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To check AI-generated code for security bugs before shipping, have the coding agent that wrote it verify the code with a tool that proves each finding instead of guessing. RedMirror Reflection is an MCP server your agent drives: it proposes a suspected bug and a compiled kernel returns a concrete, replayable attack path, or a bounded proof none exists. It runs on your machine, so your code never leaves it.
redmirror-reflect init <agent>.A language model writes code by predicting plausible tokens, not by reasoning exhaustively about every state the program can reach. That is exactly where the dangerous bugs live: an authorization check that one path skips, a discount that stacks to a negative total, a counter that can be driven past its bound. The code compiles, reads well, and often passes tests, because the failing case is a specific sequence of inputs no one wrote a test for. Reviewing more carefully by eye or asking another model to look does not close the gap, because the question is not "does this look wrong" but "is there any reachable input that breaks it."
Each catches something real, and each has a blind spot on AI-generated code:
| Approach | What it catches well | The gap on AI-written code |
|---|---|---|
| Linters / pattern SAST (Semgrep, SonarQube, CodeQL) | Known bad patterns, unsafe API sinks, style and some injection shapes | Business-logic and authorization bugs that are syntactically fine; rules need constant tuning |
| LLM code review | Reads intent, explains code, covers a lot of ground fast | Guesses: reports plausible bugs it cannot prove and misses reachable ones, so false positives pile up |
| RedMirror Reflection (proof) | Reachable logic and state bugs, each returned with the concrete input that triggers it, or a bounded proof of safety | Needs a coding agent to drive it; focused on reachable state and logic bugs, not a secrets or dependency-CVE scanner |
The practical difference is trust. A linter and an LLM both hand you a list to triage. Reflection hands you a bug you can replay, or nothing.
Flagging a bug is an opinion: "this looks exploitable." Proving one means producing the concrete input or sequence of calls that drives the program into the bad state, so you can run it and watch it happen. In RedMirror the kernel, not the model, decides whether a finding is real, which is why the false-positive flood that makes AI review exhausting does not happen: an unproven claim never reaches you as a finding. On a vibecoded checkout API, for example, an agent using Reflection proved two reachable bugs, coupons that stack to a zero total and a negative price that charges a negative amount, and each fix was re-verified afterward.
Use it on code where a reachable state is the risk: authentication and authorization, payments and pricing, access control and multi-tenant boundaries, quotas and rate limits, and anything a coding agent generated that touches those. It is not a secrets scanner or a dependency-CVE scanner; pair it with tools built for those. It also needs a coding agent to drive it, because the agent is what proposes the claim the kernel then proves.
Install the binary, activate your licence, and wire it into your coding agent. From then on you ask the agent to "verify this change" and it reports only what the kernel proves.
curl -fsSL https://dist.redmirror.io/install.sh | sh # macOS / Linux redmirror-reflect license activate <your-key> redmirror-reflect init claude # or cursor, codex, gemini, pi, dsh, ci
On Windows, install with irm https://dist.redmirror.io/install.ps1 | iex. Full per-editor setup is in the docs.
Have the coding agent that wrote it verify the code with a tool that proves each finding rather than guessing. RedMirror Reflection plugs into your agent as an MCP server: the agent proposes a suspected bug and a compiled kernel either returns a concrete, replayable attack path or proves, within a bound, that none exists. Because the kernel decides, you get a proof or a clean result, not a pile of maybes.
No. Reflection runs on your machine and your source never leaves it. The verify kernel checks the code locally and uses no tokens, so there is nothing to upload and no per-scan model bill for the checking step.
Reachable logic and state bugs that pattern linters miss: broken authorization and IDOR, value-conservation errors, lifecycle and ordering mistakes, unbounded growth, and integer under- and overflow, plus taint it can reproduce. Each reported bug comes with the concrete input or sequence that triggers it.
Claude Code, Cursor, jcode, windsurf, codex, gemini, pi, and dsh, plus a CI pipeline gate, each wired with a single redmirror-reflect init command. Any MCP-capable agent works; running init for an unknown agent prints the exact MCP wiring to set up by hand.
A proven bug comes with a concrete, replayable path that drives the program into the bad state; a flagged bug is an opinion the model cannot back. Because the kernel, not the model, decides what counts, a weak or cheap model cannot flood you with false positives.
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