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Cochise: A Reference Harness for Autonomous Penetration Testing

Andreas Happe, J\"urgen Cito

Cochise supplies a minimal 597-line Python harness that separates planning from execution to support reproducible comparisons of LLM agents in penetration testing.

arxiv:2605.11671 v2 · 2026-05-12 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.SE

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Claims

C1strongest claim

Cochise is intended not as a state-of-the-art pen-testing agent, but as reusable experimental infrastructure for comparing models, agent architectures, and penetration-testing traces.

C2weakest assumption

That a minimal separated Planner-Executor architecture connected via SSH to a Linux host is sufficient to enable meaningful comparisons of LLM choices and agent designs across different penetration-testing scenarios.

C3one line summary

Cochise is a minimal open-source harness implementing a Planner-Executor architecture over SSH for LLM-driven autonomous penetration testing, demonstrated on the GOAD testbed with released replay tools and trajectory logs.

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First computed	2026-08-04T02:40:41.817461Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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38291293b8f5859b22920c3e919cdf8b3a181b845c7477fcce72e772cbd41088

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arxiv: 2605.11671 · arxiv_version: 2605.11671v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.11671 · pith_short_12: HAURFE5Y6WCZ · pith_short_16: HAURFE5Y6WCZWIUS · pith_short_8: HAURFE5Y

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