What happens when you give an AI agent security skills instead of another coding task?

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作者实验了给 Hermes Agent 安装官方 domain-intel 技能，对 example.com 执行受限的被动侦察任务，包括子域名发现、SSL/TLS 证书透明度检查、WHOIS 与 DNS 溯源，并探讨了对 AI 安全分析结论的信任度问题。

I've been experimenting with Hermes Agent and wanted to test something different from the usual "give the agent a coding task and see what it builds" workflow. I installed its official domain-intel skill and gave it a tightly scoped passive-recon task against example.com. The experiment covered: subdomain discovery through Certificate Transparency SSL/TLS inspection WHOIS DNS source attribution handling failed lookups One interesting part was that the first subdomain lookup failed. Hermes didn't just ignore it — it recognized the failure, retried the operation, and continued with the investigation. The final report also separated observations from higher-level interpretation. The part I'm still cautious about is the last mile: how much should we trust an agent's interpretation of security data without independently verifying it? Curious how others are approaching security workflows with AI agents.
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