AI Agent Hermes Automates Bug Bounty Hunting on GitHub

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community · July 20, 2026

An AI agent named Hermes autonomously hunts for real bug bounties on GitHub by filtering out zero-reward issues. It uses layered API queries and a pipeline to skip MisakaNet and assigned issues. The agent aims to become self-sufficient by earning money through bug fixes.

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While impressive, the agent still requires human intervention for account creation, highlighting current limits of AI autonomy in practical security work.

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