Trail of Bits: Three Lessons From Running Hundreds of AI Agents on Critical OSS
banteg · x · 2026-11-07
At Summit Defi 2026 in Mumbai, Trail of Bits' nisedo presented "Patch the Planet," an effort running hundreds of AI agents across dozens of widely used open-source projects for vulnerability hunting. The written version distills three lessons applicable to any DeFi audit.
A rare practitioner writeup of AI agents deployed at scale for security research on critical OSS infrastructure.
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