pensarai/apex: Autonomous Offensive-Security Agents That Run Pentests Directly in Your Terminal

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pensarai/apex (~282 stars, early-stage) is a TypeScript tool that uses autonomous agents to perform AI-powered offensive security testing from the terminal, built on the AI SDK with Anthropic models. It represents the attacker side of this cycle's agent-security theme — pairing naturally with the defensive runtime-governance repos also trending this week. The early traction suggests demand for agentic pentest tooling that operates in a developer's normal CLI workflow.