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UID:pretalx-hf2026-KEC9UP@cfp.hackfest.ca
DTSTART;TZID=EST:20261030T094000
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DESCRIPTION:AI agents are arriving in defensive security faster than most t
 eams planned for - and most practitioners are meeting them as a vendor pro
 duct with a "buy" button\, not as something they can build\, open up\, and
  bend to their own environment. Those are completely different skills. The
  teams who understand the architecture underneath - what the field now cal
 ls **harness engineering** - are the ones who can adapt agentic systems to
  their own tooling and threats instead of being locked into whatever capab
 ilities a vendor decides to ship.\n\nThis hands-on workshop teaches you to
  build your own AI security agent from the ground up. Using threat hunting
  as the running example\, you'll assemble a working\, model-agnostic agent
  framework piece by piece: the immutable state core that makes a run trace
 able and auditable\; an agnostic provider seam\; the **data–agent interf
 ace** that shapes what the model actually sees\; deliberate context-window
  management\; the three ways to give an agent **tools** - inline functions
 \, CLI wrappers\, and MCP\; and executable investigation **skills**\, culm
 inating in a detection skill you run against real telemetry from the scena
 rio.\n\nThis is not a session about prompting a chatbot to read logs. It's
  about the engineering decisions behind systems that agents can do real de
 fensive work inside - and you leave with the framework\, yours to extend t
 o detection engineering\, incident response\, vulnerability triage\, or an
 y security problem you face. Harness engineering is the kind of capability
  that compounds\; the earlier you invest\, the more leverage you carry as 
 the field keeps moving.
DTSTAMP:20261014T080433Z
LOCATION:Track 3 (2104AB)
SUMMARY:Build Your Own AI Security Agent" - Faan Rossouw
URL:https://cfp.hackfest.ca/hf2026/talk/KEC9UP/
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