{"slug": "sonar-launches-hunter-agent-to-find-flaws-code-scanners-cant-see", "title": "Sonar launches Hunter Agent to find flaws code scanners can’t see", "summary": "SonarSource Sàrl today released SonarQube Hunter Agent, an AI agent designed to identify security flaws that pattern-based code scanners cannot detect, such as vulnerabilities where code performs exactly as written, like a user opening another customer's records. The agent targets logic-based security issues that traditional scanning tools miss.", "body_md": "# Sonar launches Hunter Agent to find flaws code scanners can’t see\n\n[SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com)\n\n[Artificial intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence) code verification and governance company SonarSource Sàrl today released SonarQube Hunter Agent, an [AI agent](/glossary/ai-agent) built to find security flaws that pattern-based scanning cannot see. The vulnerabilities it targets are the ones where the code does exactly what it was written to do. A user opens another customer’s records. A checkout step gets […]\n\nThe post [Sonar launches Hunter Agent to find flaws code scanners can’t see](https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/27/sonar-launches-hunter-agent-to-find-flaws-code-scanners-cant-see/) appeared first on [SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com).\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.\n\n## Key Terms Explained\n\n[AI Agent](/glossary/ai-agent)\n\nAn autonomous AI system that can perceive its environment, make decisions, and take actions to achieve goals.\n\n[Artificial Intelligence](/glossary/artificial-intelligence)\n\nThe science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sonar-launches-hunter-agent-to-find-flaws-code-scanners-cant-see", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/sonar-launches-hunter-agent-to-find-flaws-code-scanners-cant-awt0", "published_at": "2026-08-27 13:00:16+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-27 13:21:26.362006+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["SonarSource Sàrl", "SonarQube Hunter Agent"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sonar-launches-hunter-agent-to-find-flaws-code-scanners-cant-see", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sonar-launches-hunter-agent-to-find-flaws-code-scanners-cant-see.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sonar-launches-hunter-agent-to-find-flaws-code-scanners-cant-see.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sonar-launches-hunter-agent-to-find-flaws-code-scanners-cant-see.jsonld"}}