---
id: 187
title: "What I learned building AI agents for bug bounty hunting"
source_domain: bugcrowd.com
source_url: "https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/what-i-learned-building-ai-agents-for-bug-bounty-hunting/"
published_at: "2026-02-18 13:00"
tags: ["ai-security", "bug-bounty", "automation", "information-disclosure", "ai-agents", "crewai", "false-positives", "bash"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/187"
lang: en
---

# What I learned building AI agents for bug bounty hunting

## Summary

A hacker's four-agent CrewAI pipeline for finding information-disclosure bugs produced mostly false positives; only report generation kept an agent, while the rest returned to plain Bash automation.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bugcrowd.com
- **Published:** 2026-02-18 13:00
- **Original:** https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/what-i-learned-building-ai-agents-for-bug-bounty-hunting/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/187