The Harness Advantage in Autonomous Red Teaming: Why Frontier LLMs Alone Fail Offensive Security and How RidgeGen Solves the Alignment Dilemma

An Empirical 8-Model Benchmark on Agent Harness Architecture, Model Over-Refusal, Token Efficiency, and Enterprise Sovereignty in Modern AI-Driven Penetration Testing 1. The Core Thesis: Offensive Capability Is a Function of the Harness, Not the Raw Model In my book on…

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