GH05TCREW/pentestagent
PentestAgent is an AI agent framework for black-box security testing, supporting bug bounty, red-team, and penetration testing workflows.
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
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The project lists 10 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #84 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 22, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides an AI-driven framework for autonomous and assisted black-box penetration testing and red-team security workflows.
- Enables multi-agent orchestration and integration with external pentesting tools via Model Context Protocol for extensible, automated security assessments.
- Use for conducting black-box security testing and vulnerability discovery in bug bounty programs with AI assistance.
- Use for automating complex red-team operations by coordinating multiple specialized AI agents to simulate advanced attack scenarios.
- Use for integrating and running traditional pentesting tools like nmap, metasploit, and sqlmap within an AI-powered testing environment using Docker.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
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From the README
Run tools inside a Docker container for isolation and pre-installed pentesting tools.
The container runs PentestAgent with access to Linux pentesting tools. The agent can use
nmap,msfconsole,sqlmap, etc. directly via the terminal tool.Requires Docker to be installed and running.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
647+68
Open issues
36+12
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| GH05TCREW/pentestagent | 3.2K | — | 12 | — |
| Category median | 98.1K | +5.2K | 45 | — |
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