AgentsAugust 27, 2026via SiliconAngle
Sonar launches Hunter Agent to find flaws code scanners can’t see
Why it matters
An autonomous agent deployed into the development workflow to catch semantic vulnerabilities (authorization bypasses, business logic flaws) that pattern-based SAST tools can't see. This shifts security scanning from rule-matching to reasoning—a meaningful category upgrade for practitioners vetting code in production.
Key signals
- SonarSource releases SonarQube Hunter Agent
- Agent targets vulnerabilities pattern-based scanning cannot detect
- Focuses on logic flaws: unauthorized data access, broken checkout flows
- AI-driven verification positioned as complement to traditional SAST
- Agent-based deployment into code governance workflow
The hook
SonarSource ships an AI agent that finds logic flaws traditional scanners miss—the kind where code does exactly what it was written to do, just wrong.
Artificial intelligence code verification and governance company SonarSource Sàrl today released SonarQube Hunter Agent, an AI agent built to find security flaws that pattern-based scanning cannot see. The vulnerabilities it targets are the ones where the code does exactly what it was written to do.…