arXiv AI By James Hugglestone, Samuel Jacob Chacko, Dawson Stoller, Ryan Schmidt, Xiuwen Liu

STRIATUM-CTF: A Protocol-Driven Agentic Framework for Autonomous CTF Solving

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STRIATUM-CTF is a modular agentic framework that uses the Model Context Protocol to mediate between large language model reasoning and the execution of offensive‑security tools. By exposing tools as strictly typed, schema‑validated functions, the protocol rejects invalid tool calls and returns structured observations that the agent can use to self‑correct. In controlled experiments the system achieved 77.8–86.7% success across 15 CTF challenges, and in a live multi‑team CTF at Florida State University it placed first among more than 30 teams.

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