Agentic Bug Hunter

AI-powered bug bounty hunting — recon to report, in your terminal.
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uv tool install agentic-bug-hunter   # install the CLI (or: pipx install agentic-bug-hunter)
bughunter setup                      # connect a free AI provider

Then hunt — straight from your terminal:

bughunter hunt target.com            # recon → find → validate → report

…or drive it from inside Claude Code:

/hunt target.com

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What Is This?

Agentic Bug Hunter finds real, reportable bugs, not theoretical ones. Point it at a target and it runs recon, tests for vulnerabilities, validates findings against a strict gate, and writes a submission-ready report for HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, or Immunefi.

It remembers everything: patterns found on one target inform the next, and sessions pick up where they left off.

Works as a Claude Code plugin, or as a fully standalone CLI (bughunter) with no subscription required.

Standalone Mode: No Subscription Required

You no longer need Claude Code, Claude Pro, or any paid AI subscription.

Install once, use the bughunter command from any terminal on your machine:

git clone https://github.com/Awarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter.git
cd Agentic-Bug-Hunter
./install.sh --agent standalone

Rerun the same command after pulling updates. The installer detects and refreshes the active managed bughunter command, including older installations under /usr/local/bin or ~/.local/bin, while preserving your saved provider configuration in ~/.bughunter/config.json.

To uninstall the standalone command while keeping its configuration:

./uninstall.sh --agent standalone

Use --purge-config to also delete ~/.bughunter/config.json. The uninstaller also supports claude, opencode, pi, codex, agents, and all targets.

bughunter help               # show every command
bughunter setup              # choose your AI provider (Ollama is free + offline)
bughunter recon target.com   # map the attack surface
bughunter hunt  target.com   # hunt for vulnerabilities
bughunter validate "finding" # 7-Question Gate on your finding
bughunter report             # write a submission-ready report
bughunter chat               # interactive AI hunting shell
bughunter providers          # list all available AI providers
bughunter models             # list models and show the selected one
bughunter status             # check which provider is active
bughunter h target.com       # short alias for hunt
bughunter r target.com       # short alias for recon
bughunter v "finding"        # short alias for validate

Free AI Providers (auto-detected, free-first priority)

BugHunter auto-detects providers in this order: Ollama → Groq → DeepSeek → … → OrcaRouter → OpenRouter → Claude → OpenAI. LiteLLM is opt-in (selected explicitly or when LITELLM_API_KEY is set) so it never preempts a provider you already configured. Requesty is opt-in the same way (selected explicitly or when REQUESTY_API_KEY is set); set REQUESTY_BASE_URL=https://router.eu.requesty.ai/v1 to route through the EU region.

Switch providers or choose an installed Ollama model anytime: bughunter setup. The setup can also be fully non-interactive:

bughunter setup --provider ollama --model qwen2.5:14b

For a one-off override, put the option before the command:

bughunter --provider ollama --model qwen3:14b hunt target.com

Zero-cost fully offline setup

# 1. Install Ollama (runs AI locally, no internet needed after download)
curl -fsSL https://ollama.ai/install.sh | sh
ollama pull qwen2.5:14b          # ~9 GB, one-time download

# 2. Install BugHunter
git clone https://github.com/Awarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter.git
cd Agentic-Bug-Hunter
./install.sh --agent standalone   # creates system-wide 'bughunter' command

# 3. Hunt
bughunter setup       # choose Ollama, then choose one of its installed models
bughunter recon target.com

Groq setup (free cloud, fastest option)

export GROQ_API_KEY="your-key-here"     # free at console.groq.com
./install.sh --agent standalone
bughunter setup       # choose Groq
bughunter hunt target.com

Quick Start

Fastest - install from PyPI

pip install agentic-bug-hunter
bughunter setup                   # pick a free AI provider
bughunter recon target.com
bughunter hunt  target.com

Installs the bughunter and bughunter-agent commands. The AI hunting works out of the box; full recon also uses external CLIs (subfinder, httpx, nuclei, katana, ffuf, nmap). Get them with install_tools.sh from the repo, or your package manager. Output is written to ~/.bughunter/ (override with BUGHUNTER_HOME).

Option A - standalone (no subscription, works for everyone)

git clone https://github.com/Awarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter.git
cd Agentic-Bug-Hunter
./install.sh --agent standalone   # creates system-wide 'bughunter' command
bughunter setup                   # pick a free AI provider
bughunter recon target.com
bughunter hunt  target.com
bughunter validate "my finding"
bughunter report

Option B - Claude Code plugin (requires Claude Code)

git clone https://github.com/Awarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter.git
cd Agentic-Bug-Hunter
chmod +x install_tools.sh && ./install_tools.sh   # subfinder · httpx · nuclei · katana · ffuf
chmod +x install.sh      && ./install.sh          # skills + commands → ~/.claude/

claude
/recon target.com        # map the attack surface
/hunt target.com         # test for vulnerabilities
/validate                # run the 7-Question Gate
/report                  # write the submission

Option C - let Claude install it (Claude Code only)

Open your terminal, run claude, then paste:

Install the Claude Bug Bounty toolkit from https://github.com/Awarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter
into ~/tools/. Clone the repo, run ./install_tools.sh then ./install.sh.
Verify /recon /hunt /validate /report are available.

MCP

Use Agentic-Bug-Hunter from AI agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode).

AI Agent → Agentic-Bug-Hunter MCP → Scope → Recon → Hunt → Validate → Report

pip install 'mcp>=2.2.0'
./install.sh --agent mcp
bughunter mcp doctor
bughunter mcp serve

MCP is an adapter over the existing research engine — not a second scanner. Active tools require scope and explicit approval. See docs/mcp.md.

Commands

Core Workflow

Recon & Enumeration

Scanners (Web + LLM)

Smart Contract (Web3)

Session & Utility

What It Finds