Agent skills that turn Claude Code, Codex, and other coding assistants into a SAST scanner for web and mobile codebases. | |
| AgentShield | Security auditor for AI agent configurations: hardcoded secrets, permission misconfigs, hook injection, and MCP server risks. | |
| Agentic Radar | Security scanner for agentic systems. Workflow visualization, tool identification, MCP server detection, vulnerability mapping. | |
| MEDUSA | AI-first security scanner with 40,000+ detection patterns for AI/ML apps, agents, and LLM integrations. | |
| ModelScan | Scans ML models for unsafe code. Supports H5, Pickle, SavedModel, and more formats. | |
| DockSec | OWASP AI-powered Docker security scanner that explains vulnerabilities in plain English. | |
| agentgg | Agentic white-box SAST scanner whose agents follow imports and call graphs to confirm findings before reporting. CI ready. | |
| OpenHack | Agentic security scanner and verifier for codebases that exclusively uses open-source models. | |
| NVIDIA Vulnerability Analysis | NVIDIA blueprint for identifying and mitigating container security vulnerabilities with generative AI. | |
| rust-in-peace | Agent-assisted vulnerability discovery for Rust with adversarial triage, dynamic verification, and an experimental Android APK analysis profile. |
Offensive AI tools, adversarial ML, and AI red teaming frameworks.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Promptfoo | LLM red teaming, pentesting, and vuln scanning with 100+ attack types. Tests complete AI systems including RAG and agents. | |
| Social-Engineer-Toolkit | Open-source penetration testing framework designed for social engineering. | |
| Caldera | Automated adversary emulation platform with AI-driven attack planning. Originally by MITRE, now an Apache project. | |
| Adversarial Robustness Toolbox | IBM's Python library for ML Security: evasion, poisoning, extraction, inference attacks and defenses. | |
| PyRIT | Microsoft's Python Risk Identification Tool for red teaming generative AI systems. | |
| DeepTeam | Framework for red teaming LLMs. 10+ adversarial attacks, supports OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and NIST AI RMF. | |
| pentest-ai-agents | 50 Claude Code subagents for authorized penetration testing and offensive security research. | |
| offensive-ai-compilation | Curated list of Offensive AI resources: tools, techniques, research papers, and attack methodologies. | |
| Anamorpher | Trail of Bits tool for crafting image-scaling attacks that deliver multimodal prompt injection. | |
| EasyJailbreak | Python framework to generate adversarial jailbreak prompts against LLMs. | |
| OPFOR | Adversary emulation for AI agents and MCP servers, usable from the CLI, the IDE, or a browser extension. | |
| AgentHound | Offensive framework for agentic infrastructure: recon, credential looting, model exfiltration, and poisoning across MCP, A2A, gateways, and vector stores. | |
| Augustus | Praetorian's Go-based LLM vulnerability scanner with 210+ adversarial attacks: prompt injection, jailbreaks, encoding exploits, and data extraction. | |
| Spikee | Reversec's modular kit for testing LLMs, guardrails, and applications against prompt injection and jailbreaks. |
AI tools for defense, detection, and incident response.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Wazuh | Open-source security monitoring with AI-enhanced threat detection, SIEM, and XDR. | |
| Sigma | Generic signature format for SIEM systems with AI-powered rule creation. | |
| Falco | Cloud Native Runtime Security by CNCF. Detects threats across containers, hosts, K8s, and cloud. | |
| Guardrails AI | Adding guardrails to LLMs. Input/output validation, content moderation, and PII detection. | |
| NeMo Guardrails | NVIDIA's toolkit for programmable guardrails on LLM systems. Content moderation, jailbreak detection. | |
| Redcells | Automated adversarial testing platform for LLMs you own or control. Runs structured red-team jobs (prompt injection, jailbreak, data leakage, etc.) with iterative attack→refine layers and per-layer judge scoring via web dashboard or API. | Repo |
| Shuffle | Open-source SOAR platform for security automation and orchestration. | |
| AiSOC | Self-hostable AI Security Operations Center with alert fusion, LLM-agent triage, and MITRE ATT&CK investigation. | |
