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AI Pentest Agents Part 1: From Assistant to Autonomous Swarm
A new wave of AI pentesting agents landed in the space of two weeks in July 2026. This opens a series on what they actually do, how they differ from each other, and how they differ from the raw LLM-plus-nmap-plus-Metasploit approach this site already tried in AI Part 7.
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AI Pentest Agents Part 2: Inside PentestCode's Coordinator and Engagement State
A close read of PentestCode's actual README: the strategist-coordinator design, the thirteen agents, the engagement-state graph with Dijkstra/Yen's K-shortest attack paths, the eighteen mandatory tools, and the honest limitations section the project ships with itself.
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AI Pentest Agents Part 7: Installing PentestCode, and Where the Sandbox Runs Out of Road
The sandbox verified PentestCode's root-free install claim, then ran out of road on an LLM credential. The real run happened on the Proxmox lab: three independent root vectors on Metasploitable2, $9.64, and a critic agent that caught a real technical error.