47 results for “Markdown”

A thread on Cloudflare's agent-readiness scan and the AgentReady.org open spec for "Agent Experience", developed with Vercel, Stripe, Auth0, Mintlify, Google, Netlify and Elementor. The scan grades whether agents can find a site (robots.txt, DNS), read clean Markdown, pass bot rules, and discover an MCP server or API catalog. One quoted example raised a score from 20 to 67 by shipping an API catalog with Link headers, an MCP server card, a skills index and an AI catalog file.

x.comthreadAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Thread on Forever Security's finding that a planted Markdown "Engineering Work Guidelines" file in ~/Downloads made Codex add a "project-tools" MCP server to ~/.codex/config.toml. The server ran npm install function-color, a known malicious package, and started a child session with --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox. Codex complied in over 90% of the firm's tests; Claude Code, via a CLAUDE.md setting ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, about half. Advice: don't start agents in Downloads, review instruction files, and diff agent config.

x.comthreadAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Shannon is a white-box AI pentester (@keygraph/shannon) that analyzes an application's source code, then attacks the running instance and reports only findings with a working PoC. The Hackers Arise tutorial runs it against OWASP Juice Shop in Docker on Kali, using OpenRouter (free Nemotron) and local Ollama (Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B) via a models.json file. Output includes PDF, Markdown, JSON and SARIF reports.

hackers-arise.comarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

A reviewer tests GenOffice, an open-source Office suite (10.7k GitHub stars), through its CLI only. Markdown to .docx took 3.8s, JSON to .xlsx took 0.9s with a live SUM formula, and .docx to PDF failed twice until Xvfb supplied a display. It has byte-preserving edits, a skill file for Claude Code and Codex, and 29 MCP tools. Downsides: a 188MB download that filled a 512MB /tmp, Electron in the PDF path, and unproven trust in tracked changes and rollback.

x.comthreadAdded 25 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026🧠 AI

DeepSeek Search & Fetch are two JSON APIs for agents and RAG apps. Search (/v1/tools/search) returns structured results from DeepSeek's in-house engine, with count, need_content and operators such as site:, lang: and after:. Fetch (/v1/tools/fetch) returns a page as Markdown. Both use bearer auth, bill only successful requests ($0.75 per 1000), and have account-level QPS limits. Calls from DeepSeek Harness, Claude Code or Codex are free until 1 November 2026.

api-docs.deepseek.comotherAdded 19 Oct 2026, published 18 Oct 2026🧠 AI

KYB (Know Your Business) is a Rust/axum server that stores agent-written knowledge, incident reports and tasks as Markdown files in Git, one commit per change. Search is hybrid: Tantivy BM25 fused by reciprocal rank with local multilingual-e5-small ONNX vectors, and it can query historical versions or "as of" a date. It ships a kyb CLI, a native MCP endpoint (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Gemini CLI), an installable agent skill, token auth with per-write attribution trailers, secret scanning on writes, and a web console. It targets persistent shared operational memory for multi-agent, multi-machine fleets.

github.comrepoAdded 17 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Simon Willison describes using Claude Code (Opus 5.5) to build a browser LaTeX renderer inspired by Tiny Little Office, which stores document data in the URL #fragment and ships an llms.txt so agents can construct document links. He lists the prompts: fragment-hash rendering, a custom compression dictionary for LaTeX, an iframe sandbox against XSS copied from his SVG-in-Markdown tool, and loading from a URL or Gist. The finished tool uses Pako 2.1.0, MathJax 4.1.3, faster-latex 0.3.1 and DOMPurify 3.4.16.

simonwillison.netarticleAdded 16 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026🧠 AI

