# Agentic pentesting’s hardest challenge is the harness, not the AI

A Hacker News analysis argues that the difficult part of using AI agents for penetration testing is building the surrounding harness—the controls, tooling, and guardrails—rather than the agent itself. This matters because effective agentic security testing depends on reliable orchestration and oversight, not just model capability.

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## Sources

### Security
- [The Hacker News](https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/the-harness-is-hard-part-of-agentic.html) — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:02:40 +0530