https://geleideng.github.io/tags/security-automation/Security AutomationHugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)en-usThu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://geleideng.github.io/media/icon_hu7729264130191091259.pnghttps://geleideng.github.io/tags/security-automation/https://geleideng.github.io/project/excalibur/Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://geleideng.github.io/project/excalibur/<p>Excalibur is a difficulty-aware LLM agent design for real-world penetration testing.</p> <p>It couples typed tooling, retrieval-augmented security knowledge, task difficulty assessment, and evidence-guided attack tree search to reduce planning failures in multi-step penetration testing tasks.</p>https://geleideng.github.io/publication/llm-agent-pentest/Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://geleideng.github.io/publication/llm-agent-pentest/<p>This paper examines why LLM penetration testing systems succeed or fail in real-world settings, then proposes Excalibur to improve task selection and attack-chain planning through difficulty-aware reasoning.</p>