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New tool Pentest Anything restricts AI agents from unauthorized security scans

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A new open-source tool called Pentest Anything (PTA) has been developed to allow AI coding agents to perform security scans without the risk of them autonomously targeting unapproved systems. Written in Node.js, PTA orchestrates established security scanners like Semgrep, Trivy, Nuclei, and SQLMap, enforcing human-defined scopes and guardrails through code. This ensures that AI agents can assist with security checks while critical decisions about what to scan remain under human control, preventing accidental or malicious unauthorized access. AI

IMPACT Enhances AI agent safety by preventing unauthorized security scans and ensuring human oversight.

RANK_REASON The item describes a new open-source tool that integrates with existing AI agents and security scanners.

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New tool Pentest Anything restricts AI agents from unauthorized security scans

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Sammy Yohan Ossoriah ·

    Letting an AI agent run security scanners without letting it choose the targets

    <p>Hi, AI coding agents are good at running tools now, including Semgrep, Nuclei and SQLMap. That is useful, and slightly uncomfortable. An agent that can launch an active scanner can also be pointed at a host nobody approved, either by a careless instruction or by text hidden in…

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