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title: "System Over Model, Tested: Reproducing Mythos’s FreeBSD Find on Local Open-Weight Models"
source_url: http://clearbluejar.github.io/posts/system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/
ingested: 2026-06-06
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System Over Model, Tested: Reproducing Mythos's FreeBSD Find on Local Open-Weight Models

> **TL;DR** Anthropic’s [Claude Mythos Preview](https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/) in April 2026 showed a frontier model finding [CVE-2026-4747](https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:08.rpcsec_gss.asc), a 17-year-old RCE in FreeBSD’s RPCSEC_GSS authentication. A week later, Stanislav Fort at AISLE published a [counter-thesis](https://aisle.com/blog/system-over-model-zero-day-discovery-at-the-jagged-frontier) and reproduced the same find with `gpt-5.4-nano` using their published [`nano-analyzer`](https://github.com/weareaisle/nano-analyzer) pipeline for under $100. I wanted to see whether that reproduction works further down the cost curve. So I ran the pipeline at full sub-system scope (~50 files) using two open-weight models, `openai/gpt-oss-20b` and `google/gemma-4-31b-it`. Out of the box it looked like both missed. But a re-run makes the “miss” go away, and the model finds the bug. The real problem with the local models is noise: the pipeline graduates a pile of false positives and buries the real one. So I changed the system, not the model. One extra reachability stage drops the false positives from 30 to 5, the CVE still standing. The scaffolding does the work, and it’s a lever you can pull on your own model.

The Mythos preview was the moment “AI finds zero-days” stopped being theoretical or at least when everyone started paying attention. AISLE’s reply reminded us that finding zero-days wasn’t a frontier-only capability. Fort’s post reproduced the same discovery on a non-frontier model, using an LLM-powered Python scanner explained below. **The system, he argued, is doing more of the work than the model. The scaffolding is key: prompts, pipeline shape, triage rounds.**

I like the AISLE post. I run local models for several of my RE projects, and they’re getting good fast. The bet that scaffolding does more of the work than the model matched what I was seeing (not that Mythos isn’t strong, but I was surprised how much the system is still needed). So the question I cared about was simple: **same pipeline, same CVE, but on an open-weight model I can run myself**.

This post is about that test. Out of the box, at full `sys/rpc/` sub-system scope, the pipeline looked like it missed CVE-2026-4747 on both models. What I got wrong was my first read of why.

## What AISLE Claimed, and What I Tested[](http://clearbluejar.github.io/posts/system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/#what-aisle-claimed-and-what-i-tested)

AISLE’s published reproduction surfaced CVE-2026-4747 with `gpt-5.4-nano` (default, 2-of-3 trials) and reported `GPT-OSS-20B` at 2-of-3 in their table.

[![Image 1: AISLE's results table: six models (GPT-OSS-20B, Qwen3-32B, GPT-OSS-120B, gpt-5.4-nano, gpt-5.4-mini, gpt-5.4) with access/cost and unpatched/patched detection rates for CVE-2026-4747](http://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/2026-06-04-system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/aisle-results-table.png)](http://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/2026-06-04-system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/aisle-results-table.png)_AISLE’s published benchmark for CVE-2026-4747, detect it in the unpatched tree, stay quiet on the patched one. AISLE doesn’t state the scope per model, which is the gap this post digs into._

Their scanner, 1,700 lines of Python, is the three-stage shape several recent AI-vulnscan pipelines use. AISLE’s [`scan.py`](https://github.com/weareaisle/nano-analyzer/blob/5d05d0afc135db9b541a08dd97fcf085b58e2c0b/scan.py) runs each file through it:

