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Show HN: Beating GPT5.5-xhigh for Coding agent security with SLMs and IRM

A cybersecurity startup claims its small language model, post-trained with inline reference monitoring, outperforms GPT5.5-xhigh on coding agent security benchmarks including LinuxArena and SleightBench. The free product is available at harden.run, with full benchmarks in the blog post.

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Show HN: Beating GPT5.5-xhigh for Coding agent security with SLMs and IRM
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Coding agents craft arbitrary code so securing them is more complicated than red-teaming. We post trained a cyber-security small llm, changed how it reasons and supplemented our controls using program analysis techniques such as inline reference monitoring to outperform GPT5.5-xhigh on hard benchmarks like LinuxArena and SleightBench.

Free product available at harden.run and full benchmarks in the blog post.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472151](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472151)

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