🛡️ ShieldCI

AI-powered automated penetration testing for your CI pipeline.

ShieldCI scans your application for real security vulnerabilities using offensive security tools — orchestrated by a local LLM that never sees your code leave your machine.

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Why Local-First?

ShieldCI runs entirely on your machine — the engine, the LLM, and all security tooling. This is a deliberate design choice:

Principle	What it means
🔒 Your code never leaves your network	No source code is uploaded to any third-party server. The LLM (Ollama) runs locally, scans happen inside a Docker container, and results stay on disk.
🛑 Zero data leakage risk	Unlike cloud-based security scanners, there is no API that receives your codebase. This matters for proprietary, enterprise, and pre-release code.
⚙️ Full control	You choose the model, the tools, and the scan depth. Nothing phones home.

Future: Hosted option for open-source repos

We plan to offer an optional hosted version for projects that don't need code confidentiality (e.g. open-source repositories). The local-first mode will always remain the default for private codebases.

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Architecture

Pipeline flow:

1. Read config — parse shieldci.yml for endpoints, build commands, database info
2. Build & launch — install deps, start the target app in a sandbox
3. Generate test plan — dynamic multi-phase plan based on config + codebase analysis
4. Execute tools — fire offensive security tools via MCP (JSON-RPC over stdio) through a Kali container
5. LLM adaptive strikes — the LLM reviews scan results and picks follow-up targeted attacks
6. Generate report — Markdown report with vulnerable code snippets and exact fix suggestions
7. Push results — optionally send structured JSON to the ShieldCI dashboard

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Prerequisites

Requirement	Version	Notes
Rust	1.77+	curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
Docker Desktop	Latest	Must be running
Ollama	Latest	ollama pull llama3.1

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Quick Start

Option A — Native (recommended for development)

# 1. Build the Rust orchestrator
cargo build --release
# 2. Build the Kali MCP Docker image
docker build -t shieldci-kali-image .# 3. Add a shieldci.yml to your target repo (see Configuration below)# 4. Run ShieldCI from your target repo directory
/path/to/shield-ci

Option B — All-in-One Container

Run everything in a single container — Rust orchestrator, Kali tools, and Python MCP server. Only Ollama runs on the host.

# Make sure Ollama is running on the host
ollama serve &# Launch with Docker Compose (one command)
docker compose up --build

Or build and run manually:

docker build -f Dockerfile.allinone -t shieldci-allinone .
docker run --rm \
--network host \
-v /path/to/your/target-repo:/workspace \
-e OLLAMA_HOST=http://host.docker.internal:11434 \
shieldci-allinone

Run against the included test app

cd tests
npm install
cd ..
# Native
cargo run --release
# Or with Docker Compose (mounts ./tests automatically)
docker compose up --build

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Configuration — shieldci.yml

Place a shieldci.yml in the root of the repository you want to scan. This tells ShieldCI how to build, run, and attack your app.

Full Schema

# ── Project metadata ──project:
name: "my-app"framework: "Node.js"language: "javascript"# ── Build & Run ──build:
command: "npm install"run: "node app.js"port: 3000# ── API Endpoints ──endpoints:
- path: "/"method: "GET"description: "Health check"
- path: "/login"method: "GET"params:
- name: "username"type: "string"description: "User login name"description: "User login endpoint - queries database"
- path: "/api/search"method: "GET"params:
- name: "query"type: "string"description: "Search term"description: "Search endpoint"
- path: "/api/users"method: "POST"params:
- name: "name"type: "string"
- name: "email"type: "string"
- name: "password"type: "string"description: "User registration"# ── Database ──database:
type: "sqlite"orm: false # false = raw SQL queries → HIGH RISK flag# ── Authentication ──auth:
enabled: false# ── Key source files ──files:
- "app.js"
- "routes/auth.js"

Schema Reference

Section	Field	Type	Required	Description
project	name	string	no	Project name
project	framework	string	no	Framework (Node.js, Python, Rust, etc.)
project	language	string	no	Primary language
build	command	string	no	Build/install command
build	run	string	no	Command to start the app
build	port	integer	no	Port the app listens on (default: 3000)
endpoints[]	path	string	yes	URL path (e.g. /login)
endpoints[]	method	string	no	HTTP method (default: GET)
endpoints[]	description	string	no	What this endpoint does
endpoints[].params[]	name	string	yes	Parameter name
endpoints[].params[]	type	string	no	Parameter type (string, integer, etc.)
endpoints[].params[]	description	string	no	What this parameter is for
database	type	string	no	Database engine
database	orm	boolean	no	true = ORM, false = raw SQL (triggers extra SQLi tests)
auth	enabled	boolean	no	Whether the app uses authentication
files	—	string[]	no	Key source files to focus analysis on

How It Drives Testing

• Endpoints with params → automatically generate sqlmap_scan attack URLs
• database.orm: false → flags raw SQL usage, prioritizes SQLi testing on all param endpoints
• Param names like username, password, search, query, id, email → auto-targeted for injection
• build.port → used to construct the target URL
• If no shieldci.yml exists, ShieldCI falls back to auto-detection via run.sh

