Validators decide from recorded artifacts, and the weakest link was who recorded them: "the payload returned a 500" is still an agent's account of what happened. Replay produces the part that matters most in practice — reproducibility — by sending the request again through the harness's own client, with the scope guard in front of it. Three properties it is built around: - every request passes ScopePolicy::check_request before a socket is opened, so replay cannot be the thing that wanders off-scope while verifying a finding; - it never mutates: a finding proven with DELETE is not re-proven by deleting the record again, so non-idempotent verbs are refused and repeats of them are refused outright; - bodies are truncated at 96KB and SAY they were truncated — a silently clipped body makes a length differential meaningless. enrich() fills in repeats and re-measures a recorded baseline (comparing a fresh attack against an hour-old baseline attributes ordinary drift to the payload). It deliberately does NOT synthesize a baseline from an attack request: removing "the payload" from an arbitrary URL is guesswork, and a guessed baseline would silently decide the verdict. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
🧠 NeuroSploit v4.0.0
Autonomous, multi-model penetration-testing harness — Rust, CLI-only.
by Joas A Santos & Red Team Leaders
⭐ If this is useful, star the repo — it helps a lot.
📖 New here? Read the full Tutorial & User Guide → — every mode, flag, config and example explained. Version-by-version changes live in RELEASE.md.
NeuroSploit turns a URL, a source repository, a running app, or a host/IP into
an autonomous security engagement. A Rust harness (tokio) drives a pool of
LLMs — via API key or local subscription (Claude Code / Codex / Gemini /
Grok) — recons the target, intelligently selects only the agents that match the
discovered surface, runs them in parallel, chains findings into deeper
impact, and validates every claim by cross-model voting + tool-receipt
grounding before reporting. It ships 435 markdown agents and a Mission
Control TUI.
Engagement modes
| Mode | Command | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Black-box | neurosploit run <url> |
recon → select → exploit → vote → report |
| White-box | neurosploit whitebox <repo> |
source/SAST review (file:line evidence) |
| Grey-box | neurosploit greybox <repo> --url <app> |
code review + live exploitation together |
| Host/Infra | neurosploit host <ip> --creds creds.yaml |
Linux / Windows / AD and cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) testing |
| AI / LLM red-team | neurosploit aitest <ai-url> |
jailbreaks & prompt injection + OWASP LLM Top 10 / MCP against a live AI agent |
| AI Skills / n8n | neurosploit skills <file|folder> |
white-box audit of Skill/plugin & n8n workflow definitions |
| Mission Control | neurosploit tui <url> |
live TUI panels + composer during the run |
| Interactive | neurosploit |
persistent REPL session (resumes per project) |
Highlights
- 🧠 POMDP belief + value-of-information — the target is partially observable,
so findings aren't booleans: a property-graph belief carries probabilities,
and "scan more vs exploit now" falls out of belief entropy. The
may_assertgate is a mathematical anti-hallucination rule (don't claim exploitability while the belief is diffuse). - 🧾 Grounding — hard rule: no claim without a receipt (evidence, not
paraphrase). Empirical (raw tool output) for black-box/host/AI, symbolic
(
file:lineinto the reviewed source — a code citation is the receipt) for white-box SAST & skills audits, and either for grey-box; ungrounded claims are demoted. - 🔬 Deterministic HTTP probe — before the model recon, the harness runs a real request/response analysis (status/redirects, security headers, cookie flags, CORS reflection, tech fingerprint, linked JS, 404 baseline, high-signal paths) and feeds those observed facts into recon, so agent selection and exploitation decisions are grounded in evidence — not the model's guess.
- 🔗 Attack chaining — any primitive pivots. 13 multi-stage chain agents (SQLi→RCE→LPE, SSRF→cloud creds, upload→LFI→RCE→LPE, CVE→RCE→pivot, …) plus a chaining doctrine that turns any confirmed foothold into the next step: reduce it to a primitive (exec / read / write / request-forgery / identity / secret) and pivot — file-upload→RCE, SSRF→metadata creds, IDOR→takeover — reusing looted creds and reasoning about business logic (payment/tenancy/workflow abuse). Each stage proven; strictly non-destructive (no data loss, no DB overwrite, no DoS).