BrowseSafe++ extends BrowseSafe to 38,675 paired attacked/clean web pages, most with prompt injections observed in the wild on production sites. Pages cover twelve site types, 24 attack types and 18 injection locations, each given as HTML, Markdown, accessibility tree and screenshot with a user task and expected answer. The authors train BrowseSafe-Guard, two 0.8B detectors (text and screenshot) that beat a frontier-model-based detector on F1 with low false positives and low inference cost. BrowseSafe-Adapt rewrites injections using browser-agent feedback, raising attack success from a few percent to up to 95.41%.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 15 Oct 2026, published 12 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Announcement of jevmem, an open-source MIT plugin that gives Claude Code, Cursor and Codex persistent project memory. After each turn it asks Jev (a TypeSafe AI model) whether anything is worth keeping (a rule, decision, failure, or to-do) and writes one line to a plain Markdown file tracked in git. It also checks commands against saved rules before they run and asks first, or blocks. Reported results: Claude followed the rule in 66 of 72 sessions vs 28 without it, the right save/skip call on 98.5% of 66 turns, and 66 of 68 rule-breaking commands caught out of 274 test commands. Listed in Anthropic's Claude plugin directory and on the MCP Registry.

x.comthreadPublished and added 10 Oct 2026🧠 AI

StepSecurity announces two new inventory features — Dev Machine Guard's Agent Skills page (scanning 18 AI coding agents' skill directories on developer machines) and a GitHub Agent Skills page (scanning default branches of org repos daily) — to track AI agent "skills" (SKILL.md folders with optional scripts/hooks) across an organization. The post frames skills as a supply-chain surface because they can execute shell commands, pre-approve tool permissions via allowed-tools frontmatter (bypassing Claude Code's workspace trust gate), and look like harmless Markdown documentation in PR review, citing the Miasma worm, s1ngularity, and the Cline v2.3.0 compromise as precedent for this attack class. It details inventory features like content-hash comparison across devices, provenance tracing via skills.sh/skills-lock.json, and filters for shell/hooks/code execution flags to prioritize review.

stepsecurity.ioarticlePublished and added 8 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Simon Willison's linkblog entry on the release of Mistral Large 4, built around a Hacker News comment arguing that standard benchmarks are saturated. The commenter demonstrates this by running the identical whimsical prompt, Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars, through Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Mistral Large 4 via Willison's llm CLI tool, then compares the rendered SVGs at each model's default reasoning level using his markdown-svg-renderer tool.

simonwillison.netarticlePublished and added 6 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Release notes for garak v0.17.0, NVIDIA's open-source LLM vulnerability scanner used for red-teaming and probing models for jailbreaks, prompt injection, data leakage and other failure modes. The release adds an EU AI Act risk-category mapping to tag and group probe results, plus fixes to detectors (agent_breaker judge verdict validation, packagehallucination import parsing, MarkdownExfilContent divide-by-zero, TriggerListDetector alignment) and probes (badchars ASCII selection, Markdown exfiltration link templates), along with Ollama generator improvements and dropped Python 3.10 support in favor of 3.13.

github.comrepoAdded 29 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

garak is NVIDIA's open-source LLM vulnerability scanner that runs probes/detectors for jailbreaks, prompt injection, PII leakage, package hallucination, markdown exfiltration and more against LLM targets. This v0.17.0 release adds a new EU AI Act risk-category mapping to tag and group probe results by the Act's risk categories, alongside fixes to the agent_breaker judge, markdown-exfiltration detectors, Ollama auth/generation support, and dropped Python 3.10 in favor of 3.13 support.

github.comrepoAdded 26 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

Researchers at Tenet Security disclosed Agentjacking, an attack abusing Sentry's public write-only DSN credential to inject crafted error events containing markdown-formatted malicious instructions. When a developer asks an AI coding agent to fix unresolved Sentry issues, the agent retrieves the poisoned event via the Sentry MCP server, cannot distinguish it from legitimate diagnostic guidance, and executes attacker-controlled code with the developer's full privileges. Tenet found over 2,388 organizations with exposed injectable DSNs and reported an 85 percent exploitation success rate in controlled tests; Sentry acknowledged the flaw but declined to fix it beyond filtering one specific payload string.

