I spent two semesters building an AI agent that runs penetration tests. For the non-hackers in the room, penetration tests are basically security assessments where you try to break into a system to find vulnerabilities before someone else does. My project aims to automate this process. It proposes commands, executes them on an isolated virtual machine over SSH, and chains together multi-step attack workflows the same way a human tester would. Every action passes through safety and approval gates