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AI Code Security Analysis Enterprise Codebases

Agentic AI Platform That Transforms Source Code Into Verified Security Intelligence

Client

Confidential cybersecurity vendor

Headquarters

United States

Timeline

Active development

Technology

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AI Code Security Analysis Platform case study by EdgeFirm

Fewer edge-case failures in client testing

Reduced false positives via runtime validation

Scales across multi-service enterprise codebases

At a glance

The challenge

Diverse enterprise architectures made traditional security analysis brittle, inconsistent, and unreliable at scale

The solution

Agent-driven workflows with graph-based system modeling, runtime validation, and adaptive failure handling

The results

  • Fewer edge-case failures in client testing
  • Reduced false positives via runtime validation
  • Scales across multi-service enterprise codebases
The problem

AI Code Security Analysis With Fewer Edge-Case Failures

This agentic platform produced fewer edge-case failures in client testing. Modern enterprises operate large, complex codebases spanning multiple services, frameworks, and authentication models. Traditional security analysis, combining static analysis tools, manual review, and isolated LLM calls, struggles to deliver validated and scalable results across diverse enterprise environments.

This platform enables organizations to ingest their repository (source code and documentation) and automatically transform it into validated security insights with actionable remediation guidance. It moves beyond simple vulnerability detection: identifying system architecture, analysing APIs, validating security findings at runtime, and providing code-level fixes, all orchestrated through intelligent agent workflows built on the Claude Agent SDK.

Scope of work

6 capabilities carried the build

Design and deploy an agent-driven security analysis platform capable of ingesting enterprise repositories and producing validated, actionable security insights. The core challenge was that enterprise codebases vary widely in architecture, authentication patterns, and framework choices. Any hardcoded workflow breaks quickly. The solution required adaptive, agentic execution that could reason about each codebase dynamically.

01

Repository ingestion pipeline with graph-based architecture modelling (Neo4j)

02

Agentic structural analysis engine with MCP-integrated tool access

03

Vulnerability identification covering authentication, privilege escalation, data exposure, and API misuse

04

Runtime validation via Playwright-based API tests and OWASP ZAP integration

05

Adaptive failure-handling loop for automatic test refinement

06

Actionable remediation reports with code-level fixes and configuration guidance

Technology

The stack behind it

Claude Agent SDK, TypeScript, NestJS, Neo4j, Playwright

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AI Orchestration

Claude Agent SDK (Anthropic) with MCP-based tool integrations

Graph Database

Neo4j for graph-based system modelling and contextual architectural reasoning

Workflow Orchestration

Temporal for distributed, durable workflow execution across analysis phases

Runtime Validation

Playwright for automated API test execution; OWASP ZAP for runtime security verification

Backend

NestJS (TypeScript) for backend services and API layer

Frontend

React dashboard for workflow interface and vulnerability reporting

Infrastructure

Dockerized execution environments for safe, isolated analysis runs

How we built it

Our development process

Repository Ingestion and System Modeling

The platform identifies services, modules, and architectural components, extracts API endpoints across frameworks, and correlates documentation context with actual code behaviour. A graph-based architecture powered by Neo4j models the entire application surface, linking services, APIs, authentication mechanisms, and vulnerabilities, giving the agent a full picture of the system before analysis begins.

Agent-Driven Structural Analysis

Rather than relying on hardcoded workflow branches, the platform uses agentic execution to dynamically identify application structure, infer authentication and authorization mechanisms, and understand API workflows and dependency chains. The agent uses controlled tool access including MCP-integrated tools to read, reason, edit, and validate code context safely within execution boundaries, which reduced edge-case failures across different enterprise patterns in client testing.

“EdgeFirm fundamentally changed how we think about security analysis. Their agentic platform found vulnerabilities, modeled our system architecture, validated findings at runtime, and delivered code-level fixes. The reduction in false positives alone justified the investment.”
After launch

What changed after launch

Fewer Edge-Case Failures

Adaptive agentic workflows replaced brittle sequential LLM pipelines. The client's own tests showed fewer failures caused by architectural variation across enterprise codebases.

Fewer False Positives

Runtime validation via Playwright and ZAP ensures only exploitable vulnerabilities surface. Engineering teams act on real threats, not theoretical findings.

Consistent Cross-Architecture Analysis

The platform handles diverse authentication models, framework choices, and service architectures without requiring manual workflow customization per client.

Evidence-Backed Remediation

Every validated vulnerability is paired with code-level fixes, configuration guidance, and authorization hardening recommendations, shortening the remediation cycle.

By combining system-level modelling, adaptive agent-driven workflows, and runtime validation, the platform transforms raw source code into verified, actionable security intelligence. The result is a repeatable security process that gives engineering teams clear findings and helps them fix real vulnerabilities, whatever the underlying enterprise architecture.

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