| Beelzebub | Deception framework for realistic decoys, with LLM-powered responses that sustain attacker interaction. | |
| GhostWriter | Report management platform for red/blue team operations with AI-assisted analysis. | |
| AttackGen | Incident response testing tool that uses LLMs with MITRE ATT&CK and ATLAS to generate tailored attack scenarios. | |
| STRIDE GPT | AI-powered threat modeling tool that generates STRIDE threat models and attack trees for an application. | |
| numbat | Perplexity's endpoint visibility into AI agent activity, with local detection, optional pre-action blocking, and forensic reconstruction. | |
| Agent Threat Rules | Open, executable detection rule format for AI agent threats, like Sigma for agents. |
Tools for defending AI/LLM systems against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and emerging threats.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| AI-Infra-Guard | Tencent's full-stack AI red teaming platform that scans agents, skills, MCP servers, and AI infrastructure. | |
| Superagent | SDK for AI agent safety: blocks prompt injection, redacts PII and secrets, and runs red team scenarios against agents. | |
| PurpleLlama | Meta's tools to assess and improve LLM security: CyberSecEval benchmarks, Llama Guard, Prompt Guard, and Code Shield. | |
| nono | Zero-setup sandbox that isolates AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, and more) with fine-grained, policy-controlled permissions. | |
| ADR | Uber's Agentic AI Detection and Response system for securing employee-facing agents like Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex. MLSys 2026. | |
| Pipelock | AI agent firewall that inspects HTTP, WebSocket, MCP, and A2A traffic for secret exfiltration and prompt injection. | |
| API Relay Audit | Local CLI auditing third-party AI relays and LLM proxies for prompt-injection signals, package-command text changes, error-response leakage, and Anthropic SSE anomalies, with Markdown reports. | |
| Arcanum PI Taxonomy | Interactive classification of prompt injection and LLM attacks for pentesters moving into AI red teaming. | |
| ZeroLeaks | CLI that red-teams LLM system prompts and agent instructions for prompt injection and extraction. | |
| Open-Prompt-Injection | Toolkit and benchmark for implementing and evaluating prompt injection attacks and defenses. | |
| mcp-context-protector | Trail of Bits security wrapper for untrusted MCP servers: config pinning, line-jumping and tool-poisoning protection. | |
| Awesome-LLMSecOps | LLM Security Operations in one repo. Curated links covering the full LLMSecOps lifecycle. | |
| parry-guard | Prompt injection scanner for AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex). Runs DeBERTa/Llama transformers locally in Rust via Candle or ONNX. |
Machine learning-guided fuzzing and automated test generation tools.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| AFL++ | Superior fork of AFL with ML-guided mutation strategies. Industry standard for fuzzing. | |
| Buttercup | Trail of Bits' Cyber Reasoning System for DARPA AIxCC. Finds vulnerabilities with fuzzing and patches them with LLMs. | |
| FuzzyAI | CyberArk's automated LLM fuzzing tool for finding jailbreaks and security vulnerabilities in LLM APIs. | |
| OSS-Fuzz-Gen | Google's LLM-powered fuzzing via OSS-Fuzz. Generates fuzz targets for C/C++. 29% max line coverage increase. | |
| EvoMaster | First open-source AI-driven tool for system-level test generation. Evolutionary algorithms for REST, GraphQL, RPC. | |
| Atlantis | Team Atlanta's Cyber Reasoning System from the DARPA AIxCC Final Competition for automated vulnerability discovery. | |
| OSS-CRS | OpenSSF framework for building and running LLM-based autonomous bug-finding and bug-fixing systems. |
AI tools for automated penetration testing report creation.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| PwnDoc | Pentest report generator for findings and customizable Docx reports with templates. | |
| SysReptor | Customizable pentest reporting platform with AI-assisted writing and finding descriptions. | |
| APTRS | Automated Pentest Reporting System. Python/Django-based. PDF/Excel generation, project tracking. | |
| Faction | Pen test report generation and assessment collaboration platform. |
AI-powered Open Source Intelligence tools.