- ☁️ Cloud testing — AWS / GCP / Azure agents that drive the provider CLIs
(
aws/gcloud/az). Connect viacreds.yaml: AWS keys, a Google service-account JSON, or an Azure service principal — see Cloud credentials. - 🤖 LLM red-teaming — 30 AI agents that jailbreak & prompt-inject a live AI system across scenarios: AdvPrefix, PAIR, TAP, Crescendo, many-shot, persona/DAN, encoding/obfuscation, refusal-suppression; plus indirect injection (RAG/web/email/tool output), goal hijacking, tool/function-call abuse, and system-prompt exfiltration. Each runs an attacker→LLM-judge loop (baseline refusal → technique → verdict) and proves the bypass with a benign, redacted receipt. Maps to OWASP LLM Top 10 (2025), MCP threats & OWASP AI Exchange; Skill/plugin & n8n files audited white-box.
- 🧰 Misconfig & CVE hunting → exploitation, safely — a full CVE pipeline:
version fingerprint (pin exact versions) → research analyst (map to
NVD/GHSA CVEs, judge reachability) → PoC finder (locate/vet/adapt a public
PoC) → exploit scripter (write a custom exploit when none exists). Every PoC
is written to the run's
pocs/folder and referenced in the report so findings are reproducible. Plus absurd-misconfig agents (exposed.git/.env, debug/actuator, default creds, dashboards, CORS) and rate-limit testing — all under a strict data-safety/PII guardrail (no destructive/state-changing actions; PII proven with a masked sample, never dumped). - 🎯 Re-test one vulnerability —
--only <agent>(repeatable / comma-separated) runs exactly the agent(s) you name and skips recon-based selection — re-test a single finding fast. Works onrun/whitebox/greybox;neurosploit agentslists the names. - 🔬 White-box stays white-box — code agents run under a static-review
doctrine (symbolic
file:linereceipts, source-to-sink taint tracing, manifest version→CVE) that forbids hallucinated live/black-box network actions, and can emit a repro PoC topocs/. - 🗣️ Natural-language REPL — in the interactive session, just describe what you want, in any language: "testa https://loja.com com opus, foco em SQLi, fora de escopo /admin, roda". A hybrid parser sets target/models/focus/ objective/out-of-scope and toggles (Burp, browser, votes, recon depth) and can launch — zero-token deterministic parse for the common shapes, model fallback for anything ambiguous. No flags to memorize.
- 🔀 CI/CD PR gate —
neurosploit pr <repo> <n> --fail-on criticalreviews a pull request, and on a confirmed finding at/above the threshold it fails the check, sets aneurosploit/securitycommit status, and posts a REQUEST_CHANGES review — so branch protection blocks the merge. Ready-made GitHub Actions workflows included (PR gate + a@neurosploitmention bot that runs a scan when a writer comments). See Integrations. - 🎯 Engagement objective & out-of-scope — give the goal/context and hard
exclusions in words (
/objective,/scope-out, or--objective/--out-of-scope); both steer every agent prompt. - 📸 Proof screenshots in reports — agents capture visual proof per finding
(
evidence/<finding-id>-N.png), embedded beside its vulnerability in the Typst/HTML/Markdown reports. - 🖥️ Local, uncensored & CPU-only models —
ollama:andllamacpp:run the whole engagement on your box with no API key and no data leaving the host.llamacpp:speaks to allama-serverOpenAI-compatible endpoint (LLAMACPP_BASE_URL, default localhost:8080); themodelis whatever gguf you loaded. Ideal for offline/air-gapped work and unfiltered offensive prompting. - 🕵️ Burp/ZAP proxy —
/proxy <url>(or/burp) routes agent traffic through your local intercepting proxy so you can inspect & replay in Burp. - 🗺️ Attack graph & kill chain — findings mapped to OWASP / CWE / MITRE ATT&CK / stage; rendered as a Mermaid graph in the report.
- ✅ Cross-model validation — a different model adjudicates each finding; RL-weighted, recon-aware agent selection.
- 🛰️ Mission Control TUI — live header/feed/findings/targets panels + a
composer you can type in while the run streams (
summary,pause, …). - 💾 Per-project memory —
<cwd>/.neurosploit/keeps session, run history and command history; the REPL resumes on reopen. No database required. - 🪙 Token/cost telemetry, per-agent attribution, graceful Ctrl-C → report or discard, Typst/HTML/JSON/MD reports.
