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Strix Overview

Strix are autonomous AI penetration testing agents that act just like real hackers - they run your code dynamically, find vulnerabilities, and validate them through actual proofs-of-concept. Built for developers and security teams who need fast, accurate security testing without the overhead of manual pentesting or the false positives of static analysis tools.

Key Capabilities:

• Full pentesting toolkit - reconnaissance, exploitation, and validation out of the box
• Multi-agent orchestration - teams of AI pentesters that collaborate and scale
• Real exploit validation - working PoCs, not false positives like legacy vulnerability scanners
• Developer‑first CLI - actionable findings with remediation guidance
• Auto‑fix & reporting - generate patches and compliance-ready pentest reports

Use Cases

• Application Security Testing - Detect and validate critical vulnerabilities in your applications
• Rapid Penetration Testing - Get penetration tests done in hours, not weeks, with compliance reports
• Bug Bounty Automation - Automate bug bounty research and generate PoCs for faster reporting
• CI/CD Integration - Run tests in CI/CD to block vulnerabilities before reaching production

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites:

• Docker (running)
• An LLM API key from any supported provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.)

Installation & First Scan

# Install Strix
curl -sSL https://strix.ai/install | bash

# Configure your AI provider
export STRIX_LLM="openai/gpt-5.4"
export LLM_API_KEY="your-api-key"

# Run your first security assessment
strix --target ./app-directory

[!NOTE] First run automatically pulls the sandbox Docker image. Results are saved to strix_runs/<run-name>

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☁️ Strix Platform

Try the Strix full-stack penetration testing platform at app.strix.ai - sign up for free, connect your repos and domains, and launch a pentest in minutes.

• Validated findings with PoCs - every vulnerability includes a working proof-of-concept exploit and reproduction steps
• One-click autofix - AI-generated security patches as ready-to-merge pull requests
• Continuous pentesting - always-on vulnerability scanning that keeps pace with your deployments
• DevSecOps integrations - GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, Jira, Linear, and CI/CD pipelines
• Continuous learning - AI that builds on past findings, adapts to your codebase, and reduces false positives over time

Start your first pentest →

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🤖 Use Strix from Your Coding Agent

Strix is agent-ready. Give Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any SKILL.md-compatible agent the ability to run pentests, fix findings, and set up CI scanning:

npx skills add usestrix/strix

This installs nine skills: penetration-testing-with-strix (run headless scans and read results), managed-pentesting-with-strix (drive the managed app.strix.ai platform via REST — no local Docker or LLM key), fix-security-vulnerabilities-with-strix (remediate + re-scan to verify), ci-security-scanning-with-strix (PR scanning in CI), plus target-specific workflows: application-security-testing, web-app-penetration-testing, api-security-testing, owasp-top-10-testing, and find-security-vulnerabilities-in-code. Agents can run Strix two ways with the same engine — the open-source CLI locally, or the managed cloud when there's no local infra — and read AGENTS.md for a quick reference, docs.strix.ai/llms.txt for the CLI docs, and docs.app.strix.ai for the API.

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✨ Features

Agentic Pentesting Tools

Strix agents come equipped with a comprehensive offensive security toolkit - the same tools used by professional penetration testers and ethical hackers:

• HTTP Interception Proxy - Full request/response manipulation and analysis with Caido
• Browser Exploitation - Automated browser for testing XSS, CSRF, clickjacking, and auth bypass flows
• Shell & Command Execution - Interactive terminal for exploit development and post-exploitation
• Custom Exploit Runtime - Python sandbox for writing and validating proof-of-concept exploits
• Reconnaissance & OSINT - Automated attack surface mapping, subdomain enumeration, and fingerprinting
• Static & Dynamic Code Analysis - SAST + DAST capabilities for comprehensive application security testing
• Vulnerability Knowledge Base - Structured findings with CVSS scoring and OWASP classification

Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanner

Strix identifies, validates, and exploits a wide range of security vulnerabilities across the OWASP Top 10 and beyond:

• Broken Access Control - IDOR, privilege escalation, auth bypass
• Injection Attacks - SQL injection, NoSQL injection, OS command injection, SSTI
• Server-Side Vulnerabilities - SSRF, XXE, insecure deserialization, RCE
• Client-Side Attacks - XSS (stored/reflected/DOM), prototype pollution, CSRF
• Business Logic Flaws - Race conditions, payment manipulation, workflow bypass
• Authentication & Session - JWT attacks, session fixation, credential stuffing vectors
• Infrastructure & Cloud - Misconfigurations, exposed services, cloud security issues
• API Security - Broken authe