ShieldProbe Continuous Developer Preview

Source-code scanners review every change.
We exploit your app on every change.

Continuous wires the same reasoning engine behind into your CI/CD. Every commit becomes a coverage-aware exploitation run: auth-touch = auth exploitation; UI-only diff = skipped; business-logic change = logic exploitation. Findings post back to the PR with reproducible payloads.

main·github.com/acme/payments-api
Live
4a8f2c1feat(auth): add refresh-token rotation2m ago
ShieldProbe: Scanning auth surface…
b3e4d92fix(api): tighten payment idempotency keys14m ago
ShieldProbe: Blocked · vuln reproducedBUSINESS-LOGIC Negative-amount bypass — exploit reproduced
7c9a0e5chore(ui): update button hover shade28m ago
ShieldProbe: Skipped · UI-only diff
e1d7fa3feat(api): add /v2/users export endpoint42m ago
ShieldProbe: Passed · no vulns
9b24ce8refactor(db): move session store to Redis1h ago
ShieldProbe: Passed · no vulns
The category mistake

Continuous is not shift-left SAST with extra steps.

Every SAST tool on the market reads your source code and matches it against known bad patterns. Continuous does the opposite: it runs a live exploitation campaign against your running app and validates what an attacker could actually do.

SAST (Checkmarx, SonarQube, Snyk Code)
  • Input: your source code
  • Mechanism: static pattern matching against rule libraries
  • Output: alerts about code that looks dangerous
  • False positives: 30–60% industry baseline
  • Business logic: invisible — no runtime semantics
  • Compliance: helpful signal, not audit-grade evidence
Continuous
  • Input: the deployed app + the diff
  • Mechanism: real exploitation runs, the same reasoning engine as Assess
  • Output: reproducible exploits — requests, responses, payloads
  • False positives: low by construction (a proof-of-exploit is the evidence)
  • Business logic: in scope — negative-amount transfers, auth bypass, IDOR
  • Compliance: CREST-validated evidence on every run

How change-awareness actually works

Not every commit deserves a full pentest. Continuous scopes the run to the diff.

UI / stylingbutton.css — change hover shade
Skipped · no attack surface touched
Business logiccontrollers/transfer.ts — amount validation
Logic exploitation suite: negative values, overflow, type confusion, currency rounding
Auth surfacemiddleware/session.ts — refresh-token rotation
Auth exploitation suite: JWT alg confusion, session fixation, cookie flags, replay
API contractroutes/v2/users.ts — new export endpoint
API suite: BOLA, IDOR, mass assignment, rate-limit evasion, adjacent-endpoint regression
Infrastructureterraform/rds.tf — subnet group change
Cross-layer replay — re-runs previous exploit chain against new topology
shieldprobe-continuous.log
11:08:42PUSHorigin/feature/auth-refactor· 3 files changed
11:08:43SCOPINGAuth middleware touched · running authentication exploitation suite
11:09:18EXPLOITPOST/api/sessionJWT none-alg bypass succeeded
11:09:21REPORTPR #284 blocked· finding posted to reviewer· 39s total

Where Continuous plugs in today

Honest status per integration. Developer preview means some surfaces are live, some are not.

Source control

Live GitHub — webhook on push / PR / merge
Live Azure DevOps — pipeline task + PR decoration
Roadmap GitLab · Bitbucket

Deploy platforms (PLG)

Live Vercel · Netlify
Live Supabase · Appwrite
Beta Base44 · Lovable

Change management

Roadmap ServiceNow — infra-side change triggers
Roadmap Jira — ticket-level triggers
Live Slack — findings posted to channel

Evidence output

Live SARIF — ingest into GitHub Code Scanning
Live JSON — API-driven downstream routing
Live PDF — audit-grade report per run

Noise, blocking, and who unblocks

Continuous is in your deploy path. Here's exactly how it behaves when it finds something — and when it doesn't.

What happens when Continuous finds a real exploit?

The PR is marked failing with the reproducible exploit (request, response, payload) in the PR comment. Defend can auto-apply a GCE the same minute, so your running app is protected while the dev team reviews. Merge is blocked by your branch protection rules — nothing is auto-merged or auto-reverted.

Who can override a block?

Whoever your branch protection rules say. Continuous posts a check status; override follows the same path as any other failed check. Overrides are logged with the actor and reason, exported to SARIF and the audit log.

False positives?

A finding without a reproducible payload doesn't ship as a block. The exploit itself is the evidence. If the agent can't prove the vuln with a concrete request/response pair, it's filed as a hypothesis for review — not a blocker.

How long does a run take?

Skipped runs: 0 s. Deterministic replay of previously-exploited paths: ≤30 s. Fresh-reasoning runs on a new auth or business-logic surface: 1–4 minutes, bounded by the coverage budget you configure.

Scope controls you actually have

No black box. Configure what runs where.

Route exclusions

Exclude specific paths, query shapes, or subdomains. Your staging /health endpoint doesn't need exploitation on every commit.

Branch scoping

Run Continuous only on main and release branches, or on every feature branch. Your call.

Coverage budget

Set a per-run budget in minutes. Continuous prioritizes the highest-risk surface first and stops when the budget is hit.

Severity gating

Block on Critical and High; report-only on Medium and below. Or any other threshold your risk policy wants.

When Continuous earns its keep

High-velocity engineering

Teams shipping 40× a day can't wait 90 days for a pentest. Continuous covers every deploy between quarterly Assess runs.

PCI DSS 4.0.1 quarterly cadence

The regulation requires quarterly pentest. Traditional consultancies can't deliver at that cadence; Continuous delivers on every change.

Auth & payment flows

Highest-risk code paths — auth, billing, money movement — get the most attention from the coverage-aware scope selection.

Post-incident hardening

After a breach, "show me it can't happen again" is continuous, not quarterly. Every commit produces evidence the exact finding stays closed.

Developer preview
Continuous is in developer preview.
GitHub + Azure DevOps, SARIF + PDF, Slack + email are live.
GitLab, ServiceNow, Jira triggers, and our PLG dashboard are weeks out, not months.

Early-access customers get the full Assess + Defend + Fix loop today, with Continuous wired in for supported source-control surfaces. Ask us which ones cover your stack.

Wire exploitation into your CI/CD

Continuous closes the loop on , , and . Audit-grade exploitation on every commit, coverage-aware, evidence-first.