This is the slim, Rust-only distribution (
neurosploit-rs/+agents_md/). The earlier Python engine and web GUIs live on the olderv3.4.0branch.
📦 Install (one line)
Linux / macOS (x64 & arm64):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JoasASantos/NeuroSploit/main/setup.sh | bash
Windows (PowerShell, x64 & arm64):
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JoasASantos/NeuroSploit/main/install.ps1 | iex
Supported platforms
| OS | x64 | arm64 |
|---|---|---|
| Linux (Kali recommended) | ✅ | ✅ |
| macOS | ✅ | ✅ (Apple Silicon) |
| Windows | ✅ | ✅ |
Pure Rust + stdlib, so it builds natively everywhere a stable Rust toolchain runs.
The installer auto-detects OS/arch and installs Rust if missing. On native Windows
use install.ps1; under WSL2 / Git Bash the setup.sh one-liner also works.
The installer auto-installs Rust if needed, clones the repo to ~/.neurosploit,
builds the release binary, and links neurosploit into ~/.local/bin. Re-run it
any time to update. Tweak with env vars: NEUROSPLOIT_REF (branch/tag),
NEUROSPLOIT_DIR, PREFIX.
Prefer to build by hand?
git clone https://github.com/JoasASantos/NeuroSploit && cd NeuroSploit/neurosploit-rs
cargo build --release # → target/release/neurosploit
⚡ Quick start (60 seconds)
# easiest path — just run it; the interactive session asks everything:
neurosploit
# or one-liner (subscription login, no API key needed):
neurosploit run http://testphp.vulnweb.com/ --subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 -v
# white-box — review a source repository (SAST agents, file:line evidence):
git clone https://github.com/digininja/DVWA /tmp/DVWA
neurosploit whitebox /tmp/DVWA --subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 -v
# grey-box — review the code AND exploit the running app together:
neurosploit greybox /tmp/DVWA --url http://localhost:8080/ --creds creds.yaml \
--subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 --mcp -v
# host / infra — Linux / Windows / Active Directory (SSH/Win creds in creds.yaml):
neurosploit host 10.0.0.10 --creds creds.yaml --subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 -v
# 🛰 Mission Control TUI — live panels (header/feed/findings/targets) + a composer
# you can type in WHILE the run streams (summary · pause · errors · notes):
neurosploit tui http://testphp.vulnweb.com/ --subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 --mcp
Full step-by-step for every mode (black/white/grey/host) is in TUTORIAL.md.
No login? Use an API key instead — see Authentication.
🖥️ Web console (NEW in v4.0.0)
A browser UI for the same harness — every action spawns the real compiled CLI and parses its output; nothing about the harness logic is reimplemented in the browser.
cd neurosploit-rs && cargo build --release # once
node web/server.js # → http://localhost:4173
Zero npm dependencies (Node built-ins only).
- 5-step engagement wizard — Asset (mode + target/repo) → Scope & Auth (objective, focus, out-of-scope) → Leads (the 435-agent board below) → Model & Run (provider/model picker, API-key vs. subscription toggle, votes/chain-depth/recon) → Review. Every engagement is named up front, so runs are identifiable in history instead of by raw target string.
- Lead board — all 435 agents auto-categorized (Business Logic, Broken Access Control, Injection, LLM Application, Auth & Session, SSRF & Network, Cloud & Infra, …). Toggle a single lead, a whole category (indeterminate when partially selected), or use Select all / Clear all — respects the active search filter. Leave everything off to let the harness's own recon-driven selection choose.
