pentest-agent-scope

To validate penetration testing scope, you can parse JSON or plain-text scope files to identify in-scope targets, out-of-scope exclusions, and prohibited testing methods before any active assessment begins. This ensures strict adherence to engagement rules.

Passive pre-execution validation for security targets is the process of checking planned testing activities against defined rate limits, testing windows, and authorization requirements without sending active traffic to the target.

You enforce compliance with rate limits and testing windows by applying automated policy enforcement to your parsed scope definitions, ensuring all planned security activities comply with the engagement's rules of engagement.

Yes, you can parse plain-text scope files to identify out-of-scope exclusions. The validation framework deterministically extracts in-scope targets, out-of-scope exclusions, and prohibited testing methods from the provided text.

Scope validation prevents unauthorized security testing by providing a rigorous, automated framework that checks targets and planned methods against defined rules of engagement before any active assessment execution begins.

A scope.json file for target validation should define in-scope targets, out-of-scope exclusions, rate limits, testing windows, and method-policy definitions to satisfy the parsing and validation requirements of the framework.