riftor 1.2.0

An open-source offensive-security AI agent that lives in your terminal.

riftor

An open-source offensive-security AI agent that lives in your terminal. Find the rift. Open it. Cross through.

riftor puts an AI copilot at your terminal for offensive security. Talk to it like a teammate — tell it to scan a subnet, dig into a suspicious service, or write up findings — and it runs the tools, respects your scope, and builds the report as you go. Under the hood it follows a structured kill chain: Recon → Intrusion → Foothold → Takeover. Powered by any major LLM through litellm and wrapped in a full-screen Textual interface.

What's inside: a streaming agent with retry/backoff + token/cost metering, persistent granular permissions (allow/deny rules, diff preview before write/edit), a scope guardrail (enforce / dry-run / import-export), RIFT stage tracking, a per-engagement findings store (edit/tag/dedup/CVSS) with reports in md/html/json/sarif, and crash-safe sessions. It also keeps cross-session memory (lessons it carries between engagements), tracks hypotheses (open leads, so it never re-tests a refuted one), runs a self-critique pass over findings before you report, and has an anti-loop circuit breaker that stops it spinning on a repeated call. Plus input history + command palette, headless one-shot mode, Docker, and pytest + types in CI. See todo.md for the roadmap and docs/ for configuration.

Install

pip install riftor                 # or: uv tool install riftor / pipx install riftor
pip install 'riftor[browser]'      # + Playwright, for the browser_* tools (SPA recon)

Requires Python 3.11+ and a model — set one of ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, OPENROUTER_API_KEY (or run a local Ollama server). The [browser] extra is optional (it adds ~hundreds of MB of Chromium binaries); without it the browser tools just print an install hint and everything else works.

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...   # or OPENAI_API_KEY, etc.
riftor                                 # launch the TUI
riftor --config                        # show the config file path
riftor --version
riftor --model openai/gpt-4o           # override the model for this run
riftor --workdir ./engagement          # set the engagement directory
riftor --scope-file scope.txt          # preload scope targets
riftor -p "enumerate 10.0.0.5"         # headless one-shot (also reads stdin)
riftor --doctor                        # check which recon tools are installed

On first launch riftor writes a config file and picks a default model from your environment keys (cloud-first); if no key is set but an Ollama server is running, it falls back to that.

From source

git clone https://github.com/Estudely/riftor && cd riftor
uv sync && uv run riftor

Docker

docker build -t riftor .
docker run -it --rm -e ANTHROPIC_API_KEY -v "$PWD:/work" riftor

The image is minimal (no nmap/httpx/etc.). For full recon tooling, build the bundled variant (docker build --build-arg INSTALL_TOOLS=1 -t riftor:full .), run riftor on a host that has the tools, or extend the image. Missing tools aren't fatal — the agent sees the failed command and adapts; run /doctor (or riftor --doctor) to see which tools are on PATH up front.

Configure

~/.config/riftor/config.toml:

[riftor]
model = "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6"  # any litellm model id
# api_key = "sk-..."                   # prefer the provider's env var
temperature = 0.3
max_tokens = 2048
theme = "rift"
lore = true

# Local option (Ollama):
# model = "ollama_chat/llama3.1"
# api_base = "http://localhost:11434"

Workflow

1. Set scope        /scope add 10.0.0.0/24 example.com
2. Task the agent   "enumerate the web host and look for low-hanging fruit"
                    → it runs recon tools via bash (you approve), records
                      services/findings, and advances the R·I·F·T stage
3. Review           /findings
4. Report           /report            → .riftor/reports/report-*.md and .html

Out-of-scope targets are blocked (with an explicit per-call override). State lives in .riftor/ per working directory; sessions auto-save and resume.

Commands

Command	Action
/help	show commands
/clear	clear the conversation (Ctrl+L)
/retry · /continue [N] · /compact	re-run last turn · extend steps · free context
/copy · /show <id> · /cost	copy last output · expand a result · token/cost total
/model [name] · /theme [name]	switch model / theme
/stage [R|I|F|T]	show or set the RIFT stage
/scope [add|out|rm <t>|clear|on|off|dry|import <f>|export [f]]	manage scope
/findings · /finding <id>	list (severity-sorted) / show one
/edit-finding <id> sev=high tags=… · /delete-finding <id>	triage findings
/review	self-critique findings for false-positive signals before reporting
/hypotheses	list tracked hypotheses (open leads the agent is chasing)
/lesson <text> · /lessons	teach a durable cross-session lesson · list them
/hosts · /services	discovered infrastructure
/report [md|html|json|sarif|both|all]	write a report to .riftor/reports/
/timeline · /export	engagement activity log · archive the engagement
/permissions · /audit	review allow/deny rules · recent tool-call log
/doctor	check which external recon tools (nmap/httpx/…) are installed
/sessions · /resume <id> · /new	manage saved sessions
/config · /tools · /lore · /exit	settings · tools · persona · quit

↑/↓ recall previous prompts · PgUp/PgDn scroll · Ctrl+P command palette · Esc cancels a running response. Dangerous tools (bash/write/edit) prompt for approval (with a diff preview); rm -rf/dd and friends are denied by default; every tool call is written to an audit log. See docs/configuration.md for all settings.

⚠️ --i-know-what-i-am-doing-give-me-full-access (YOLO mode) bypasses every guardrail — no permission prompts, no scope enforcement, no step limit. Only use it on a target you fully control and have explicit authorization for.

Use responsibly

riftor is for authorized security testing only. You are responsible for having explicit, written permission for any system you assess.

License

GPL-3.0.