Red Teamer Seeks Advice on Local LLM Harness for Authorized Security Exercises

CivilBug4007 · reddit · 2026-09-04

A cybersecurity practitioner working on BFSI projects is asking Reddit for help building an AI-powered red teaming harness that orchestrates recon, enumeration, vulnerability analysis, tool execution, evidence collection, and reporting with human oversight at key stages. Because project data can't leave the premises, everything must run locally. He asks which local LLMs are best for tool calling, coding, and reasoning (mentioning Orion 1.5 and Qwen-class models), what Mac hardware to target (RAM for 30B+ models, Mac Studio vs MacBook Pro), and which frameworks people use for autonomous security workflows. Priority: privacy, reliable tool use, and reasoning over benchmark scores.

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