CSChris Sheridaninhalosecurityhasnodedev.hashnode.dev·20h ago · 5 min readI Built a Fully Local, Autonomous AI Pentesting Agent — Now I’m Teaching It to Speak MCP ⚠️ Everything here is for authorized security testing and research only — systems you own or have explicit written permission to test. A few months ago I set myself a stubborn goal: build a penetratio00
CSChris Sheridaninhalosecurityhasnodedev.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 5 min readYour autonomous agent will lie to you about successI’m building an autonomous pentesting agent. Last week it told me an attack succeeded. It hadn’t. The bug that let it lie is one every agent builder will hit eventually, so here’s the story and the fi00
CSChris Sheridaninhalosecurityhasnodedev.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 3 min readWiring Real Agents Into Halo: From Stub Orchestrator to a Working Multi-Agent Pentest Pipeline Yesterday I had five agent roles sketched out on paper. Today I actually wired them together and watched them run a real engagement against a live target — and immediately hit (and fixed) the kind of 00
CSChris Sheridaninhalosecurityhasnodedev.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 5 min readAi is doing it again: Strong armed by AI for Bitcoin JADEPUFFER is the world’s first documented case of an end-to-end autonomous, "agentic" ransomware campaign driven entirely by a Large Language Model (LLM) agent. Discovered and published by the Sysdig00
CSChris Sheridaninhalosecurityhasnodedev.hashnode.dev·3d ago · 3 min readBuilding Halo’s Multi-Agent Architecture: From Single Loop to Five Specialists Today I moved Halo from a single autonomous loop to a proper five-agent architecture: Planner, Orchestrator, Vulnerability Discovery, Attacker, and Debugger. Here’s how it came together, and what I le00
