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

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 a page it just read.…

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  1. 2026-11-13 14:06 · DEV Community — AI
    Letting an AI agent run security scanners without letting it choose the targets

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