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Self-taught dev & security researcher. Building autonomous pen testing agents on local LLMs. Founder @ Halo Cybersecurity. No cloud. No limits.

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My AI pentest agent reported 23 root shells. It had actually popped zero.

Weak heuristics caused hallucinated success

My AI pentest agent reported 23 root shells. It had actually popped zero.

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HALO v2.7: One Registry, 29 Tools, and a More Reliable MCP Architecture

HALO v2.7: One Registry, 29 Tools, and a More Reliable MCP Architecture

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From Tool-Runner to Decision Engine: Upgrading an Autonomous Security Agent's Harness

From Tool-Runner to Decision Engine: Upgrading an Autonomous Security Agent's Harness

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Anatomy of a Pentest Dropbox: How Remote Internal Assessments Actually Work

Anatomy of a Pentest Dropbox: How Remote Internal Assessments Actually Work

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# Online vs. Offline Password Attacks: A Field Guide

# Online vs. Offline Password Attacks: A Field Guide

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# Getting Listed: Publishing an Offensive-Security Agent to the MCP Registries

# Getting Listed: Publishing an Offensive-Security Agent to the MCP Registries

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I Built a Fully Local, Autonomous AI Pentesting Agent — Now I’m Teaching It to Speak MCP

I Built a Fully Local, Autonomous AI Pentesting Agent — Now I’m Teaching It to Speak MCP

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Your autonomous agent will lie to you about success

Your autonomous agent will lie to you about success

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# Wiring Real Agents Into Halo: From Stub Orchestrator to a Working Multi-Agent Pentest Pipeline

# Wiring Real Agents Into Halo: From Stub Orchestrator to a Working Multi-Agent Pentest Pipeline

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SkillCloak Exposes a Dangerous Blind Spot in AI Security

SkillCloak Exposes a Dangerous Blind Spot in AI Security

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Ai is doing it again: Strong armed by AI for Bitcoin

Ai is doing it again: Strong armed by AI for Bitcoin

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Building Halo’s Multi-Agent Architecture: From Single Loop to Five Specialists

Building Halo’s Multi-Agent Architecture: From Single Loop to Five Specialists

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🧠 Tokenization in Modern LLMs: The Hidden Mechanics Behind AI Costs and Reasoning

🧠 Tokenization in Modern LLMs: The Hidden Mechanics Behind AI Costs and Reasoning

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How I stopped paying for AI

How I stopped paying for AI

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The LLM Cost Death Spiral (And How I Got Out of It)

The LLM Cost Death Spiral (And How I Got Out of It)

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Halo Is Going Multi-Agent: Splitting One Brain Into Five

Halo Is Going Multi-Agent: Splitting One Brain Into Five

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Someone Built a Physical Gear Shifter for Claude — and It's a Better UX Lesson Than Most Software Ships

Someone Built a Physical Gear Shifter for Claude — and It's a Better UX Lesson Than Most Software Ships

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Chasing the Light: How the June Solstice Game Jam Turned One Prompt Into a Hundred Different Games

Chasing the Light: How the June Solstice Game Jam Turned One Prompt Into a Hundred Different Games

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The Future of Agentic AI Memory Systems

The Future of Agentic AI Memory Systems

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Prompt Injection Isn’t Going Away — Jason Haddix on the Architecture Problem Nobody Wants to Admit

Prompt Injection Isn’t Going Away — Jason Haddix on the Architecture Problem Nobody Wants to Admit

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Autonomous Pentesting Is Closer Than Expected — Jason Haddix on Where the Ceiling Actually Is

Autonomous Pentesting Is Closer Than Expected — Jason Haddix on Where the Ceiling Actually Is

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GEMMA-by-GOOGLE

GEMMA-by-GOOGLE

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Tool #23: Teaching Halo to Play Detective with Sherlock

Tool #23: Teaching Halo to Play Detective with Sherlock

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The Bug That Made My Pentesting Agent Give Up

The Bug That Made My Pentesting Agent Give Up

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GEMMA-by-GOOGLE

GEMMA-by-GOOGLE

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