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OSS-CRS makes AIxCC reasoning systems runnable locally; OpenSSF adopts it as a sandbox project

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Researchers led by Georgia Tech released OSS-CRS, a locally deployable framework for running and combining AIxCC cyber reasoning systems, noting that all seven open-sourced finalist systems depended on competition cloud infrastructure that no longer exists. Porting the winning Atlantis system, they found 10 previously unknown bugs (three high severity) in 8 OSS-Fuzz projects; OpenSSF welcomed OSS-CRS into its AI/ML Security Working Group in April 2026.

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It addresses the gap between open-sourcing competition systems and making them usable by maintainers.

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  • All seven open-sourced AIxCC CRSs remained largely unusable outside their teams because they depended on the retired competition cloud.arXiv abstract
  • Running ported Atlantis found 10 previously unknown bugs, three high severity, across 8 OSS-Fuzz projects.arXiv abstract
  • OpenSSF reports Team Atlanta found 25 vulnerabilities across 16 open-source projects, and that manual review of 630 AI-generated patches found 20-40% semantically incorrect despite passing automated validation.OpenSSF blog post

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