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Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look

As of 19 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 32 of 32 outbound references and 2 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2605.21497.

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Observation 65631bbe-0d07-4a1c-a5bf-e7f12e1f1cca · outbound

This paper cites About penetration testing.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look About penetration testing

Reference 1

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This paper cites Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment

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This paper cites 2024 isc2 cybersecurity workforce study.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look 2024 isc2 cybersecurity workforce study

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This paper cites 2025 unit 42 global incident response report.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look 2025 unit 42 global incident response report

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This paper cites When llms meet cybersecu- rity: A systematic literature review.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look When llms meet cybersecu- rity: A systematic literature review

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This paper cites PentestGPT: Evaluating and harnessing large language models for automated pene- tration testing.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look PentestGPT: Evaluating and harnessing large language models for automated pene- tration testing

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This paper cites Getting pwn’d by ai: Penetration testing with large language models.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Getting pwn’d by ai: Penetration testing with large language models

Reference 7

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This paper cites Au- topenbench: A vulnerability testing benchmark for generative agents.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Au- topenbench: A vulnerability testing benchmark for generative agents

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This paper cites Teams of llm agents can exploit zero-day vulnerabilities.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Teams of llm agents can exploit zero-day vulnerabilities

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This paper cites Vulnbot: Autonomous penetration testing for a multi-agent collaborative framework.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Vulnbot: Autonomous penetration testing for a multi-agent collaborative framework

Reference 10

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Observation cf585d34-426b-4744-90cb-8aa5135849b3 · outbound

This paper cites Multi-agent penetration testing ai for the web.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Multi-agent penetration testing ai for the web

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This paper cites Cybench: A framework for evaluating cybersecurity capabilities and risks of language models.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Cybench: A framework for evaluating cybersecurity capabilities and risks of language models

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This paper cites CVE- bench: A benchmark for AI agents’ ability to exploit real-world web application vulnerabilities.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look CVE- bench: A benchmark for AI agents’ ability to exploit real-world web application vulnerabilities

Reference 13

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Observation f73f074d-d939-4da0-a9a5-fa52cc40daa2 · outbound

This paper cites Claude is competitive with humans in (some) cyber com- petitions.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Claude is competitive with humans in (some) cyber com- petitions

Reference 14

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Observation ea6651d5-949a-42c1-aa92-684441332cd2 · outbound

This paper cites The road to top 1: How xbow did it.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look The road to top 1: How xbow did it

Reference 15

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Observation 0564a59e-536d-4e6f-bc46-61f526e91308 · outbound

This paper cites Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world penetration testing.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world penetration testing

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This paper cites Ten years of{iCTF}: The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Ten years of{iCTF}: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Reference 17

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This paper cites Nyu ctf bench: A scalable open-source benchmark dataset for evaluating llms in offensive security.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Nyu ctf bench: A scalable open-source benchmark dataset for evaluating llms in offensive security

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This paper cites Plan-and-solve prompting: Improving zero-shot chain-of-thought reasoning by large language models.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Plan-and-solve prompting: Improving zero-shot chain-of-thought reasoning by large language models

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This paper cites Evaluation and benchmarking of llm agents: A survey.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Evaluation and benchmarking of llm agents: A survey

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This paper cites Cognitive architectures for language agents.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Cognitive architectures for language agents

Reference 21

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This paper cites React: Synergizing reasoning and acting in language models.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look React: Synergizing reasoning and acting in language models

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This paper cites Toolformer: Language models can teach themselves to use tools.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Toolformer: Language models can teach themselves to use tools

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This paper cites Autogen: Enabling next-gen llm applications via multi-agent conversations.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Autogen: Enabling next-gen llm applications via multi-agent conversations

Reference 24

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This paper cites Agentverse: Facili- tating multi-agent collaboration and exploring emergent behaviors.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Agentverse: Facili- tating multi-agent collaboration and exploring emergent behaviors

Reference 25

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This paper cites Cybersleuth: Autonomous blue-team llm agent for web attack forensics.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Cybersleuth: Autonomous blue-team llm agent for web attack forensics

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This paper cites From generation to judgment: Opportunities and challenges of llm-as-a-judge.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look From generation to judgment: Opportunities and challenges of llm-as-a-judge

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This paper cites Claude code overview.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Claude code overview

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This paper cites How claude remembers your project.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look How claude remembers your project

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Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Introducing gpt-4.1 in the api

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Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Gpt-5 system card

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This paper cites Claude opus 4.6 system card.

Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look Claude opus 4.6 system card

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Cyber-Capable AI Agents: Vulnerabilities, Evaluation Containment, and Defensive Response cites this paper.

Cyber-Capable AI Agents: Vulnerabilities, Evaluation Containment, and Defensive Response Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look

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Cyber-Capable AI Agents: Vulnerabilities, Evaluation Containment, and Defensive Response cites this paper.

Cyber-Capable AI Agents: Vulnerabilities, Evaluation Containment, and Defensive Response Autonomous LLM Agents & CTFs: A Second Look

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