A useful security comparison starts with the work your team needs to finish. Finding a vulnerable package, reproducing an attack path, preparing a code change and deploying an operating-system update are different jobs. A single score can hide those differences.
The agent workflowFrom a question
From a question
to a reviewable change.
Six handoffs explain the work. Choose a stage to inspect its purpose and output.
Stage 01 / A bounded assignment
Which repository, revision and actions are in bounds?
An agent needs a concrete job and the environment to do it. Repository access, test permissions and the intended result define the work.
- Repository and revision
- Permitted tools
- Review boundaries
This is a workflow explanation. It is not a replay of a completed customer scan or a measured product comparison.
Start with the job
Write down the decision you need to make before choosing a tool. If you own the application, you may need a reviewable change and a test of the behavior it addresses. If you operate software another vendor maintains, the job may instead be deploying an available update and confirming the affected systems received it.
The handoff matters as much as the finding. Ask which work the product completes, which work another system performs, and which decisions stay with your team. A good fit can include a human approval step. What matters is that the boundary is explicit.
Follow the seven handoffs
- Find: identify a relevant issue in the repository or environment.
- Understand: explain the reachable behavior and the assumptions behind it.
- Prioritize: distinguish what requires action from what can wait.
- Propose a fix: produce a change someone can inspect.
- Deploy: identify who approves, merges and releases it.
- Retest: exercise the relevant behavior against the proposed change.
- Retain evidence: keep the revision, test scope and outcome together.
Use these stages as questions, not as a demand that every product own every step. A focused scanner can be a useful part of a workflow. An endpoint patching system can be a good fit for deployed software without being an application-code repair tool.
The handoffs between stages
The source model follows handoffs across a repair workflow. Its marks are research classifications, and Cefense appears as a design profile. Use the diagram to ask where your team takes over.
Archived research. Cefense profiles describe design intent, not a measured run.
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The shape of application security coverage
The shape of a profile depends on the job and the source rubric. These are archived assessments, not measured current capability or product quality.
Archived research. Cefense profiles describe design intent, not a measured run.
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Read the research as a model
The November 5, 2026 source analysis contains 514 tool profiles and 70 diagrams. Its full, partial and no-credit classifications are the original author’s judgments. They are not independent lab results, and no credit is not proof that a vendor lacks a feature. Product editions, configuration, integrations and supported environments can change the answer.
Our fit check makes those assumptions visible. You can choose priorities, narrow the security domain and compare a profile stage by stage. Cefense’s profile is labelled as design intent. Measured scanner results remain a separate record with their own cases and limits.
Compare the work behind the categories
A market map can group products by the work they address without establishing a winner. A family tree reflects the features and weights the author chose. It does not create a new product category or demonstrate that a neighbouring product lacks a capability.
Related tools, grouped by coverage
The source groups related workflow profiles. Cefense’s design sits near established application-security products; the grouping is an interpretation of this source model.
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Handoffs across different categories
Follow the transitions between stages to see where the source assigns work to another tool or to the team. The classifications have not been independently validated against each current product edition.
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Stage-by-stage coverage within each group
Different groups address different jobs. Counts describe the 514 profiles in the archived model, not an independently tested estimate of market coverage.
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Test the assumptions behind a score
Changing the weights tests sensitivity to a scoring model. It does not turn assumed stage credit into measured performance. A simulated lead remains conditional on the original classifications, the selected competitors and the weighting procedure.
Sensitivity to alternative scoring weights
The source explores alternative scoring weights. This is a simulation of its own rubric, with Cefense represented by design intent. It is not a series of independent product trials.
Archived research. Cefense profiles describe design intent, not a measured run.
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Choose the benchmark for the question
Finding an issue, reproducing it, repairing it and preserving legitimate behavior need different tests. Inspect the task, environment, sample, grading and publication date before treating two percentages as comparable.
Published benchmark references in the source
Published benchmark references in the source archive cover different questions. The view does not publish Cefense performance on these protocols.
