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Autonomous AI Pentester — find vulnerabilities before hackers do

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🥀 Briar — Autonomous AI Pentester

Find vulnerabilities before hackers do. Free. Open Source. No Docker.

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Briar is an autonomous AI pentester. It scans web applications, injects real payloads, validates exploits, and generates professional security reports — powered by 11 AI providers including a completely free local mode via Ollama.

pip install briar-pentest && briar setup && briar scan -u https://target.com --deep

What Briar Found — Real Example

Against a file server on port 666 (ransomware-like deployment):

# Vulnerability Severity CVSS
1 Path Traversal 🔴 Critical 9.1
2 IDOR — File Enumeration 🟠 High 7.5
3 Unauthenticated File Access 🔴 Critical 9.1
4 Arbitrary File Upload (RCE) 🔴 Critical 9.8
5 Directory Listing 🟠 High 6.5
6 HTTP Verb Tampering 🟡 Medium 5.0
7 Missing Security Headers 🟢 Low 3.1
8 SSRF via URL param 🟠 High 8.6
9 Reflected XSS 🟠 High 7.2
10 Sensitive File Exposure 🟡 Medium 5.3

Each finding includes: copy-paste curl PoC, CVSS score, tech-specific remediation (nginx/Apache/Flask/Express code).


Features

Category Details
🤖 11 AI Providers Ollama (free, local), OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, xAI/Grok, Google/Gemini, OpenRouter, Together, Custom
🛡️ 12 Security Agents Recon, Injection, XSS, SSRF, Auth, AuthZ, CSRF, Upload, Traversal, RCE, API, Secrets
🎯 No Exploit, No Report Every High/Critical finding replayed and confirmed before reporting
🔌 Blackbox + Whitebox Works with just a URL. Add -r /path/to/source for code-aware analysis
📡 Port Scanning 24 common ports scanned during recon
📓 LLM-Wiki (Obsidian) Interlinked vault, frontmatter YAML, index, log, canvas mindmap — Karpathy pattern
📄 Reports Markdown, Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), HTML slides
📊 Charts Donut severity, heatmap severity×endpoint, bar charts (type + agent)
🌐 Dashboard Web UI on port 8233 (FastAPI) with live scan launcher
💾 Workspaces Resume interrupted scans, checkpoint after every agent
⚙️ YAML Config Authenticated scanning, login flows, custom rules (avoid/focus paths)
🐳 No Docker Required Native Python. pip install and go. Docker optional.

Quick Start

# Install
pip install briar-pentest

# Configure (pick Ollama for free local AI)
briar setup

# Quick scan
briar scan -u https://target.com --quick

# Deep scan with browser exploits
briar scan -u https://target.com --deep

# With config file (authenticated)
briar scan -c config.yaml

# Resume interrupted scan
briar scan --resume workspace-name

# Web dashboard
briar serve  # → http://localhost:8233

Config File (YAML)

target:
  url: http://localhost:3000
provider: deepseek
mode: deep

authentication:
  login_url: /rest/user/login
  method: json
  credentials:
    email: admin@test.com
    password: admin123

rules:
  avoid:
    - path: /logout
  focus:
    - path: /api
    - path: /rest

Commands

briar             Show banner + version
briar status      Show configured provider + API key
briar setup       Pick AI provider (interactive)
briar scan        Run pentest (-u URL, --quick, --deep, -c config.yaml)
briar serve       Start web dashboard (:8233)
briar workspaces  List saved workspaces
briar resume      Resume an interrupted scan

Install from Source

git clone https://github.com/Stiimy/briar
cd briar
pip install -e .
briar setup

License: AGPL-3.0 — Free. Forever.

"No exploit, no report."

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