| Tool | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Sherlock | Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400+ social networks. | |
| GHunt | Offensive Google framework for OSINT. | |
| theHarvester | E-mails, subdomains and names harvester for OSINT. | |
| Recon-ng | Full-featured web reconnaissance framework with modular design. | |
| OpenOSINT | AI-powered OSINT agent with 20 tools, usable as an interactive REPL, MCP server, CLI, or web interface. | |
| Taranis AI | Advanced OSINT tool using NLP-powered news collection and AI for situational analysis. | |
| OSINTGPT | OSINT analysis tool leveraging GPT embeddings and vector search for document similarity. |
| List | Description | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| awesome-pentest | General pentesting resources. | |
| Awesome-LLM4Cybersecurity | LLMs for cybersecurity: pentesting reasoning, exploit generation, vulnerability detection. | |
| awesome-ai-security-tools | Public-source, research, and commercial tools for AI security and AI-assisted cybersecurity. | |
| AI-Red-Teaming-Guide | Guide to adversarial testing and security evaluation of AI systems. | |
| Awesome-AI-Hacking-Agents | List of AI hacking agents. | |
| awesome-cybersecurity-agentic-ai | Autonomous security agents, frameworks, and research. | |
| awesome-skills-security | Curated skill set of security-focused Claude Code skills. | |
| Awesome-Offensive-AI-Agentic-Landscape | Open-source projects, papers, benchmarks, and commercial solutions in offensive agentic AI. | |
| awesome-ai-cybersecurity | Resources for AI in cybersecurity. Collection for professionals and researchers. |
Projects with no commits in the last 12 months. Still useful as reference, but expect bugs, outdated dependencies, or broken integrations.
| Tool | Description | Original Category | Last Commit | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SpiderFoot | Automated OSINT platform. 200+ data sources, threat surface mapping, most modules need no API keys. | OSINT with AI | ||
| Awesome-GPT-Agents | GPT agents for cybersecurity: offensive, defensive, and analytical. | Awesome Lists | ||
| AutoSploit | Automated mass exploiter combining Shodan/Censys/Zoomeye for target discovery with Metasploit for exploitation. | Bug Bounty & Recon AI | ||
| llm-attacks | Universal and transferable attacks on aligned language models. Academic research on adversarial attacks against LLMs. | Red Team & Offensive AI | ||
| Vulnhuntr | Zero-shot vulnerability discovery using Claude AI. Analyzes Python call chains. Found 12+ zero-days in production code. | Vulnerability Analysis & Scanning | ||
| ai-exploits | Collection of real-world AI/ML exploits for responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities. | Red Team & Offensive AI | ||
| awesome-llm-security | Tools, documents, and projects about LLM Security. | Awesome Lists | ||
| BigBountyRecon | 58 different techniques using Google dorks and open source tools for initial reconnaissance. | Bug Bounty & Recon AI | ||
| ReconAIzer | Burp Suite extension using OpenAI GPT to discover endpoints, params, URLs, and subdomains during bug bounty recon. | Bug Bounty & Recon AI | ||
| MCP-Security-Checklist | Comprehensive security checklist for MCP-based AI tools by SlowMist. Input validation, audit capability, and risk assessment. | MCP Servers for Security | ||
| prompt-injection-defenses | Every practical and proposed defense against prompt injection attacks. Comprehensive reference. | AI Security (Securing AI Systems) | ||
| AI-Goat | Learn AI security through vulnerable LLM CTF challenges. Run locally, no sign-ups or cloud fees needed. | CTF Solvers & Challenge Tools | ||
| ToolFuzz | First framework for testing LLM agent tools. Combines fuzzing with LLMs for correctness evaluation. | Fuzzing with AI/ML | ||
| PentestThinkingMCP | AI pentesting reasoning engine with Beam Search, MCTS, attack scoring for attack path planning and CTF solving. | MCP Servers for Security | ||
| LLM-Security-CTF | Learn LLM/AI security through CTF challenges: prompt injection, jailbreaks, guardrail bypass, tool abuse. | CTF Solvers & Challenge Tools |
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