*   **Context briefing** (`<file>.context.md`): map the file’s attack surface (untrusted inputs, buffer sizes, data flows), no bug-hunting yet.
*   **Scan and report severity** (`<file>.md` + `<file>.json`): a worked example (few shot) plus five analytical questions, the model returns severity-rated candidates.
*   **Triage** (`triages/`, then `findings/`): candidates at medium severity or higher get re-checked across several rounds, then a separate-model arbiter (with a grep lookup) decides what graduates.

```
flowchart TD
    Dir[("Directory: sys/rpc/")]
    Dir --> F1[auth_unix.c]
    Dir --> F2[svc_rpcsec_gss.c]
    Dir --> F3[clnt_dg.c]
    Dir --> Fn["...50 files in parallel"]

    F1 --> S1
    F2 --> S1
    F3 --> S1
    Fn --> S1

    S1["<b>Stage 1: Context briefing</b><br/>per file"] --> S2
    S2["<b>Stage 2: Vulnerability scan</b><br/>5 analytical questions +<br/>3-bug few-shot example"] --> Cand
    Cand[("Candidates<br/>severity-rated")] --> Gate

    Gate{"severity ≥ medium?"}
    Gate -->|no| Drop1[/"dropped pre-triage"/]
    Gate -->|yes| T["<b>Stage 3: Multi-round triage</b>"]

    T --> R1["Round 1<br/>V / U / I"]
    R1 --> R2["Round 2<br/>V / U / I"]
    R2 --> Rn["Round N<br/>V / U / I"]
    Rn --> Vote{"Majority?"}

    Vote -->|≥2 VALID| Surv[("graduated to findings")]
    Vote -->|≥2 INVALID| Drop2[/"filtered out"/]
    Vote -->|tie / UNCERTAIN| Arb["Arbiter<br/>different model<br/>+ grep verification"]
    Arb -->|VALID| Surv
    Arb -->|INVALID / UNCERTAIN| Drop2

    classDef stage fill:#e8f0ff,stroke:#333,stroke-width:1px,color:#1a1a1a
    classDef round fill:#e6f0ff,stroke:#666,color:#1a1a1a
    classDef file fill:#f5f5f5,stroke:#999,color:#1a1a1a
    classDef terminal fill:#f0f0f0,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px,color:#1a1a1a
    classDef gate fill:#fff5e6,stroke:#cc8800,stroke-width:1px,color:#1a1a1a
    classDef survive fill:#d4edda,stroke:#155724,color:#1a1a1a
    classDef drop fill:#f8d7da,stroke:#721c24,color:#1a1a1a

    class Dir terminal
    class F1,F2,F3,Fn file
    class S1,S2,T,Arb stage
    class R1,R2,Rn round
    class Gate,Vote gate
    class Surv survive
    class Drop1,Drop2 drop
```

This scanner is basic: a handful of LLM-powered rounds over every file, no clever targeting. It brute-forces where a frontier model would reason strategically about where to look, and it works with surprising success. So I tested it at the scope a real hunt would use, on local open-weight models, trying to answer the question: **does AISLE’s pipeline still find the bug?**

The two models:

*   **`openai/gpt-oss-20b`**: open-weight, 20 billion parameters, runs on a single consumer GPU. Same model AISLE listed. Ancient model in “AI time”, but one of the first local models that gave me real results.
*   **`google/gemma-4-31b-it`**: open-weight, 31 billion parameters, same single consumer GPU. Not in AISLE’s table; I’ve been meaning to test it more for RE/VR.

Here’s the bug, `svc_rpc_gss_validate` in `svc_rpcsec_gss.c`:

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/* struct opaque_auth, from sys/rpc/xdr.h */
struct opaque_auth {
	enum_t	oa_flavor;	/* flavor of auth */
	caddr_t	oa_base;	/* address of more auth stuff */
	u_int	oa_length;	/* not to exceed MAX_AUTH_BYTES */
};

/* FreeBSD sys/rpc/rpcsec_gss/svc_rpcsec_gss.c (pre-patch) */
static bool_t
svc_rpc_gss_validate(struct svc_rpc_gss_client *client, struct rpc_msg *msg,
    gss_qop_t *qop, rpc_gss_proc_t gcproc)
{
	struct opaque_auth	*oa;
	gss_buffer_desc		 rpcbuf, checksum;
	OM_uint32		 maj_stat, min_stat;
	gss_qop_t		 qop_state;
	int32_t			 rpchdr[128 / sizeof(int32_t)];
	int32_t			*buf;

	memset(rpchdr, 0, sizeof(rpchdr));

