Nahum Korda

Sources: Knostic blog — Introducing OpenAnt (Research credit).

Who

Research lead on OpenAnt at Knostic. Bylined as the research lead in the Credit section of the OpenAnt announcement; productization credited separately to Alex Raihelgaus and Daniel Geyshis.

Relevance to This Wiki

Lead researcher behind Adversarial Reflexion — the load-bearing technique that lets OpenAnt produce verified-exploitable findings at OSS-maintainer scale (5-orders-of-magnitude candidate reduction at ~$443 / OpenSSL token cost) by removing the agreeable-judge false-positive class at the architecture level rather than at the prompt-engineering level. The technique is the wiki’s second-domain confirmation (alongside MDASH and XBOW × Mythos) of FP-control as architectural primary on the ai-vuln-discovery axis.

Outputs

• OpenAnt — research lead. Open-source six-stage LLM vuln-discovery pipeline; project page openant.knostic.ai, repository knostic/OpenAnt.
• Adversarial Reflexion — named technique surfaced in the OpenAnt announcement.

Notable Statements / Positions

“LLMs are agreeable by default. Ask ‘is this code vulnerable?’ and the model will find a way to say yes.” — OpenAnt announcement, framing for why constrained-persona verification is the load-bearing technique.

Adjacent Gaps

• Biographical detail, prior affiliations, and publication history pending primary-source confirmation. Treat as a seed page until a Knostic personnel page or LinkedIn anchor is fetched.