Pentest-R1 Autonomous Penetration Testing

Skill by ara.so — Security Skills collection

Pentest-R1 is a two-stage reinforcement learning framework that trains Large Language Models for autonomous penetration testing. It combines offline RL on expert walkthroughs with online RL in interactive CTF environments to develop robust attack reasoning capabilities.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11.11
• Docker (for Stage 2 and reproducible environments)
• NVIDIA Container Toolkit (for GPU support)
• CUDA 12.4 runtime (optional, for GPU acceleration)

Basic Setup