"Aardvark, OpenAI's new agentic security researcher powered by GPT-5 and released Thursday, can assist security teams by identifying and helping patch vulnerabilities. The agent is meant to tackle existing challenges in the software security space, as tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are discovered across enterprise and open-source codebases every year, the company said in the blog post. OpenAI noted that Aardvark began as an internal tool to help its own developers."
"Simply put, Aardvark is an agent that, when connected to a repository, can discover, explain, and help fix security vulnerabilities. It achieves this by leveraging LLM-powered reasoning and tool use, and taking a unique approach that can be divided into easy-to-understand stages. As Knight explained to me, Aardvark will first examine the repository to understand what the codebase is for and its security implications, including objectives and design."
Aardvark is an agentic security researcher powered by GPT-5 and released in private beta to assist security teams in discovering and fixing vulnerabilities. The agent connects to repositories, analyzes codebase purpose and design, and searches for vulnerabilities by examining past actions and recent commits. Aardvark annotates discovered issues in code to explain risks and recommended fixes for human review and remediation. The tool originated as an internal developer aid and is intended to address the high volume of enterprise and open-source security flaws found annually.
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