Deadend CLI
Shares rank 3 of 5 pentest tools by recommenders
Open-source, self-hosted pentest CLI that runs locally with no cloud dependency and is easy to set up and try against any target.
Open-source, self-hosted pentest CLI that runs locally with no cloud dependency and is easy to set up and try against any target.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Easy to set up and test
“it testable out of the box, on any target”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Deadend CLI – Open-source self-hosted agentic pentest tooling” “Very easy to setup and try locally”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Deadend CLI – Open-source self-hosted agentic pentest tooling” Looks promising to testers
“sounds nice! looking forward to test it against our webapp”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Deadend CLI – Open-source self-hosted agentic pentest tooling” “Looks good will test it out tomorrow”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Deadend CLI – Open-source self-hosted agentic pentest tooling” “This looks promising, well done!”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Deadend CLI – Open-source self-hosted agentic pentest tooling”
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burp Suite | 9 | 1 | 90% | 6 | — | — |
| Strix | 9 | 6 | 60% | 4 | — | — |
| Deadend CLIThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
| SmokedMeat | 6 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
| ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) | 5 | 1 | 83% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
All 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Looks good will test it out tomorrow”
“Very easy to setup and try locally”
“it testable out of the box, on any target”
“sounds nice! looking forward to test it against our webapp”
“finally something that actually runs locally with no cloud dependency”
“This looks promising, well done!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.