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Human-in-the-loop MCP Security Workflow
A stateful MCP workflow for authorized Web/API security analysis, combining LLM-assisted reasoning, human-controlled validation and persistent workflow state.
这是一个面向授权 Web/API 安全分析的 Human-in-the-loop MCP Agent Workflow。项目本体是安全 Workflow:它将一次有授权边界、需要人工判断的安全分析,组织为可持续推进、可记录、可停止的多阶段流程。
Overview
安全分析不是单一步骤任务。授权范围、资产确认、接口映射、验证历史和停止原因都需要在长流程中保持一致。本项目使用 MCP 保存这些结构化状态,并让不同角色在明确边界内协同:
LLM:分析当前状态、组织上下文、提出下一步建议。
MCP Workflow Layer:持久化 session、维护阶段状态,并实现部分 stage gating。
Human Operator:执行真实目标请求、高风险验证、人工重放和最终影响确认。
Security Tools:提供证据或候选线索。
tool output != confirmed finding。工具输出只能进入 Candidate 路径,不能自动成为最终安全结论。
Related MCP server: Security Hunter MCP
Why This Workflow
安全场景天然需要 Human-in-the-loop:操作必须在明确授权范围内,高风险动作不能完全交给模型,工具结果可能误报,多阶段任务容易发生状态漂移,而最终结论需要人工验证。
因此,这个安全 Workflow 同时展示了 Agent Engineering 中常见的工程问题:
multi-stage workflow orchestration;
persistent state management;
Human-in-the-loop;
stage gating;
tool-use boundaries;
evidence verification;
stop conditions。
这些能力不是把安全项目包装成通用 Agent 平台,而是安全分析这一真实业务场景本身对流程设计提出的要求。
End-to-End Workflow
flowchart LR
A[Authorization] --> B[Asset Confirmation]
B --> C[Endpoint Mapping]
C --> D[Hypothesis Selection]
D --> E[Controlled Validation]
E --> F[Result Recording]
F --> G[Report / Closure]
B -. scope uncertainty .-> X[Stop]
E -. sensitive data or instability .-> XAuthorization:记录精确范围与授权依据。
Asset Confirmation:确认资产属于授权范围后再进入接口建图。
Endpoint Mapping:以结构化状态记录关键接口及预期授权行为。
Hypothesis Selection:基于已映射接口选择一个待验证方向。
Controlled Validation:由人工执行基线与受控变化的真实目标操作。
Result Recording:区分 Candidate 和经人工确认的结论。
Report / Closure:保留最小化、脱敏的总结并关闭会话。
流程不包含自动扫描、自动利用或自动攻击链。
Runtime Implementation
当前运行时代码实现了完整 Workflow 规范中的一部分可确定性门槛:
JSON session persistence;
创建 session 时的 authorization checks;
接口记录前必须有 confirmed 且 in-scope 的资产;
至少记录 5 条接口后才能选择 hypothesis;
每个 session 只能选择一个 hypothesis;
每个 hypothesis 最多 2 条 validation;
scanner lead 固定记录为 Candidate;
Confirmed 需要
manual_replay_confirmed和具体 impact description;对敏感非本人数据、服务异常和显式停止执行部分 stop conditions。
The runtime implements only part of the full workflow specification. 它不是完整 policy engine,也没有实现完整的 action-level approval enforcement、自动 re-planning、自动 data governance 或自动 closure engine。
What This Demonstrates for Agent Engineering
这个项目关注安全 Workflow,但其核心挑战与 Agent / MCP 工程直接相关:长流程任务如何保持状态,阶段如何以确定性规则推进,模型建议如何与人工批准协作,工具线索如何被约束为候选而非结论,以及何时应停止而不是继续扩展操作。
安全场景本身要求这些能力,因此该设计具有自然的 Agent Engineering 迁移价值:它不是抽象的通用平台,而是一个在高风险流程中实践状态管理、工作流编排、结构化记录、验证边界和部分运行时约束的项目。
Human-in-the-loop
Human-in-the-loop 在这里是业务安全要求,而不是术语堆砌。
模型不直接决定最终漏洞结论。
扫描或安全工具输出只作为 Candidate。
Confirmed 需要人工重放和具体影响确认。
高风险的真实目标操作保留给人工。
代码会保存调用方提供的人工确认状态,并把它作为流程门槛;它不会独立证明重放已发生,也不会替代人工的授权与影响判断。
Workflow Specification vs Runtime
Capability | Specification | Runtime |
Authorization | 文档定义精确范围、授权依据与人工确认 | 代码检查确认标记及基础输入;不独立验证授权有效性 |
Stage gating | 文档定义按流程推进 | 代码部分实现资产确认、5 接口门槛、单一 hypothesis 和 validation 上限 |
Candidate / Confirmed | 文档定义工具线索与最终结论的区分 | 代码将 scanner lead 记为 Candidate;Confirmed 需要人工重放标记和影响描述 |
Action-level approval | 文档要求人工保留高风险操作 | 尚未完整 runtime enforcement |
Tool-risk policy | 文档和示例策略定义工具边界 | 主要是 specification-level,未完整 runtime enforcement |
Stop conditions | 文档定义边界、敏感数据和异常时停止 | 代码部分实现敏感非本人数据、服务异常、边界停止和强制停止 |
Audit records | 文档要求最小化、脱敏记录 | 代码以 JSON 保存结构化 session 状态;不是防篡改审计系统 |
Data governance | 文档要求脱敏与最小必要记录 | 尚未完整 runtime enforcement |
Closure | 文档定义最小化 recap 与关闭 | 代码可保存关闭结果;不是自动 closure engine |
Architecture
flowchart TB
H[Human Operator] <--> L[Host LLM]
L <--> M[MCP Workflow Layer]
M <--> S[Persistent Session State]
H --> T[Security Tools and Target-side Actions]
T --> HSecurity Tools 由人工使用,结果以脱敏的结构化摘要带回 Workflow。MCP adapter 不直接发送网络请求、启动扫描器、执行 shell 命令或保存原始凭据。
Focused Offline Tests
仓库包含 3 个 focused offline tests,覆盖授权拒绝、五接口与人工重放门槛,以及敏感非本人数据触发停止。测试使用临时 session 目录,不访问网络目标。
Attribution
PentestGPT is a third-party open-source project.
FastMCP / MCP Python SDK are third-party frameworks.
OWASP WSTG is a third-party reference.
This repository focuses on my local security workflow design, MCP state adaptation and workflow constraints.
本仓库不包含、也不声称本人开发 PentestGPT;它不包含 PentestGPT 上游源码或完整 OWASP WSTG 副本。
Limitations
No autonomous scanning.
No automatic exploitation.
Target-side operations remain human-controlled.
Action-level approval is not fully runtime-enforced.
Tool policy is mostly specification-level.
JSON persistence has limited concurrency guarantees.
Human confirmation partly relies on caller-provided state.
This is not a complete autonomous security Agent.
License
Original material in this repository is available under the MIT License. Third-party software remains subject to its own license terms.
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