thehackernews.comarticleAdded 26 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

Burke Holland (GitHub) argues that chat is often the wrong interface for working with AI coding agents and introduces "canvas" — a feature in the GitHub Copilot app that spins up a small full-stack application with no browser chrome, which can call third-party APIs or run code locally while exchanging messages bidirectionally with the Copilot agent. He walks through concrete canvases: a playable Connect 4 game against the agent, a Winget package browser/installer, a SQLite query UI with IntelliSense, a Markdown-to-Windows-Live-Writer-style blog editor, and a full development-workflow automation canvas that removes the human from the loop between research, prototyping and review steps. The piece frames this as a general lesson for agent builders: build a reusable tool the agent and user can both interact with, rather than burning tokens asking the agent to perform every repetitive action through chat.

github.blogarticleAdded 8 Oct 2026, published 24 Sep 2026🧠 AI

AKCA is an open-source, Go-based Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) scanner that combines HTTP and headless-browser crawling, JavaScript/AST analysis, API spec import (OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.), and adaptive active testing across a very broad set of vulnerability classes including SQL injection, XSS, SSRF, IDOR/BOLA, SSTI, JWT/OAuth flaws, race conditions, and cloud/CI exposure. It emphasizes evidence-oriented verification — replaying promising signals against baselines, negative controls, and OAST callbacks before promoting them to findings — and exports Burp-style HTTP evidence in HTML, JSON, CSV, Markdown, and SARIF reports. Positioned as a transparent, single-developer alternative inspired by but not claiming parity with Acunetix, Invicti/Netsparker, or Burp Suite Professional.

github.comrepoAdded 2 Oct 2026, published 23 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

Changelog for version 0.36 of Simon Willison's `llm` command-line tool: adds support for new OpenAI models gpt-6-sol and gpt-6-luna, lets model plugins declare supports_conversation = False so single-turn-only models raise llm.ConversationNotSupported instead of silently accepting chat history (first used by the llm-typesafe plugin), and wraps reasoning traces in collapsible details/summary tags in the Markdown output of `llm logs`. These are small but practical improvements to a popular open-source CLI for scripting and logging LLM interactions across providers.

simonwillison.netarticleAdded 29 Sep 2026, published 22 Sep 2026🧠 AI

WordPress-Security-Skills is a GitHub repo of modular 'Agent Skills' (per the open Agent Skills spec) that install into AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, and Gemini CLI to guide secure-by-default WordPress plugin/theme development and security code review. Each skill targets a documented failure mode in AI-generated WordPress code — missing nonce checks, broken authorization, missing output escaping, unprepared SQL queries — with when-to-use guidance, common AI mistakes (wrong vs right), code examples, and checklists tied to official WordPress API references. It is explicitly instructional Markdown/PHP reference material, not a scanner or automatic protection, meant for developers and reviewers auditing AI-written or third-party WordPress code.

github.comrepoAdded 22 Sep 2026, published 15 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

MassPIIFinder v2 is a Python recon tool that automates crawling a target's in-scope JavaScript (multi-hop HTML crawl, dynamic imports, chunk manifests, sourcemaps, plus optional passive CT-log subdomain discovery) and mines it for API keys, tokens, credentials, internal endpoints, and PII using ~90 named patterns plus a high-entropy freeform heuristic. Findings are validated offline (Luhn checks, JWT decode, AWS key-shape) and via scope-checked, rate-limited reachability probes, then triaged by severity and exported as JSON/HTML/SARIF/Markdown/CSV. It enforces authorization with a required --confirm-authorized flag and a ScopeGuard that blocks any out-of-scope requests, and explicitly avoids testing leaked keys against third-party providers or exploiting findings.

github.comrepoAdded 22 Sep 2026, published 15 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

