arxivcs.CRcs.AI2026-07-13
Baselines Before Architecture: Evaluating Coding Agents for Autonomous Penetration Testing
Ananda Dhakal, Krish Neupane, Aarjan Chaudhary
Recent autonomous penetration testing papers report high benchmark scores while adding multi-component security harnesses around frontier LLMs. Because these systems often change both architecture and backbone model, it is difficult to tell how much performance comes from the har…