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      <title>Insomnia: an autonomous AI red team that runs a pentest from recon to report</title>
      <dc:creator>Insomnia</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/insom_ai/insomnia-an-autonomous-ai-red-team-that-runs-a-pentest-from-recon-to-report-ikp</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Most companies get a real penetration test once a year, if that. A senior tester spends days on recon and scanning, chains a few exploits by hand, and then writes the report. It is slow, it is expensive, and it does not scale.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Insomnia is our attempt to fix that. It is an autonomous AI pentesting suite: you point it at a target and a team of seven AI agents runs the whole engagement on its own, from recon and OSINT to scanning, CVE validation, exploitation and privilege escalation, then hands you a client-ready report.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Watch it in action
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://insom.ai/en/videos" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F2bflgg1ol144jhnw4tyu.png" alt="Insomnia dashboard during a live scan" width="800" height="446"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Full 36-minute voiced walkthrough:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://insom.ai/static/video/demos/00-insomnia-full-walkthrough-voiced.mp4" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://insom.ai/static/video/demos/00-insomnia-full-walkthrough-voiced.mp4&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Short demo of every module&lt;/strong&gt; (web scanner, OSINT canvas, Active Directory, C2, Report Studio, MCP server and more): &lt;a href="https://insom.ai/en/videos" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://insom.ai/en/videos&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What the AI red team does
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The seven agents split an engagement the way a human team would. Recon and OSINT feed targets to the scanners, findings get validated against known CVEs, and the exploitation side tries to prove real impact instead of dumping a list of maybes. Everything ends up in one report with CVSS scores and fixes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It is also MCP-native, so you can drive a full assessment from an AI assistant in plain language.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What is inside
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;275+ web attack modules: SQLi, XSS, CSRF, JWT, GraphQL and API testing&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;20+ protocol scanners with matching against 30,000+ CVEs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;OSINT with 200+ transforms on a visual canvas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Active Directory auditing with BloodHound mapping&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Intercepting proxy, fuzzing and out-of-band testing&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cloud and infrastructure checks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Command and control for post-exploitation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Report Studio: one-click PDF, DOCX and HTML reports with CVSS scoring&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;CI/CD pipeline builder, plus VS Code and JetBrains plugins&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Screenshots
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Dashboard and live scanning across 275+ modules
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F2bflgg1ol144jhnw4tyu.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F2bflgg1ol144jhnw4tyu.png" alt="Insomnia dashboard and live scanning" width="800" height="446"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Intercepting proxy and OSINT reconnaissance
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F5gpripkyh3dudctuwuct.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F5gpripkyh3dudctuwuct.png" alt="Insomnia proxy and OSINT" width="800" height="446"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Exploitation arsenal and payload configuration
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F2luyey05zdddxq3eundh.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F2luyey05zdddxq3eundh.png" alt="Insomnia exploitation arsenal" width="800" height="446"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Active Directory attacks with BloodHound mapping
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fgxp8tr4ib7ihbhs34o1h.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fgxp8tr4ib7ihbhs34o1h.png" alt="Insomnia Active Directory module" width="800" height="446"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Cloud and infrastructure security testing
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fiqffpiy1qqk9h2mkldag.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fiqffpiy1qqk9h2mkldag.png" alt="Insomnia cloud and infrastructure testing" width="800" height="446"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Command and control with post-exploitation
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Ftkjreg6y1p7ti6hr4blm.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Ftkjreg6y1p7ti6hr4blm.png" alt="Insomnia command and control" width="800" height="446"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Reporting and knowledge base
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fk5mxk9f40zffauclmy8q.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fk5mxk9f40zffauclmy8q.png" alt="Insomnia reporting and knowledge base" width="800" height="446"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Network utilities
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fdwzvqy8in4h73lrnxxop.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fdwzvqy8in4h73lrnxxop.png" alt="Insomnia network utilities" width="800" height="446"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Free SAST CLI
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The static analysis engine is free and open. It scans source code for vulnerabilities and leaked secrets, and validates live keys.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight shell"&gt;&lt;code&gt;pip &lt;span class="nb"&gt;install &lt;/span&gt;sast
npm i &lt;span class="nt"&gt;-g&lt;/span&gt; sastai
docker pull dominators/sast
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Source and docs: &lt;a href="https://github.com/vulnz/sast" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://github.com/vulnz/sast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Pricing
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"&gt;&lt;table&gt;
&lt;thead&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Plan&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;th&gt;Price&lt;/th&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/thead&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Community Edition&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Free&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;SAST CLI and CI/CD wizard&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Free&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Advanced&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;$149/month&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Pro&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;$399/month&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Enterprise&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;On request&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Who it is for
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MSSPs that want continuous testing across their whole client base&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Red teams that need a force multiplier, not another headcount&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dev and DevSecOps teams that want real security checks in CI&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please only test systems you own or have written permission to test.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Try it:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="https://insom.ai" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://insom.ai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We would love feedback from people who run pentests for a living. What would you want an autonomous red team to never do on its own?&lt;/p&gt;

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