	/* Reconstruct RPC header for signing (from xdr_callmsg). */
	buf = rpchdr;
	IXDR_PUT_LONG(buf, msg->rm_xid);
	IXDR_PUT_ENUM(buf, msg->rm_direction);
	IXDR_PUT_LONG(buf, msg->rm_call.cb_rpcvers);
	IXDR_PUT_LONG(buf, msg->rm_call.cb_prog);
	IXDR_PUT_LONG(buf, msg->rm_call.cb_vers);
	IXDR_PUT_LONG(buf, msg->rm_call.cb_proc);
	oa = &msg->rm_call.cb_cred;
	IXDR_PUT_ENUM(buf, oa->oa_flavor);
	IXDR_PUT_LONG(buf, oa->oa_length);
	/* No upper bound, only a non-zero check: attacker-controlled
	 * oa_length (a u_int) overruns the 96 bytes left in the 128-byte rpchdr. */
	if (oa->oa_length) {
		memcpy((caddr_t)buf, oa->oa_base, oa->oa_length);
		buf += RNDUP(oa->oa_length) / sizeof(int32_t);
	}
	<several lines omitted>
}
```

On the vulnerable file by itself, both models nail it. Scan just `svc_rpcsec_gss.c` and each confirms the overflow.

[![Image 2: Gemma's triage of the vulnerable svc_rpcsec_gss.c on its own: 'Bug Class 1: Stack or heap buffer overflow via unchecked length' marked CONFIRMED, the 128-byte rpchdr and unbounded oa_length spelled out with a 'what would change your verdict' rubric, and Bug Class 2 integer overflow correctly downgraded.](http://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/2026-06-04-system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/shot-04-nano-gemma-confirmed.png)](http://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/2026-06-04-system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/shot-04-nano-gemma-confirmed.png)

[`gemma-4-31b-it`](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/blob/main/scan-demo/results/nano-vulnerable.json):

> The code copies `oa->oa_length` bytes into a 128-byte stack buffer (`rpchdr`) without any bounds check. `oa->oa_length` comes from the network and can be arbitrarily large or negative, so the copy can overflow the stack and corrupt control data.

[`gpt-oss-20b`](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/blob/main/scan-demo/results/nano-gptoss20b-vulnerable.json):

> The code copies `oa->oa_length` bytes into a 128-byte stack buffer that already contains 32 bytes of header. No bounds check is performed before the `memcpy`. If the credential length exceeds 96 bytes the copy overruns the buffer.

That’s the easy case, and it matches AISLE’s focused detection: eight of eight models in their [jagged-frontier post](https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jagged-frontier) caught this bug.

But a single file isn’t a real test, and it isn’t what Mythos did. Per [Anthropic’s writeup](https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/), Mythos scaffolded across _hundreds_ of kernel files: rank each by attack surface, hypothesize, run the project to confirm or reject, validate against a crash oracle. Even the frontier model leaned on the system.

So I ran that same scaffold type on these local models, scaled up from the single file to the whole `freebsd-prepatch/sys/rpc/` sub-system, ~50 files and 20,000 lines, what you might target searching for RPC bugs.

I ran AISLE’s `scan.py` as published, multi-round triage and grep-backed arbiter, on each model. One pipeline, two models, one target, CVE-2026-4747. The question was simple: **does it find the bug, and can you trust what it reports?**

## Run 1 — AISLE’s Pipeline + gemma-4-31b-it: Right Line, Wrong Rationale[](http://clearbluejar.github.io/posts/system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/#run-1--aisles-pipeline--gemma-4-31b-it-right-line-wrong-rationale)

