Vigil
AI harness for long-running code audits, web pentests, and bug bounty hunting, built around how real investigations fail: anchored hypotheses, false negatives, and unreproducible reports.
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Details
- External ID
- 1413199507
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Vigil
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 22
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.46
- Tags
- —
Enrichment
- Niche
- penetration testing tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- autonomous ai agents for penetration testing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping LLM agents with LangChain/Temporal to run bash commands is straightforward, securely sandboxing and reliably executing automated offensive security operations against arbitrary targets requires non-trivial infrastructure.
What it would actually take: Requires a durable orchestration engine (such as Temporal), Docker/container isolation per penetration test run containing Kali Linux toolchains, and a robust verification/guardrail system to parse security tool outputs (nmap, metasploit) while preventing destructive command execution.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 2819 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1393 of 2820 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
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