Archived research. Cefense profiles describe design intent, not a measured run.
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Six dimensions of the source's benchmark assessment
The source assesses benchmarks along six dimensions. These are the author’s quality judgments, not a product leaderboard or a Cefense result.
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Explore all 50 benchmark profiles and their stage coverage
The benchmark libraryDifferent tests.
Different tests.
Different questions.
All 50 benchmark profiles from the November 5 research archive. Use the stage map to understand which part of a security workflow each test is designed to examine.
Cefense
Our recorded development results appear first in the measured report. The library below describes external protocols; a Cefense result on one protocol cannot be transferred to another.
Open Cefense’s measured evidence50 benchmarks
The descriptions and stage marks are the archived author’s assessments. Product performance is not scored here. Code and benchmark availability may have changed since the snapshot.
Source assessment: Closest thing to a full find-prove-fix benchmark that exists
Scope to inspect: Memory-safety C/C++ only; disclosed, already-fixed bugs
01FindIncluded02UnderstandIncluded03PrioritizeUncredited04Propose a fixIncluded05DeployUncredited06RetestIncluded07Retain evidenceUncredited
Cefense on this exact protocol: no comparable result published in this record.
Source assessment: Most rigorous one-time test of autonomous find-and-patch
Scope to inspect: A competition, not a rerunnable leaderboard
01FindIncluded02UnderstandIncluded03PrioritizeUncredited04Propose a fixIncluded05DeployUncredited06RetestIncluded07Retain evidenceUncredited
Cefense on this exact protocol: no comparable result published in this record.
Source assessment: Best web-app lifecycle benchmark; puts dollar values on results
Scope to inspect: Small; detection rates near the floor make ranking noisy
01FindIncluded02UnderstandIncluded03PrioritizeUncredited04Propose a fixIncluded05DeployUncredited06RetestIncluded07Retain evidenceUncredited
Cefense on this exact protocol: no comparable result published in this record.
Source assessment: Scalable and real; good for tracking patch skill
Scope to inspect: Patch passes if it compiles and the PoC stops crashing
01FindUncredited02UnderstandIncluded03PrioritizeUncredited04Propose a fixIncluded05DeployUncredited06RetestIncluded07Retain evidenceUncredited
Cefense on this exact protocol: no comparable result published in this record.
Source assessment: Best design against memorized fixes
Scope to inspect: 22 tasks is too few to separate close systems
01FindIncluded02UnderstandIncluded03PrioritizeUncredited04Propose a fixIncluded05DeployUncredited06RetestIncluded07Retain evidenceUncredited
Cefense on this exact protocol: no comparable result published in this record.
Source assessment: Strictest patch grading published so far
Scope to inspect: Patching only
01FindUncredited02UnderstandIncluded03PrioritizeUncredited04Propose a fixIncluded05DeployUncredited06RetestIncluded07Retain evidenceUncredited
Cefense on this exact protocol: no comparable result published in this record.
Source assessment: The most-cited AI cyber leaderboard
Scope to inspect: Top agent systems now report ~99%; it has little headroom left
01FindUncredited02UnderstandIncluded03PrioritizeUncredited04Propose a fixUncredited05DeployUncredited06RetestUncredited07Retain evidenceUncredited
Cefense on this exact protocol: no comparable result published in this record.
Source assessment: Best independent test for EDR/XDR
Scope to inspect: No ranking; Microsoft, Palo Alto and SentinelOne skipped 2025
01FindIncluded02UnderstandIncluded03PrioritizeUncredited04Propose a fixUncredited05DeployUncredited06RetestUncredited07Retain evidenceUncredited
Cefense on this exact protocol: no comparable result published in this record.
Source assessment: Strong realism for offensive web testing
Scope to inspect: Offense only; nothing about fixing
01FindIncluded02UnderstandIncluded03PrioritizeUncredited04Propose a fixUncredited05DeployUncredited06RetestUncredited07Retain evidenceUncredited
Cefense on this exact protocol: no comparable result published in this record.
