VDP Triage Agent
Every report from your VDP or bug-bounty queue is parsed, deduplicated, and reproduced by an autonomous agent, not a junior analyst. Spam dies on contact. Real bugs land in your tracker with the exact PoC, severity and reproduction steps your engineers need to fix them.
FIELD CONDITIONS
Most VDP and bounty queues are 80% spam, 15% duplicates, 5% signal. The cost is not the bounty, it is the senior engineer hours spent reading reports written by drive-by submitters. The Triage Agent reads them first, reproduces them, and only escalates the ones that move.
CAPABILITY
Free-text reports, video PoCs, attached requests, broken English, the agent normalises them into structured findings: type, target, payload, asserted impact. Reports missing reproducible signal are flagged immediately.
Every report is hashed against the full history, same root cause, same endpoint, same payload class, even if the wording is different. Duplicates close themselves with a polite, branded reply.
The agent attempts the exploit autonomously inside a sandbox. Confirmed bugs land in Jira / Linear with a runnable PoC, severity, and the right component owner already assigned.
In practice
Most VDP programmes burn 5-10 hours a week of senior security time on triage. The agent gives that back. Your humans only see findings the agent has already reproduced.
Honest researchers love fast, fair, deterministic triage. The agent's median time-to-verdict is minutes, not days, and the dedupe logic is auditable, so legitimate findings get paid quickly and fairly.
Most teams keep VDP scope narrow because they cannot afford the noise. With autonomous triage, you can take the full firehose, and only see what survives reproduction.
Once a finding is reproduced, the PoC becomes a permanent test. Future deploys are checked against the same payload, so the same class of bug cannot ship twice.
Next
Median reduction in tickets reaching a human triage analyst across VDP and bounty programmes wired through the agent. The remaining 6% is what should have always landed there in the first place.