Proofpoint details "BlueMoon," a novel exploit kit chaining a Chrome V8 type-confusion RCE (CVE-2026-85046), a V8 sandbox escape via WebAssembly metadata corruption (CVE-2026-87491), and a Windows kernel LPE (CVE-2026-85880) to break out of the browser sandbox. Within days of first use by China-aligned TA412 (28 Aug 2026), the kit was independently adopted by UNK_LateNight (delivering ShadowPad to US aerospace targets), UNK_DoubleCheck (Rust-based loader against a Vietnamese manufacturer), and UNK_QuietRacket (custom malware against Indonesia/Singapore government and finance targets). The piece analyzes exploit internals (Maglev/TurboFan JIT bug, reflective DLL loading, ALPC/WNF kernel exploitation), flags artifacts suggesting AI-assisted exploit development (debug comments, handover markdown files, v8CTF references), profiles the GemStone Chromium-extension credential-theft backdoor deployed via Secure Preferences forgery, and provides IOCs, ET rules, and a YARA rule for detection.

proofpoint.comwriteupAdded 26 Sep 2026, published 9 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

GhostJS is an open-source Burp Suite extension by TrinetLayer that passively scans JavaScript, HTML, and JSON responses flowing through Burp for hardcoded secrets (AWS/GCP/Azure keys, Stripe/PayPal/GitHub tokens, JWTs, private keys, etc.) and hidden API endpoints, surfacing findings in a dedicated tab with severity, confidence scoring, remediation guidance, and Markdown export. It also actively fetches referenced <script> bundles using the tester's live session cookies and applies a false-positive filter to suppress doc-sample and placeholder keys, making it a practical recon aid during authorized web app pentests and bug bounty work.

github.comrepoPublished and added 7 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

vet is an open-source CLI (from SafeDep) that scans package manifests, SBOMs, container images, and source repos across npm, PyPI, Maven, Go, RubyGems, Cargo, and Packagist to surface vulnerabilities, malicious packages, and license/quality issues. It cuts through CVE noise by analyzing actual code-usage evidence, queries SafeDep Cloud's threat-intelligence database for real-time malware detection (e.g. flagged packages like express-cookie-parser, eslint-config-airbnb-compat), and lets teams enforce security/license/OpenSSF-Scorecard policies as CEL expressions in CI/CD via SARIF/JSON/Markdown reporting.

github.comrepoPublished and added 7 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

Unit 42 details an incident response engagement in which a threat actor used frontier AI models and custom agentic AI frameworks to compress a multi-week intrusion into under 10 hours, executing over 50 MITRE ATT&CK techniques largely autonomously. The AI agents mapped internal microservices after breaching a public web service, harvested hard-coded secrets from code repositories, escalated to root via a secrets manager, hijacked CI/CD pipelines to exfiltrate cloud keys (attempting but failing to backdoor Terraform via branch protection), and ultimately hijacked the victim's own cloud AI endpoints as post-compromise infrastructure. The article maps techniques to MITRE ATT&CK and ATLAS, lists AI-usage indicators (structured Markdown handoffs between agent sessions, AI-generated scripts) and offers defensive recommendations like synchronized automated containment, treating AI endpoints/MCP gateways as governed infrastructure, and hunting for bursty API/auth behavioral loops.

unit42.paloaltonetworks.comwriteupAdded 8 Sep 2026, published 2 Sep 2026🛡️ Security

agentgg is an open-source, agentic SAST scanner that uses LLM agents to read source code, follow imports, trace the call graph, and confirm findings before reporting — aiming to reduce the pattern-matching false positives of traditional SAST. It runs locally or as a hosted service, supports full-repo scans or git-diff PR review, and works with multiple model providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, OpenRouter, Ollama); agents are defined as markdown files with YAML frontmatter and are pulled from a community agents catalog.

