Trail of Bits Releases Two Plugins to Catch Regressions in AI-Written Security Patches

Trail of Bits has released two plugins, patching-bugs and regression-hunt, that let engineers hand security patch work to AI agents with built-in checks for the bugs those agents can introduce. They come from the company's Patch the Planet initiative with OpenAI. In preliminary tests, regression-hunt produced 25% fewer false positives than a baseline Codex agent.

How well does regression-hunt reduce false positives?

How many regressions did Trail of Bits find in AI-written patches?

What do the patching-bugs and regression-hunt plugins do?

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