- Custom lead → real agent — "+ Custom lead" doesn't just add a text hint: it calls the
claudeCLI (Opus, your Anthropic subscription) to generate an actual specialist-agent markdown file intoagents_md/vulns/, in the same format every built-in agent uses, pinnable immediately. Falls back to a plain focus-text hint if Claude isn't available. - Live run view — phase/progress streamed over SSE, a findings table, and Generative
Attack Path Chaining: a node/edge graph (root = target, one node per confirmed finding,
positioned by kill-chain stage, edges from
chains_fromwhen the harness set one) instead of a flat list — click any node or row for the full finding detail, including any PoC script the exploiting agent wrote topocs/. - Real REPL underneath
run/whitebox/greybox— the wizard scripts an actual interactiveneurosploitsession (/target,/model,/only,/run, …) instead of a one-shot CLI invocation, so the session keeps reading stdin while the engagement streams. The Activity log tab grows a prompt box (❭) to send/status,/stop,/continue, or a plain-language instruction mid-run — same REPL described in §6.host/aitest/skillsstay one-shot (their onboarding menu can't be scripted over piped stdin). - Dashboard — coverage (engagements, targets, agents run), findings by severity, most frequent weaknesses, and an annualized loss exposure computed with FAIR (Loss Event Frequency × Loss Magnitude): frequency from each finding's exploitability and validation confidence, magnitude from assumptions that are shown on screen and editable. Reported as a min / most-likely / max range, never a single number.
- Run history in folders — runs group into one folder per target with a filter box, instead of one flat list that grows forever.
- Terminal dock —
Ctrl+\`` (or❭_in the sidebar) opens a real terminal, xterm.js over an unstripped stdout stream, so the harness renders with its own colour and panels. Its header switches the terminal between a standalone REPL session and the engagement currently running, with local line editing: history,Tabcompletion over the slash commands,Ctrl+C/L/U`. - Auth & Keys (one menu) — target auth header + named roles for IDOR/BOLA/BFLA testing
(materializes an ephemeral
creds.yamlfor the run), and per-provider API keys held in the server process's memory only — never written to disk. - Survives a page refresh: an in-progress run reattaches to the same live stream instead of resetting to the wizard.
Full API reference: web/API.md · quick start: web/README.md.
Knowledge: memory + attack knowledge graph
Every model call starts with an empty context window, so without somewhere to put what a run
learned, the harness re-derives the same stack, the same endpoints and the same dead ends every
time. Two stores fix that, both under .neurosploit/ in the project directory:
- Layered memory (
/memory,/forget) — four tiers by scope, not importance: working (one run), engagement (one target), technique (one agent/CWE), reusable (generalized). Promotion is evidence-gated: a claim repeated within a run becomes engagement knowledge, one confirmed across runs becomes technique knowledge, and one that held on two different targets is generalized into a reusable lesson with the host-specific tokens stripped. Recall is scored (term overlap × past success × recency) and injected into recon/exploit prompts as leads to verify — never as assertions. - Attack knowledge graph (
/graph,graph.json) — typed entities (asset, endpoint, weakness, technique, finding, account, credential, impact) joined by typed, weighted, provenance-carrying edges, accumulated across runs. It answers what a finding list can't: ranked attack paths, which endpoint accumulated the most weaknesses, and the frontier — entities observed but never proven, i.e. where chaining should look next. Chain edges the harness derived itself are markedinferredand drawn dashed in the web console. Secrets never enter the graph; they stay in the vault.
Scope: enforced, not requested
out_of_scope used to be a sentence in the prompt and nothing checked it — a
request to the model, not a control. Scope is now a guard in code
(crates/harness/src/scope.rs):
- Hard scope — an allowlist of hosts,
*.wildcards, IPv4 CIDRs and URL prefixes, plus exclusions that always win. It defaults to the engagement's target and nothing else, so discovery can never widen the engagement: finding a subdomain in a JS bundle is not authorization to test it. - Soft scope — guardrails inside authorized territory: observe-only zones, destructive HTTP verbs (off by default), account-creation cap, request-rate guard, and payload classes that are never acceptable (data destruction, DoS) — refused even against an in-scope host.
- Findings proven against a host outside the boundary are withheld from the
report and written to
out-of-scope-findings.jsonas an incident to disclose.
