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Towards Cybersecurity SuperIntelligence (CSI): What's the best harness for cybersecurity?

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What is the best harness for cybersecurity AI? Cybersecurity systems are converging on a single execution scaffold per agent, an iterative shell loop driven by a Large Language Model (LLM). However, scaffolds are not interchangeable, rarely interoperable, and no single scaffold dominates across all challenge types. In our path towards researching Cybersecurity SuperIntelligence (CSI), we present a meta-scaffold that unifies heterogeneous agent harnesses under a common orchestration layer, enabling any LLM-driven scaffold to be deployed, benchmarked, and composed within the same infrastructure. Using CSI, we benchmark five scaffolds (CSI::Claude, CSI::Codex, CSI::GCAI, CSI::Mistral, CSI::CAI) on the 33 cybench challenges, holding the model fixed at alias2-mini. The best individual scaffolds solve 15/33 (45.5%); the four-scaffold union solves 17/33 (51.5%), with the fifth (CSI::Mistral, 10/33) contributing one exclusive solve. We find that no single scaffold is the best harness: it is the combination of structurally heterogeneous scaffolds that yields the highest coverage. We validate this through CSI's blackboard-based multi-agent architecture, in which scaffold-specialised agents run in parallel and exchange intermediate findings via a shared substrate (a blackboard). The blackboard solves 19/33 (57.6%), a 27% relative gain over CSI::Claude, one of the best individual scaffolds (15/33, 45.5%), 25% faster (20.2 h vs. 26.8 h), at comparable cost ($5,480 vs. $5,122).

V\'ictor Mayoral-Vilches, Francesco Balassone, Mar\'ia Sanz-G\'omez, Paul Zabalegui Landa, Daniel S\'anchez Prieto, Marina Oteiza \'Alvarez, Davide Quarta, Martin Pinzger• 2026

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TaskDatasetResultRank
Capture The Flag (CTF) / Reverse Engineeringflecks_of_gold (33 challenges)
Challenges Solved19
5
Cybersecurity Challenge SolvingCybench 33-challenge
Solved Count15
4
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