apex: AI-powered offensive security testing using autonomous agents, directly in your terminal

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Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 68/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours.

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars323
Forks62
LanguageTypeScript
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseApache-2.0
Quality Score68/100
Open Issues58
Last Updated2026-11-05
Created2025-10-10
Platformsnode
Est. Tokens~15k

About apex

Pensar Apex AI-powered penetration testing using autonomous agents — directly in your terminal. Run blackbox and whitebox pentests that explore, reason, and surface real vulnerabilities. Want to run from the cloud or integrate it with your CI/CD? See Pensar Console. -- -- Use Cases Developers Run before merging a PR — catch v

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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