/inscope *.example.com 10.0.0.0/24 # authorize more
/scope-out payments.example.com # host-shaped entries become ENFORCED denials
/observe legacy.example.com # discovery allowed, interaction blocked
/guardrail destructive on · accounts 5 · rate 60
/policy # what is actually enforced
Evidence & Validation Engine
Voting is models checking models, and a confident hallucination passes a vote by
being confident. crates/harness/src/validation.rs adds a deterministic layer
that never consults a model:
HYPOTHESIS → CANDIDATE → [ VALIDATION ENGINE ] → CONFIRMED | NEEDS_REVIEW | REJECTED
Per-CWE rules, because "is this real?" has a different answer per class:
19 validators, each owning a disjoint set of CWEs (a test enforces that no two claim the same one, so routing never depends on registration order):
| class | what confirms it | what it rejects |
|---|---|---|
| SQLi (89/943/564) | baseline↔attack difference reproducing ≥2× | an app that always prints SQL errors |
| XSS (79/80/83/87) | a browser executed a harness-chosen marker | reflection in HTML |
| IDOR/BOLA (639/862/863/284/285) | identity B reads A's resource and the body matches | a 200 that is really a login page; a 403 |
| SSRF (918) | controlled callback or canary retrieval | timing alone |
| LFI (22/23/35/98/73) | controlled marker or a file signature the baseline lacked | a signature the baseline already had |
| RCE (77/78/94/95/502/917) | unique nonce in output, or a callback | a nonce that is only reflected input |
| SSTI (1336) | an expression evaluated server-side whose result was never sent | the payload echoing its own "result" |
| XXE (611/776/827) | entity content returned, or an OOB callback | a parser error mentioning entities |
| Open redirect (601) | 3xx with a Location pointing off-site |
a rendered link; a same-origin redirect |
| CORS (942/346/1385) | reflected Origin plus credentials |
ACAO: * without credentials (browsers already refuse it) |
| Cookie flags (614/1004/1275) | decided entirely by Set-Cookie + scheme |
a cookie that carries all three flags |
| Clickjacking (1021) | neither X-Frame-Options nor CSP frame-ancestors |
either control present |
| Auth bypass (306/287/288) | protected content served with no credentials sent | a "bypass" that still carried a cookie; a login redirect |
| JWT (347/345/290) | forged token accepted and privileged content returned | a 401 on the forged token |
| Rate limiting (307/799/770) | ≥20 attempts, none throttled | any 429 / Retry-After in the burst |
| Session fixation (384) | the session id survives login unchanged | a regenerated id |
| Mass assignment (915/913) | a read-back showing the privileged field persisted | a 200 on the write alone (APIs accept and ignore extras) |
| CSRF (352) | cross-origin state change read back | a GET; a 403; a SameSite session cookie |
| Exposure (200/538/540/548/312/532) | a real secret/listing signature the baseline lacked | a soft-404 that mirrors the baseline page |
Two rules keep it honest: absent evidence is never a pass (it becomes
needs-review), and a class with no rule is never auto-confirmed.
NEUROSPLOIT_VALIDATION=advisory|enforcing|off — advisory (default) rejects
contradictions but won't demote a voted finding merely for missing artifacts;
enforcing makes the verdict the status.
Keeping a run going
- Command rectification — a mistyped command is corrected (
/staus→/status), completed (/onb→/onboard), or reported as ambiguous, never guessed at. Arguments too: a bare host gets its scheme, an out-of-range count is clamped with a note, a near-miss model id is matched against the live catalog. - Automatic backend fallback — when every configured model is quota-exhausted or its token is dead, the pool switches to whatever else this machine can reach (an installed CLI subscription, or a provider whose API key is in the environment) and keeps going. It only parks the run when nothing at all is available.
- Resume where it stopped — findings are checkpointed live, so an interrupted run is
recovered on the next start and
/continuecarries them forward. Non-interactive sessions (the web console drives the REPL over a pipe) resume automatically, since no one is there to type it; setNEUROSPLOIT_AUTO_RESUME=1to get the same at a terminal.
🔌 Integrations (GitHub · GitLab · Jira)
Wire NeuroSploit into your SDLC. Toggle from the REPL (/integrations) or the CLI
(neurosploit integrations enable github|gitlab|jira). Tokens are never stored
— only the name of the env var is saved; the value is read from your environment.
