Automate your own hacking methodology with Vulnetic

With the release of Claude 4.5, our hacking agent saw a flurry of improvements listed here. The most notable one was methodologies. In This article, I’d like to go over how you can automate your own hacking workflow using our agent.

Methodology text allows you to directly flavor the assessment the way you like it. Giving it an identifiable title and a few sentences about what your primary goal is noticeably improves the agent’s hacking capabilities. An example prompt could be:

“I want you to focus on quiet enumeration using tools like Katana and Paramspider. Locate sinks and use ffuf to fuzz. Keep requests under 5 per second and use wafw00f to detect firewalls on target. Your end goal is to find injection vulnerabilities that reveal PII”.

1. We established tools we want the agent to specifically use. 2. We provided a guardrail with 5 requests a second. 3. The agent now has a clear end goal in finding injection vulnerabilities. 4. Instructions are short and to the point.

The next step is to create some base starting tasks. These will populate the assessment and run before the agent can create its own tasks. When we were running initial testing on the use of LLMs for hacking, it was clear that assessments are far better with tighter scopes and the same initial few commands. You are the expert hacker, so if there are specific enumeration commands you like, give it to our hacking agent!

Once we have the initial task, I often like to add two more for web apps. The second task will often include a request for the agent to make some custom wordlists based on endpoints / parameters we found, and the third will have the agent begin fuzzing.

Once we have finished our custom methodology, just click save and head over to the “new pentest” page to select and try it out.

We can now see that the tasks we made have populated the event log and will commence once we press the play icon. Throughout the assessment, if there are new tasks you would like to add for the agent to complete, just press the plus icon in the top right and specify a new task.

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