github.comrepoPublished and added 23 Aug 2026🛡️ Security

Cybermes is an open-source bug bounty and pentest automation framework that pairs a native Go MCP server (cybermes-mcp) with an autonomous Hermes CLI agent, orchestrating recon tools (subfinder, httpx, katana, ffuf, Nuclei, sqlmap), 200+ offensive playbooks covering IDOR/BOLA, JWT, SSRF, XSS, SQLi and cloud misconfig, and a validation-gate workflow that writes non-destructive PoC scripts before compiling findings into Markdown/HTML/PDF reports. It exposes its tools over JSON-RPC 2.0 to AI coding assistants (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Gemini/Antigravity) so an external LLM can drive scoped, evidence-backed security assessments.

github.comrepoPublished and added 23 Aug 2026🛡️ Security

hunt.md is an open, portable Markdown format for writing threat-hunting playbooks as git-diffable documents combining YAML frontmatter with a typed graph of steps — queries, data collection, agent reasoning, human review, and response. The reference tool huntmd validates hunts (checking reachability, variable use, agent bounds, gated destructive actions) and converts between hunt.md, Huntbase definitions, OASIS CACAO v2 playbooks, and MISP events, with CACAO round-trip tested against 49 real playbooks from six projects.

github.comrepoAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 17 Aug 2026🛡️ Security

Ionix's engineering team describes building an in-house AI PR reviewer using OpenAI's Codex CLI against a self-hosted Azure AI Foundry model deployment, wired into CircleCI and Bitbucket, after dropping Atlassian Rovo for cost and low signal-to-noise. The piece details prompt design to suppress low-value comments, agentic repo-wide review (vs. diff-only), sharding for large PRs, JSON output validation against git ls-files, storing review state inside PR comments via base64-in-markdown, and a dedicated prompt-injection defense section (scrubbed environment, secret redaction, sandboxed execution, egress restriction). It also covers two production failures: a silently-broken bubblewrap sandbox that kept "reviewing" without running any tools, and an unpinned Codex CLI npm dependency that broke Azure API calls across every repo.

ionix.iowriteupAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 13 Aug 2026🛡️ Security

GenOffice is an open-source (Apache-2.0) desktop office suite for macOS/Windows/Linux that opens native .docx/.xlsx/.pptx/PDF/Markdown/HTML files and puts an AI agent inside the editor, applying edits as byte-preserving diffs, tracked changes and live spreadsheet formulas rather than pasted text. It exposes the same engines to coding agents via a `genoffice` CLI, a bundled skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf, and an MCP server with 29 tools (plus an HTTP variant for headless/remote use), and includes a local SQLite full-text file search optionally reranked by TypeSafe's Jev judgment model. Users can bring their own key (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others) or sign in with Genspark to route model calls through a proxy.

github.comrepoAdded 30 Sep 2026, published 31 Jul 2026🧠 AI

Author describes Aii-Aii Hunter, a bug bounty framework built on Claude Code with 124 markdown skills (35.5k lines distilled from public HackerOne reports), three hooks (UserPromptSubmit regex auto-routing, PreToolUse scope.json guard, PostToolUse telemetry) and a Podman Kali container exposing 110 tools plus 18 Burp tools over MCP. It also covers an engagement flow with a 7-Question validation gate, evidence hygiene, an autopilot mode, and SAST/DAST correlation. Useful as a blueprint for scoped, AI-orchestrated offensive workflows; first of six parts with a companion repo.

medium.comarticleAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 30 Jul 2026🛡️ Security

PentesterFlow is an open-source terminal AI agent for authorized offensive-security engagements, connecting to local or hosted LLMs (Ollama, LM Studio, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, OpenRouter, etc.) to plan and execute recon, enumeration, vulnerability validation, and evidence-backed reporting against a scoped target. It gates sensitive actions behind analyst approval, bridges with Burp Suite for traffic capture/finding import via a local listener and companion MCP server, and maintains persistent project/personal memory (redacting secrets) to carry lessons and coverage state across sessions. The demo walks through discovering and confirming an IDOR on an orders API and writing findings to a local markdown report.

github.comrepoPublished and added 29 Jul 2026🛡️ Security