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Test Phases

ShieldCI runs a dynamic multi-phase test plan:

Phase	Tool	What It Does
🔍 RECON	nmap_scan	Port scan to discover services
🔍 RECON	check_headers	Check for missing security headers (CSP, X-Frame-Options, etc.)
🕷️ VULN SCAN	nikto_scan	Scan for known web server vulnerabilities
📂 DISCOVERY	gobuster_scan	Brute-force hidden directories and files
🗡️ SQLi	sqlmap_scan	SQL injection testing on each endpoint with params
🧠 ADAPTIVE	LLM-guided	LLM analyzes all results and picks additional targeted attacks

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Output

ShieldCI generates two files in the target repo:

File	Format	Purpose
SHIELD_REPORT.md	Markdown	Human-readable report
shield_results.json	JSON	Structured data for dashboard ingestion

SHIELD_REPORT.md includes:

• Executive summary of findings
• Scan results per tool with severity ratings
• Vulnerable code snippets — exact lines from your source
• Recommended fixes — corrected code with explanations
• Security header and configuration findings
• Actionable recommendations prioritized by severity

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Frontend — ShieldCI Dashboard

The companion dashboard is at Zenith1415/Shield-CI — a Next.js app that visualizes scan results, tracks vulnerabilities, and manages connected repos.

Connecting Engine → Dashboard

1. Clone and run the dashboard (see its README for setup)
2. Set three env vars before running ShieldCI (or add them to your CI secrets):

export SHIELDCI_API_URL=http://localhost:3000 # dashboard URLexport SHIELDCI_API_KEY=your-secret-key # matches the dashboard's keyexport SHIELDCI_REPO=owner/repo # e.g. Akshat-Raj/ShieldCI

3. After a scan completes, push the results:

python3 push_results.py

In CI, this happens automatically via the GitHub Actions workflow — no manual step needed.

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Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
OLLAMA_HOST	http://localhost:11434	Ollama API endpoint
SHIELDCI_LOCAL_TOOLS	0	Set to 1 to run MCP tools natively (no Docker)
SHIELDCI_MCP_CMD	python3 kali_mcp.py	Custom MCP server command
SHIELDCI_API_URL	—	Dashboard API URL for result push
SHIELDCI_API_KEY	—	Dashboard API key
SHIELDCI_REPO	—	Repository identifier for dashboard

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CI / GitHub Actions

ShieldCI includes a GitHub Actions workflow for automated scanning on every push. It uses a self-hosted runner to keep code local:

# .github/workflows/shieldci.yml triggers on:on:
workflow_dispatch: # Manual triggerpush:
branches: [main]

Setup:

1. Add a self-hosted runner to your repo (Settings → Actions → Runners)
2. Add SHIELDCI_API_KEY to repo secrets
3. Ensure Docker + Ollama are running on the runner machine
4. Push to main or trigger manually

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Project Structure

ShieldCI/
├── src/main.rs # Rust orchestrator — the brain
├── kali_mcp.py # Python MCP tool server (runs inside Kali container)
├── Cargo.toml # Rust dependencies
├── Dockerfile # Kali Linux container with security tools
├── Dockerfile.allinone # All-in-one container (Rust + Kali + Python + Node)
├── docker-compose.yml # One-command launch
├── entrypoint_allinone.sh # All-in-one container entrypoint
├── push_results.py # Push structured results to dashboard API
├── run.sh # Auto-detection fallback script
├── detector.sh # Full repo profiler
├── .github/workflows/
│ └── shieldci.yml # GitHub Actions workflow (self-hosted runner)
├── docs/
│ └── architecture.svg # Architecture diagram
└── tests/
├── app.js # Intentionally vulnerable Express.js app (12 vuln types)
├── shieldci.yml # Example configuration
├── package.json # Test app dependencies
└── public/
├── index.html # Test page for discovery scans
└── .env # Decoy sensitive file for gobuster

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Test App — 12 Intentional Vulnerabilities

The included tests/app.js is an intentionally vulnerable Express.js application for testing ShieldCI's detection capabilities:

#	Vulnerability	CWE	Endpoint
1	SQL Injection (login)	CWE-89	GET /login?username=
2	SQL Injection (search)	CWE-89	GET /api/search?query=
3	Reflected XSS	CWE-79	GET /search?q=
4	Command Injection	CWE-78	GET /ping?host=
5	Path Traversal / LFI	CWE-22	GET /file?name=
6	IDOR	CWE-639	GET /api/users/:id
7	SSRF	CWE-918	GET /api/fetch?url=
8	Open Redirect	CWE-601	GET /redirect?url=
9	Sensitive Data Exposure	CWE-200	GET /debug
10	Mass Assignment	CWE-915	POST /api/users
11	Missing Auth on Admin	CWE-306	GET /api/secrets
12	Missing Security Headers	CWE-693	All responses

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License

Apache 2.0