```
flowchart LR
    A[("~50 files<br/>sys/rpc/")] --> S["scan"]
    S --> C[("157 candidates")]
    C --> T["triage<br/>3 rounds + arbiter"]
    T --> V[("30 VALID findings")]
    S -.->|"CVE-2026-4747 written up, not scored"| X[/"dropped at scan"/]
    classDef node fill:#e8f0ff,stroke:#333,color:#1a1a1a
    classDef drop fill:#f8d7da,stroke:#721c24,color:#1a1a1a
    class A,S,C,T,V node
    class X drop
```

_Run 1’s funnel. The 17-year-old RCE never reaches the 157 candidates, Gemma downgrades it at scan, so the triage rounds never see it._

AISLE’s `scan.py` against `sys/rpc/` on `gemma-4-31b-it` ran for ~60 minutes. The funnel surfaces 157 [_candidates_](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/tree/main/results-aisle-gemma-sysrpc/triages) at scan stage (anything that might be a bug) and after three rounds of triage 30 graduate to [_VALID_ findings](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/tree/main/results-aisle-gemma-sysrpc/findings). **CVE-2026-4747 is not among them**. The scan stage flags `svc_rpc_gss_validate`, but it reasons about the bug incorrectly.

Gemma’s scan claims a bounds check the code doesn’t have:

[![Image 3: Gemma's Stage 2 scan output for svc_rpcsec_gss.c: its 'Potential Out-of-Bounds Access in svc_rpc_gss_validate' subsection invents a strict bounds check and concludes the copy is limited to 96 bytes, a check the actual listing doesn't contain.](http://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/2026-06-04-system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/shot-02-gemma-scan-downgrade.png)](http://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/2026-06-04-system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/shot-02-gemma-scan-downgrade.png)

But the code has no such check, only `if (oa->oa_length)`, a non-zero test. **Gemma invented a defense that isn’t in the code**, downgraded the real overflow to a minor `RNDUP` alignment issue, and dropped it before triage ever saw it. The [scan digest for that file](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/blob/main/results-aisle-gemma-sysrpc/rpcsec_gss_svc_rpcsec_gss.c.md#summary-of-findings) shows the cost: `svc_rpcsec_gss.c` comes back with **zero critical findings**.

The run died at the scan stage. A 31-billion-parameter model had talked itself out of a textbook stack overflow, and my honest first read was that Gemma just wasn’t up to the real thing. Hold that thought.

## Run 2 — AISLE’s Pipeline + gpt-oss-20b: Right Answer, Dropped by the Vote[](http://clearbluejar.github.io/posts/system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/#run-2--aisles-pipeline--gpt-oss-20b-right-answer-dropped-by-the-vote)

