What is Agentic scanning? Definition and why it matters
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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.

Source page: https://agentsast.com/glossary/agentic-scanning/
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Last reviewed: 2026-09-13