How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent

With the rise of AI in the security space, our team created the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent as a way for security researchers to easily automate, package, and share the AI prompts and workflows that they find effective for their work. In this blog post, I’ll share how I created auditing taskflows to find vulnerabilities in Android applications.

While new models are getting better at understanding code, custom taskflow prompts let security researchers guide them—splitting research into incremental steps to help the LLM find complex vulnerabilities faster, or that it would have missed entirely.

Using these taskflows, I’ve reported more than 20 vulnerabilities in Android applications. You can check out our advisories page to see when new vulnerabilities are disclosed. Otherwise, keep reading for a few concrete examples of high-impact vulnerabilities that these taskflows found.

How to run the taskflows on your own project

Want to get started right away? The taskflows are open source and easy to run …