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Aardvark (agentic security researcher)

OpenAI · 30 October 2025

Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered agent that scans repositories for vulnerabilities, validates them and proposes patches, opens in private beta.

Builds a threat model of a codebase, monitors commits, tests exploitability in a sandbox and proposes fixes. Found 92% of known and synthetically introduced bugs on "golden" repositories; ten CVEs from open-source scanning.

Date
Thursday, 30 October 2025
Lab
OpenAI
Kind
product
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MeasureValueMeasured by
Recall on golden repositories92%
known plus synthetically introduced vulnerabilities
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Became Codex Security (research preview 2026-03-06) per OpenAI news titles; not opened.

Sources

  1. openai.com/index/introducing-aardvark/

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