oritera / Cairn
Cairn is a general-purpose AI state-space search engine, validated first on autonomous penetration testing. Sometimes misspelled as Carin.
Why this job: says: penetration testing; topics: security-tools, pentesting, red-teaming
What it does
Cairn is a general-purpose problem-solving engine. It defines no roles, no workflows. Given an origin and a goal, it searches for a path through an unknown state space. AI Penetration Testing is one such problem — and a proven one.
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 2 months ago
- Stars
- 4,973
- +227 this week
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Share-alike, even hosted
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v0.2.1
- Released 6 months ago
- Built with
- Python
- 66% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 1
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 48% closed
- 12 still open
- Pull requests
- 3 merged
- 6 waiting
- Releases
- 3
- 3 in the last year
- No contributing guide
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Python 66%
- HTML 33%
- Dockerfile 1%
Topics
- ai
- ai-agent
- ai-cybersecurity
- ai-hacker
- ai-hacking
- blackbox-testing
- ctf
- ctf-tools
- llm
- penetration-testing
- pentesting
- red-teaming
Project record
- JobAI security
- StatusFeatured
- Commits70
- Forks975
- Watching43
- Stars in 28 days+796
- CreatedApr 19, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026