Centaur Security Labs¶
Research and development in AI-augmented security operations — by Jay Hawkins.
Centaur Security Labs is a practitioner-led research lab built on a single question: what does principled human-machine collaboration actually look like in security operations — not in theory, but in production, against real targets, under real constraints?
The best security operations don't come from AI replacing analysts or analysts avoiding AI. They come from a principled division of labor — where the machine handles consistent execution, high-volume processing, and tactical recall, and the human handles strategic judgment, organizational context, and accountability for decisions that carry legal or ethical weight. Neither half alone produces the result. The division of work is what makes the difference.
That model is the thesis of this lab. Everything here — the tools and the research — is built on it or derived from it.
The model in practice: ARCHER is a local-first AI penetration testing agent built on this architecture. The research documents what building and running it in production actually surfaces.
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