{
  "slug": "agentic-scanning",
  "term": "Agentic scanning",
  "tools": [
    "zkao",
    "claude-security",
    "codex-security"
  ],
  "definition": "An LLM that plans, reads files, runs tools and tests, and iterates over a codebase, instead of answering one prompt over pasted code.",
  "detail": [
    "Every serious tool on this index is agentic. The differences are in the harness: which tools the agent can run, whether a second wave of agents validates candidates, whether execution provides ground truth, and how much domain knowledge is encoded as skills."
  ],
  "page": "https://agentsast.com/glossary/agentic-scanning/",
  "updated": "2026-09-13"
}