HOW TO BUILD AN OFFENSIVE AI SECURITY AGENT

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This post walks through the process of building a POC for an offensive AI security agent that was able to analyze a JavaScript file to discover API endpoints and detect a vulnerability. The author provided the AI agent with 4 “tools” to find endpoints, format an API request, execute the test, and analyze the results. The post also provides some lessons learned, such as the importance of effective prompting, the power of agentic workflows, and the strengths of Claude 3.5 Sonnet for code writing.