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Crypto projects apply for Anthropic’s new frontier AI security scanner

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Anthropic launched OSS Scanner, an opt-in service for open-source projects that uses its strongest AI models to generate vulnerability reports without prior human review. Nethermind, ZEUS, and VirtEngine submitted enrollment requests as the service became available, and Anthropic said the reports may include incorrect, duplicated, or overstated findings.

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Anthropic described the service as a new frontier AI security scanner for crypto projects and said it is opt-in.
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Anthropic launched OSS Scanner as an opt-in service for open-source projects that produces vulnerability reports from its strongest AI models without prior human review.
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Nethermind, ZEUS, and VirtEngine submitted enrollment requests after the service launched.
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OSS Scanner uses Claude Mythos and other advanced models to generate periodic reports, while maintainers remain responsible for validating and triaging the findings.

What it means

Open-source project maintainers are the first people who have to deal with these reports, because the scanner sends them findings that still need validation and triage. That means teams watching tomorrow morning will see more automated vulnerability reports in their inboxes, but the final review step stays with the maintainers rather than the model.

In practice, the new service adds an automated reporting layer where there was not one before, and it does so without prior human review. What remains unchanged is that the findings are not automatically accepted as final, since Anthropic says they can be incorrect, duplicated, or overstated and still need human checking.

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