Decepticon
ActiveDescription
Decepticon is an autonomous hacking agent framework for red-team scenarios, automating penetration testing and vulnerability discovery.
Key Features
- Autonomous hacking agent — End-to-end automated penetration testing
- Multi-stage attack chain — Reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation and more
- Tool integration — Built-in common security tools and custom script execution
- Decision planning — LLM-driven dynamic attack strategy adjustment
- Report generation — Auto-generated pentest reports and vulnerability lists
- Security research — Authorized environments only, focused on defense improvement
Use Cases
💡 Automating penetration testing and vulnerability verification in authorized ranges
💡 Training security teams to recognize agent-driven attack patterns
💡 Building reusable attack toolchains for red team exercises
💡 Benchmarking different LLMs in red-team task capability
💡 Providing real attack behavior sample data for defense systems
Strengths & Limitations
✅ Strengths
- • Actively maintained, recent updates
- • High community interest (5.4k stars)
- • Permissive open-source license (Apache-2.0)
- • Responsive to issues, low backlog
Categories
Quick Start
# Authorized environments only
git clone https://github.com/PurpleAILAB/Decepticon.git
cd Decepticon
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Configure LLM API key and start
python decepticon.py --target <authorized-target>