PentestGPT

Autonomous penetration testing agent that drives Claude Code or Codex through staged recon, exploit and report pipelines.

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PentestGPT is an open-source penetration testing agent published at USENIX Security 2024. Version 1.0 runs staged pipelines, from recon through exploit to walkthrough for CTF challenges, or from asset discovery through vulnerability identification to report for pentests, and drives Claude Code or Codex to run the tools. A legacy interactive mode supports several model providers, including local Ollama, and sessions can be saved and resumed.

Use cases: security, security-scanning

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Fact sheet

Jobs: securityREADME
Autonomy: Autonomous: runs tasks end to end and reports backREADME
Where you use it: TerminalREADME
Hosting: You run itREADME
Models: anthropic, openai, google, deepseek, xai, qwen, moonshot, ollamaREADME
Open source: YesREADME

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Frameworks named in its dependency files.

0.730score
Claude Agent SDK (Python)
Anthropic
Python SDK that runs the Claude Code agent loop inside your own program, with custom tools and hooks written as Python functions.
HarnessAFreshness: A★ 8.3K↓ 7.9M/wk

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Stars: 16,099
Forks: 2,825
Open issues: 72
Last commit: Jul 14, 2026 (3 months ago)
Last release: Dec 24, 2025 (10 months ago)

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Details

License: MIT
Repository: github.com/GreyDGL/PentestGPT
First seen: Oct 24, 2026
Last checked: Oct 24, 2026
Source: README github-graphql

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PentestGPT. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/agents/pentestgpt (last updated 2026-10-24)