Pliny the Liberator turns Claude Code into a rogue hacker bot
The infamous jailbreak artist Pliny the Liberator just dropped T3MP3ST, a tool that forces AI agents to hunt for vulnerabilities like a caffeinated pentester. Finally, a way to make your expensive subscription actually do the dirty work for you.
The framework acts as a harness for AI agents, plugging Claude Code, Codex, or Hermes into a stack of classic security tools like nmap. Instead of wasting time on manual scans, the AI is assigned specific roles like Recon or Scanner to navigate the standard kill chain.
While the project claims a 90.1% success rate on the XBOW benchmark, the developers are refreshingly honest: most of the advanced modules like the Infiltrator or Exfiltrator are just placeholder interfaces for now. The tool successfully identified vulnerabilities in real-world CVE scenarios, but it hasn't actually "pwned" anything in a full-blown autonomous swarm yet.
We are officially entering the era where the lazy path is the most dangerous one. Giving an LLM a terminal window and a list of targets is basically handing a loaded gun to a toddler who just read a book on ballistics—eventually, someone is going to get hurt, even if the toddler is currently just using the gun as a fancy paperweight.
Source: GitHub
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