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A AI general-purpose state-space search engine, validated first on autonomous penetration testing.

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Solve complex problems by searching for solutions in unknown spaces, like cybersecurity challenges.

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A AI general-purpose state-space search engine, validated first on autonomous penetration testing.

Cairn has 2.4k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 332 times. Cairn is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2026. Cairn is available under the AGPL-3.0 license. Its main topics are ai, ai-agent, ai-cybersecurity, ai-hacker.

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A AI general-purpose state-space search engine, validated first on autonomous penetration testing.

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Cairn is an open-source project. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 license.

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Yes. Cairn is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it. Its AGPL-3.0 license is a strong copyleft: if you distribute a modified version — including offering it as a network service — your changes must be released under the same license.

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Cairn is available under the AGPL-3.0 license.

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Cairn is written mainly in Python.

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