Source assessment: Good functional-equivalence checking for patches
Scope to inspect: Fuzzing crashes in C/C++ only
01FindUncredited02UnderstandIncluded03PrioritizeUncredited04Propose a fixIncluded05DeployUncredited06RetestIncluded07Retain evidenceUncredited
Cefense on this exact protocol: no comparable result published in this record.
All 70 diagrams
The complete atlas remains available below, including historical context and evaluation design. Each view retains the source assumptions. Current agent workflow documentation is a separate comparison: specialist agents such as Codex Security also describe patch verification and retained artifacts.
The complete visual archive
Read every diagram, chapter by chapter.
Open a chapter to read its large figures in sequence. All 70 original views remain available. Diagrams load as you approach them.
Current Codex Security documentation also describes patch verification and retained artifacts. Read these archived judgments alongside the current agent capability comparison.
Workflow essentials10 diagrams
The seven stages of a security repair
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Where workflow coverage falls away
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Coverage across the tool landscape
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The handoffs between stages
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The source model's headline comparison
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Stage coverage for application security
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Four questions for a proposed fix
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What a useful evidence record contains
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Two paths from a finding to a reviewed change
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The work between security tools
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The selected profiles15 diagrams
The selected competitors under one model
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A stage-by-stage competitor matrix
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How far the selected profiles extend
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Work the model leaves with your team
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The output at the end of each workflow
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Finding coverage and finishing coverage
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Comparing the jobs tools are designed for
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The shape of application security coverage
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Profiles of the AI repair tools
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How priorities change a ranking
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The contribution of each workflow stage
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What proactive coverage includes
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The selected profiles at each stage
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Related tools, grouped by coverage
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A separate profile for each competitor
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Scoring sensitivity3 diagrams
Sensitivity to alternative scoring weights
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Which weights move the comparison
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Comparing five sets of priorities
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The tool landscape26 diagrams
Stages covered by proactive tool groups
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Full, partial and uncredited stages
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How the source classifies fix verification
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How the source classifies retained evidence
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The overlap of fix, retest and evidence
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Verification within code security
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A view of the source categories
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Handoffs across different categories
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Finding and finishing by category
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Later-stage coverage in the shortlist
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All source profiles in one view
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Breadth and workflow depth
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Workflow coverage by tool group
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Ownership classifications in the source
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Workflow scope and ownership
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Finding, fixing and evidence
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The distribution of workflow profiles
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Stage-by-stage coverage within each group
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How profile classifications change by stage
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Stages that occur together
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Category coverage, with stage totals
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How finishing coverage is distributed
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Breadth and the source model's frontier
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The gap between finding and finishing
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Stage coverage across security areas
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Combining code-security profiles
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Historical context5 diagrams
Acquisition context in the source research
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The source research timeline
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Reporting context cited by the source
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Price and penalty assumptions in the source
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Buyer interests in the source research
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Evaluation design11 diagrams
Published benchmark references in the source
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Which parts of the workflow tests cover
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The source's benchmark assessment
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Realism and grading in the source model
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Workflow stages within benchmark types
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The changing scope of security evaluations
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Product stages and evaluation stages
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A proposed evaluation plan
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Benchmark selection in the source research
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A stage map of the source's benchmark list
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Six dimensions of the source's benchmark assessment
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Define a trial that can fail
- Choose a representative repository and agree on the permitted test scope.
- Record the starting revision and the behavior the tool is expected to detect.
- Inspect the proposed change before approving any repository action.
- Repeat the relevant test against the changed revision and check useful behavior still works.
- Export the evidence and have another reviewer explain what it supports and what it leaves open.
Agree on what would count as a failed evaluation before the trial begins. A confident explanation, a suggested patch and a successful replay are separate pieces of evidence. Treating them separately makes the purchasing decision easier to defend.
Continue with Cefense’s measured benchmark record, the visual evaluation report or the guided fit check. The original research archive, current vendor documentation and measured experiments support different kinds of conclusions.
