Benny Neugebauer bennycode

Nick's Guide To AI Assisted Security Audits (October 2026 Edition)

It's a scary time to be an open source software maintainer. I thought I would share my overall setup and workflow for finding vulnerabilities in OSS I am responsible for.

This isn't a single skill, since it involves many models/providers inside and outside of a sandboxed environment. Some steps will only work with Daybreak/CVP enabled or an abliterated model and some will work better with Daybreak turned off. If you point your LLM at this file, you can probably turn it into a less manual workflow around your particular setup.

This process is not meant to be token-efficient or fast. It is meant to find all the vulnerabilities today's frontier tools are capable of finding. I use this process before major releases, with a much lighter and more automation-friendly process for PR checks and periodic audits.

0: Setup

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	#!/bin/bash

	# store the current dir
	CUR_DIR=$(pwd)

	# Let the person running the script know what's going on.
	echo "\n\033[1mPulling in latest changes for all repositories...\033[0m\n"

	# Find all git repositories and update it to the master latest revision
	for i in $(find . -name ".git" \| cut -c 3-); do

	// Ever needed to escape '\n' as '\\n'? This function does that for any character,
	// using hex and/or Unicode escape sequences (whichever are shortest).
	// Demo: http://mothereff.in/js-escapes
	function unicodeEscape(str) {
	return str.replace(/[\s\S]/g, function(character) {
	var escape = character.charCodeAt().toString(16),
	longhand = escape.length > 2;
	return '\\' + (longhand ? 'u' : 'x') + ('0000' + escape).slice(longhand ? -4 : -2);
	});
	}

	const payload = {name: 'text'};
	(require('fs')).writeFileSync(`dump-${Date.now()}.json`, JSON.stringify(payload));