export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_... # PAT with `repo` scope (private repos)
neurosploit integrations enable github
# Review a Pull Request's code (clones the PR head, white-box) and comment back:
neurosploit pr digininja/DVWA 42 --subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 --comment
# Same, but BLOCK the merge on a confirmed critical: fails the check, sets a
# `neurosploit/security` commit status, and posts a REQUEST_CHANGES review.
neurosploit pr digininja/DVWA 42 --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 --comment --fail-on critical
# Watch a branch and re-review on every new commit:
neurosploit watch myorg/private-app --branch main --subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8
# Private GitLab repo (token-injected clone) — works in whitebox/greybox:
export GITLAB_TOKEN=glpat-... ; neurosploit integrations enable gitlab
neurosploit whitebox https://gitlab.com/myorg/private-svc --subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8
# Open a Jira card per finding (any engagement):
export JIRA_EMAIL=you@org.com JIRA_API_TOKEN=... # set base/project once: /integrations setup jira
neurosploit whitebox https://github.com/myorg/app --jira --subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8
| Integration | What you get | Env vars |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub | private clone · pr review + comment · PR gate (--fail-on: fail check + commit status + REQUEST_CHANGES) · watch branch |
GITHUB_TOKEN |
| GitLab | private clone for whitebox/greybox | GITLAB_TOKEN |
| Jira | one card per finding (--jira) |
JIRA_EMAIL, JIRA_API_TOKEN |
Automations (GitHub Actions)
Two ready-made workflows ship in examples/github-actions/ — copy
them into your repo:
neurosploit-pr-gate.yml— reviews every PR and blocks the merge on a confirmed critical. Make it enforcing: Settings → Branches → require theneurosploit-pr-gatestatus check (and/or require review to honor the REQUEST_CHANGES). SetANTHROPIC_API_KEY(or swap the model) in Actions secrets; the built-inGITHUB_TOKENcovers statuses/reviews.neurosploit-mention.yml— comment@neurosploiton a PR or issue to trigger a scan (only repo writers can). Text after the mention is the instruction (any language):@neurosploit focus SQLi and IDOR, or@neurosploit scan https://staging.appfor a black-box run.
📖 Step-by-step setup for each tool: TUTORIAL-INTEGRATION.md.
☁️ Cloud credentials (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Add a cloud block to creds.yaml and the harness exports the right env vars so
the AWS/GCP/Azure agents can drive aws / gcloud / az. Secrets stay in your
file/secret-manager; agents do read-only enumeration first, never destructive.
# --- AWS: static keys (or a named profile) ---
aws:
access_key_id: AKIA...
secret_access_key: ...
# session_token: ... # if using temporary creds
region: us-east-1
# profile: my-sso-profile # alternative to keys
# --- GCP: service-account JSON (path recommended; inline single-line also works) ---
gcp:
service_account_json: /path/to/sa.json
project: my-project-id
# --- Azure: service principal (recommended for automation) ---
azure:
tenant_id: ...
client_id: ...
client_secret: ...
subscription_id: ...
neurosploit host my-cloud-account --creds creds.yaml \
--subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 -v
Agents cover IAM privilege-escalation, storage exposure (S3/GCS/Blob), compute &
network exposure, secrets (Secrets Manager / Secret Manager / Key Vault),
service-account/SP abuse, and identity enumeration (Entra ID). Best-practice
auth: AWS access keys or profile; GCP a service-account JSON
(GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS); Azure a service principal
(az login --service-principal).
👥 Multiple identities — access-control testing (IDOR / BOLA / BFLA)
Give NeuroSploit two or more named roles in creds.yaml and it authenticates
as each and tests cross-role access (a low-priv role reaching another user's
object or an admin function is a finding):
admin:
jwt: eyJ... # per role: jwt | header (raw) | cookie | apikey | login+username+password
user:
apikey: abc123 # → X-Api-Key: abc123
victim:
cookie: "session=deadbeef"
neurosploit run https://app.example --creds creds.yaml \
--subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 -v
Each finding is proven with the authorized vs unauthorized request pair, under the data-safety guardrail (read-only, PII masked).
🏷️ Identification & attribution (anti-plagiarism)
Every request is tagged with an identifying User-Agent (default
NeuroSploit/<ver> …, change with /ua or NEUROSPLOIT_UA) plus an
X-NeuroSploit-Scan header, and every finding is stamped "Identified and
validated by NeuroSploit" — so provenance travels in the traffic, the finding
text, findings.json and the report footer.
