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Corgea: Agentic Pentesting

An autonomous penetration testing engine that runs in hours and not weeks

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YC · launched Jun 24, 2026 · 18 upvotes (top 41%) · 1 view

Niche: penetration testing tools · 138 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Security
  • Agent / copilot
  • B2B
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Developer Tools
  • SaaS
  • Security
  • Cybersecurity
  • AI

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Could you build this?

No Autonomous application penetration testing requires specialized static and dynamic vulnerability analysis, exploit verification, and low-level security research that vibe coding cannot replicate.

What it would actually take: The platform requires specialized static analysis parsers (such as custom Rust AST scanners) combined with dynamic application security testing (DAST) harnesses capable of navigating stateful auth flows. It demands a deterministic verification engine that safely simulates attacks in isolated ephemeral environments to eliminate false positives, designed by seasoned offensive security engineers.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 4017 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1547 of 4018 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 238 days after the earliest competitor.

  • heimdall-pentest · github · 2026-09-14 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.87
  • PentestPi · github · 2026-09-09 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.87
  • Deadend CLI · hn · 2026-02-11 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.80
  • pwner · github · 2026-11-02 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.80
  • Xalgorix · hn · 2026-07-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.76
  • ai-pentest-agent · github · 2026-10-15 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.76
  • Nightcrawler · hn · 2026-08-03 · 120 upvotes · similarity 0.75
  • Xalgorix · hn · 2026-08-19 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.73

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