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The community has been quietly building something powerful. I went and found it.
Quick note before we start: I’m not a bug bounty hunter. I research things that catch my attention and write up what I find. Everything in this piece comes from published security research, open-source repositories, community writeups, and documented workflows — all linked. If you’re a hunter who spots something I got wrong, drop it in the comments.
Two months ago, a throwaway line in a security Discord caught my eye:
“ngl claude code found an IDOR nuclei missed completely”
No context. No follow-up. The person moved on. But I couldn’t.
I spent the next two weeks going deep — GitHub repositories, security blogs, published research, community writeups, Semgrep’s empirical evaluation, Wiz’s internal study. I wanted to know: are serious bug bounty hunters actually using Claude Code, and if so, how?
The answer is yes. And the workflow looks nothing like what AI tool marketing suggests.
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