Build
cd neurosploit-rs
cargo build --release # → target/release/neurosploit
Requires a Rust toolchain (rustup). Recommended: run on Kali Linux (or the
Kali Docker image) so the offensive tools the agents use are already present:
docker run -it --rm kalilinux/kali-rolling
apt update && apt install -y curl nmap ffuf nodejs npm
# rustscan (faster port scan): cargo install rustscan (or grab a release from GitHub)
The agents degrade gracefully: if rustscan isn't installed they use nmap; if
neither, they probe with curl. If a Playwright MCP browser is available they use
it for JS-heavy pages, otherwise they fall back to curl.
Usage
Run with no arguments for an interactive wizard:
./target/release/neurosploit
Or drive it directly:
# Black-box — subscription (no API key), Opus, browser via Playwright if present, verbose
./target/release/neurosploit run http://testphp.vulnweb.com/ \
--subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 --mcp -v
# Black-box — API keys, multi-model voting panel (1st finds, others adjudicate)
./target/release/neurosploit run http://testphp.vulnweb.com/ \
--model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 --model openai:gpt-5.1 --vote-n 3
# White-box — clone a vulnerable app and review its source
git clone https://github.com/digininja/DVWA /tmp/DVWA
./target/release/neurosploit whitebox /tmp/DVWA \
--subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 -v
# Offline pipeline self-test (no keys/login needed)
./target/release/neurosploit run http://testphp.vulnweb.com/ --offline
# Utilities
./target/release/neurosploit agents # library counts
./target/release/neurosploit models # providers & models
./target/release/neurosploit --help # full help with examples
Options (run / whitebox)
| Flag | Meaning |
|---|---|
--model provider:model |
Repeatable. First = primary; the rest fail over and form the voting jury. |
--subscription |
Use the local CLI login (Claude/Codex/Gemini/Grok) instead of an API key. |
--mcp |
Enable Playwright MCP (auto-provisioned via npx; backends without MCP use built-in tools). |
--vote-n N |
How many models must agree a finding is real (default 3 / 2 for whitebox). |
--max-agents N |
Cap agents run (0 = all matching the recon). |
--offline |
Exercise the full pipeline without calling any model. |
-v, --verbose |
Log each agent as it launches, recon, and votes. |
Authentication — run via API key or subscription
You can run NeuroSploit two ways. They're independent: pick per run.
1) Via API (provider API key)
Export the key(s) for the providers in your model panel, then run without
--subscription. Any OpenAI-compatible provider works.
# pick one or more, depending on the models you select
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-... # anthropic:claude-*
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... # openai:gpt-*
export GEMINI_API_KEY=AIza... # gemini:gemini-*
export XAI_API_KEY=xai-... # xai:grok-*
export NVIDIA_NIM_API_KEY=nvapi-... # nvidia_nim:*
export DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=... # deepseek:*
export MISTRAL_API_KEY=... # mistral:*
export DASHSCOPE_API_KEY=... # qwen:* (Alibaba DashScope)
export GROQ_API_KEY=... # groq:*
export TOGETHER_API_KEY=... # together:*
export MOONSHOT_API_KEY=... # moonshot:* (Kimi K3/K2)
export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=... # openrouter:*
export OPENCODE_API_KEY=... # opencode:* (OpenCode Zen gateway)
export NOUS_API_KEY=... # nous:* (Nous Portal — Hermes)
export LITELLM_API_KEY=... # litellm:* (your LiteLLM proxy)
export AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY=... # azure:<deployment> (also set AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT)
# ollama / llamacpp need no key (local)
# then run via API (note: NO --subscription)
./target/release/neurosploit run http://testphp.vulnweb.com/ \
--model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 --vote-n 3 -v
# multi-provider voting panel via API (1st finds, the others adjudicate)
./target/release/neurosploit run http://testphp.vulnweb.com/ \
--model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 --model openai:gpt-5.1 --model gemini:gemini-2.5-pro
Or put the keys in a .env and source it (cp .env.example .env; edit; set -a; . ./.env; set +a).
