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How Effectively Do Security Skills Guide Coding Agents in Vulnerability Detection in Linux Kernel?

Haoran Xue, Nikta Akbarpour, Gias Uddin, Song Wang · 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2610.25705 · cited by 0 works (OpenAlex) · open-access PDF

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बड़े संभावित कमजोरियों (एलएलएम) कोड एजेंट, जैसे कि क्लाउड कोड, सुरक्षा ऑडिशन के लिए तेजी से उपयोग किए जाते हैं, जिसमें कार्य विशिष्ट कौशल हैं जो बार-बार इस्तेमाल किया जा सकता है कमजोरियों का विश्लेषण प्रक्रियाएं प्रदान करते हैं। हालांकि, वास्तविक कमजोरियों की पहचान में उनकी प्रभावशीलता और उनकी विफलताओं के कारणों को स्पष्ट नहीं रहते हैं। हम क्लाउड कोड के साथ चार आधारित एलएलएम के साथ 37 सुरक्षा कौशल का पहला बड़े पैमाने पर अनुभवी अध्ययन करते हैं, दस वर्गों में 100 वास्तविक लिनक्स कोर कमजोरियों को सही ढंग से वर्गीकृत करते हैं, कुल मिलाकर 14800 चलाते हैं। हम फ़ंक्शन, बयान, और कमजोरियों के वर्ग के स्तर पर कमजोरियों की पहचान

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Abstract

Large language model (LLM) coding agents, such as Claude Code, are increasingly used for security auditing, with task-specific skills providing reusable vulnerability-analysis procedures. However, their effectiveness in detecting real vulnerabilities and the reasons for their failures remain unclear. We conduct the first large-scale empirical study of 37 security skills using Claude Code with four underlying LLMs on 100 real Linux kernel vulnerabilities across ten classes, totaling 14800 runs. We evaluate vulnerability detection at the function, statement, and vulnerability-class levels. Results show that 24.4 percent of runs locate the correct function, 18.3 percent identify both the function and responsible statement, and 15.7 percent correctly classify the vulnerability. Our failure analysis reveals limitations in evidence acquisition, state-relation reasoning, code interpretation, candidate verification, investigation coverage, and reporting. Based on these findings, we propose SKILL-SIF, a self-improving framework that iteratively evolves security skills by learning from missed vulnerabilities and failure patterns. We evolve five top-performing skills using the original benchmark and evaluate them on 100 previously unseen vulnerabilities. SKILL-SIF improves fully correct vulnerability detection by up to eight times (from 2 percent to 16 percent) on unseen vulnerabilities, while aggregate accuracy across four LLMs increases by 1.85 times (from 6.05 percent to 11.20 percent). These findings highlight the limitations of existing security skills and demonstrate the potential of failure-driven skill evolution to improve vulnerability detection in coding agents.

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Topics: Computer science, Vulnerability (computing), Coding (social sciences), Benchmark (surveying), Computer security, Secure coding

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