Autonomous remediation
Autonomous remediation closes findings with proof, not tickets.
Autonomous remediation turns a credible finding into a bounded, tested, reviewable pull request with a signed evidence packet — so the finding is closed and provable, not just re-assigned.
Boetica leads accepted-fix, no-regression, and scanner-clean rates on the remediation benchmark.ScorecardSigned · Jun 2026Signed scorecard: KMS/Sigstore signed and re-verifiable, dated Jun 2026.
Autonomous remediation, defined
Autonomous remediation is the end-to-end resolution of a security or compliance finding by an agent operating under policy: confirm reachability, write a bounded patch, add tests, run CI, re-scan to prove the finding is gone, and attach a signed evidence packet for human review and audit. The human still merges; the agent does the work and produces the proof.
Most security tooling is good at finding problems and bad at finishing them. A scanner emits a finding, a ticket is opened, and the work of writing a safe fix, proving it does not regress anything, and recording why it is closed still falls on an already-overloaded engineer. Autonomous remediation is the practice of having an agent do that finishing work inside a governed boundary, and leaving evidence a human and an auditor can both trust.
The distinction that matters is proof. An agent that suggests a patch is not remediation; it is another suggestion to review. Remediation is only real when the change is reachable, scoped, tested, scanner-clean, and signed — every step inspectable after the fact.
Reachability comes before the patch
A finding worth fixing is one that is actually reachable in code that ships. Autonomous remediation starts by confirming the route, package, or policy path is live, so engineering effort goes to real exposure instead of scanner noise.
- Confirm the finding reaches a used route, package, or policy path.
- De-prioritize unreachable or compensating-control-covered findings.
- Carry the reachability rationale into the evidence packet.
The fix is bounded and reviewable
A remediation PR a human cannot understand is not safe to merge. The change is scoped tightly enough to read in one sitting, with the blast radius, added tests, and rollback path stated plainly.
- Small diffs scoped to the affected boundary.
- Added tests that exercise the fixed behavior.
- An explicit rollback note and blast-radius statement.
Closure is proven, then signed
The finding is only closed when a re-scan shows it gone, CI is green, and the change carries control-family mapping where a control is touched. That proof is hashed and signed so it is re-verifiable later.
- Scanner-clean delta showing the finding resolved.
- Green CI and a recorded policy decision.
- A KMS/Sigstore-signed evidence packet mapped to SOC 2 / NIST controls when relevant.
The proof behind the claims
Every claim on this page resolves to one of these signed artifacts.
Autonomous remediation — frequently asked
How is autonomous remediation different from auto-triage?
Auto-triage decides which findings matter. Autonomous remediation does the next step: it writes the fix, proves it with tests and a scanner-clean re-scan, and signs the evidence — so the finding is closed, not just prioritized.
Does an agent merge fixes without review?
No. Human merge is the default. Branch protection, policy, and budget gates are enforced before a repo can earn more autonomy, and every remediation PR carries the evidence a reviewer needs to decide.
What proves a finding was actually fixed?
A scanner-clean delta, green CI, a recorded policy decision, and a hash-signed evidence packet mapped to the relevant control family. The packet is re-verifiable from its signature later.
Related topics
Each guide is linked to its own signed proof.
- AI AppSec remediationAI AppSec remediation only works if the fix is honest.AI can draft an AppSec fix in seconds. The hard part is proving the fix is correct, reachable, and non-regressing — and refusing to ship a confident-looking PR that quietly breaks behavior.
- Proof-backed pull requestsA proof-backed pull request earns the merge it asks for.A proof-backed PR carries everything a reviewer and an auditor need in one place: the diff, the tests, CI status, the policy decision, control mapping where relevant, and a signature that makes the whole packet re-verifiable.
- Agentic SDLC governanceAgentic SDLC governance enforces policy before the agent starts.Governing AI coding agents is not a code-review step bolted on at the end. It is a preflight: policy, branch protection, budget, model routing, and autonomy level are resolved before a run executes, and autonomy demotes automatically when quality drops.
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