Provider → env var → endpoint (all OpenAI-compatible):
--model prefix |
Env var | Base URL |
|---|---|---|
anthropic: |
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY |
api.anthropic.com |
openai: |
OPENAI_API_KEY |
api.openai.com |
gemini: |
GEMINI_API_KEY |
generativelanguage.googleapis.com |
xai: |
XAI_API_KEY |
api.x.ai |
nvidia_nim: |
NVIDIA_NIM_API_KEY |
integrate.api.nvidia.com |
deepseek: |
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY |
api.deepseek.com |
mistral: |
MISTRAL_API_KEY |
api.mistral.ai |
qwen: |
DASHSCOPE_API_KEY |
dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com |
groq: |
GROQ_API_KEY |
api.groq.com |
together: |
TOGETHER_API_KEY |
api.together.xyz |
moonshot: |
MOONSHOT_API_KEY |
api.moonshot.ai |
openrouter: |
OPENROUTER_API_KEY |
openrouter.ai |
opencode: |
OPENCODE_API_KEY |
opencode.ai/zen (OpenCode Zen gateway) |
nous: |
NOUS_API_KEY |
inference-api.nousresearch.com (Hermes 4) |
litellm: |
LITELLM_API_KEY |
your LiteLLM proxy (LITELLM_BASE_URL, default localhost:4000) |
azure: |
AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY |
your Azure OpenAI resource (AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT) |
ollama: |
(none) | localhost:11434 |
llamacpp: |
(none) | localhost:8080 |
Run ./target/release/neurosploit models for the full provider/model list.
Local, uncensored & CPU-only —
ollama:andllamacpp:run entirely on your box with no API key and no data leaving the host.llamacpp:targets allama-serverOpenAI-compatible endpoint (override withLLAMACPP_BASE_URL); themodelis whatever gguf you loaded. Ideal for offline engagements and unfiltered offensive prompting.
2) Via subscription (no API key)
--subscription drives your local agentic-CLI login instead of an API key —
install and log into one of the CLIs first:
--model prefix |
CLI used | Login |
|---|---|---|
anthropic: |
claude (Claude Code) |
claude then /login |
openai: |
codex |
codex login |
gemini: |
gemini |
gemini login |
xai: |
grok |
grok login |
opencode: |
opencode |
opencode auth login (or /connect in the TUI) — Zen/plan account |
nous: |
hermes |
hermes setup --portal — Nous Portal OAuth |
opencode: also gets the Playwright MCP (--mcp) like anthropic/openai do.
nous: relies on Hermes's own built-in toolsets (web/terminal/computer-use)
instead — it has no CLI-level MCP hook.
./target/release/neurosploit run http://testphp.vulnweb.com/ \
--subscription --model anthropic:claude-opus-4-8 --mcp -v
How it works
target ─▶ recon (curl/nmap/…) ─▶ INTELLIGENT agent selection (recon-aware)
─▶ parallel exploitation ─▶ cross-model validation vote
─▶ severity/score ─▶ report (HTML + Typst PDF) ─▶ RL reward update
Every run writes a self-contained folder runs/ns-<ts>-<target>/:
| File | Contents |
|---|---|
status.json |
running → complete with a summary |
recon.json / recon.md |
mapped attack surface |
exploitation.md |
raw per-agent transcript |
findings.json / findings.md |
validated findings (reuse by other tools/AIs) |
report.html, report.typ, report.pdf |
final report (PDF via the Typst engine) |
A reinforcement-learning reward store (data/rl_state_rs.json) biases agent
selection on future runs.
Agent library — agents_md/ (435)
| Category | Count | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
vulns/ |
245 | Exploit a specific vulnerability class (web/API) |
code/ |
78 | White-box source-code (SAST) review |
ai/ |
30 | AI/LLM red-teaming, jailbreaks, MCP threats |
infra/ |
34 | Host/cloud: Linux, Windows, AD, AWS/GCP/Azure |
meta/ |
23 | Orchestrator, validator, scorers, reporter, RL |
chains/ |
13 | Multi-stage attack chains (SQLi→RCE→LPE, SSRF→cloud, …) |
recon/ |
12 | Information gathering / attack surface |
Each agent is a self-contained markdown playbook (## User Prompt methodology +
## System Prompt strict anti-false-positive rules). Drop a new .md into the
matching folder — or generate one from the web console's "+ Custom lead" (see above) — and the
harness picks it up; neurosploit agents shows live counts.
Safety
For authorized testing only. Agents are instructed to stay in scope, never run destructive/DoS actions, and require proof-of-exploitation. You are responsible for having permission for any target.
Credits
Joas A Santos & Red Team Leaders.
License
MIT.