ipa-lab/hackingBuddyGPT

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1274 stars · 222 forks observed · 2026-10-17

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

HackingBuddyGPT is a Python framework that helps ethical hackers and security researchers use LLMs and LLM-based autonomous agents for penetration testing, aiming for minimal-code experimentation. It includes reusable Linux privilege-escalation benchmarks and supports SSH and local shell execution against targets.

Use cases

• automate penetration testing with llm agents
• find linux privilege escalation vulnerabilities with ai
• use llms to discover attack vectors
• build an ai hacking agent for security testing
• benchmark llms on security tasks
• earn bug bounties using ai-assisted hacking

When to choose

• you are a security researcher or pentester experimenting with LLM-driven agents
• you want a lightweight, hackable framework for AI-assisted security testing
• you need priv-esc benchmarks to evaluate LLMs on security tasks

When to avoid

• you need a production-grade, fully automated pentesting product
• you cannot run commands in an isolated environment, since it executes commands on live targets
• you are not comfortable with experimental research software

Facets

framework · maturity active

agent-framework llm-inference penetration-testing security security penetration-testing artificial-intelligence large-language-models python cli ethical-hacking pentesting llm-agents privilege-escalation security-research bug-bounty ai-agents linux

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