```
flowchart LR
    A[("~50 files<br/>sys/rpc/")] --> S["scan"]
    S --> C[("173 candidates")]
    C --> T["triage<br/>3 rounds + arbiter"]
    T --> V[("21 VALID findings")]
    T -.->|"CVE-2026-4747 voted U / V / U"| X[/"47 UNCERTAIN, dropped"/]
    classDef node fill:#e8f0ff,stroke:#333,color:#1a1a1a
    classDef drop fill:#f8d7da,stroke:#721c24,color:#1a1a1a
    class A,S,C,T,V node
    class X drop
```

_Run 2’s funnel. This time the RCE reaches triage and gets scored, but the three rounds split U / V / U, normalize to UNCERTAIN, and it drops into the 47-deep UNCERTAIN pile below the graduation threshold._

Same `scan.py`, same `sys/rpc/` scope, on `openai/gpt-oss-20b` and another hour scan time. The funnel surfaces 173 [candidates](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/tree/main/results-aisle-gpt-oss-sysrpc/triages) at scan stage, 21 graduate to [VALID](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/tree/main/results-aisle-gpt-oss-sysrpc/findings), and 47 land in _UNCERTAIN_ (the pile that didn’t clearly pass or fail).

CVE-2026-4747 is in the UNCERTAIN pile. Look at the [per-round triage trace for that candidate](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/blob/main/results-aisle-gpt-oss-sysrpc/triages/T0153_rpcsec_gss_svc_rpcsec_gss.c_Stack_buffer_overflow_in_header_reconstr.md):

> Round 1: ❓ UNCERTAIN
> 
> 
> Round 2: ✅ VALID
> 
> 
> _“Overflow due to memcpy of unbounded `oa->oa\_length` into a 128‑byte stack buffer rpchdr in svc\_rpc\_gss\_validate. The code does not limit oa\_length – only checks that it is non‑zero. An attacker controls oa\_length via the network packet’s rpc\_cred field, and can set it arbitrarily large. No defensive check (e.g., bound on oa\_len, MAXAUTH, or RPC message size) is performed before this call. Therefore the overflow is reachable and can corrupt the stack, leading to possible crash or code execution.”_
> 
> 
> Round 3: ❓ UNCERTAIN

The model is _capable_ of the right answer in round 2, just not reliably. Rounds 1 and 3 went the other way, the vote landed on UNCERTAIN at 33% confidence, and the funnel dropped it. **The pipeline didn’t fail because the model was wrong. It failed because the model only _looked_ right one time out of three.** Both AISLE’s published numbers (`gpt-5.4-nano` and `gpt-oss-20b` each at 2 of 3 trials on the same CVE) and ours land at the same observation. With this model, the triage verdict is a coin flip.

## The Misses Don’t Survive a Second Look[](http://clearbluejar.github.io/posts/system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/#the-misses-dont-survive-a-second-look)

Walk away after Run 1 and Run 2 and you’d say “the models just aren’t up to it.” That was my first thought too. But you should always run a test twice.

Re-run Gemma’s scan on `svc_rpcsec_gss.c` and it catches the overflow, not once but every time: twelve hosted runs and five more on a local 4-bit quant, [seventeen for seventeen](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/blob/main/run1-reproducibility/SUMMARY.md), each reporting that nothing bounds `oa_length` before the `memcpy`. [Here’s one of those runs](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/blob/main/run1-reproducibility/report_00.md): same pipeline, same file, the overflow back at #1. Run 1’s confident miss was the exception, one unlucky draw out of eighteen. gpt-oss is shakier, but the same issue. Run its triage several more times and the finding survives in eleven of fourteen tries.

* * *

The vulnerable-vs-patched check in AISLE’s table up top holds on local models too: hand the pair to five local models with no hints, and four of five tell them apart.

| Model | Vulnerable | Patched twin | Tells them apart?| `gpt-oss-20b` | flagged | rejected | ✅ | | `qwen3.5-35b` | flagged | rejected | ✅ | | `qwen3.5-35b` (`/no_think`) | flagged | rejected | ✅ | | `gemma-4-26b` (abliterated) | flagged | rejected | ✅ | | `gemma-4-31b` | flagged | **“confirmed” (false positive)** | ❌ | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |

_The lone miss, `gemma-4-31b`, false-positives on the patch in this run; re-run it and it [clears the patch six of six](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/blob/main/5-model-matrix/gemma-patched-rerun/SUMMARY.md), the same single-run noise the rest of the post is about. [Full matrix and per-model output.](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/blob/main/5-model-matrix/FINDINGS.md)_

* * *

## The Real Problem Is the False Positives[](http://clearbluejar.github.io/posts/system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/#the-real-problem-is-the-false-positives)

The misses recover after running more than once. The noise doesn’t.

Run 1 graduated **30 findings to VALID**. I read all thirty against the source. Exactly one was a real defect, and it wasn’t CVE-2026-4747: it was an unrelated, still-unfixed [double-`rw_wlock` deadlock in `clnt_nl_destroy`](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/blob/main/clnt_nl-double-lock.md) that the funnel surfaced by accident. The bug I wanted to find never made the list. Run 2 graduated 21, same story. The funnel _feels_ productive, and it’s mostly noise burying the one finding that matters.

That’s the real cost of running these models out of the box. Not that they can’t find the bug, but without help from the system they struggle to find the signal in the noise.

## Change the System, Not the Model[](http://clearbluejar.github.io/posts/system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/#change-the-system-not-the-model)

The false positives aren’t necessarily a model failure. The system just isn’t doing enough _for_ these models yet. It graduates anything shaped like a bug without asking whether an attacker can actually reach it.

So I gave it one more stage. Same weights, no new model. A [reachability pass](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/blob/main/scaffolding/reachability_filter.py) that takes each VALID finding and makes the model trace it back to an entry point, grep for the callers, check whether the cited length is really attacker-controlled or just kernel-set, and reject anything that’s dead code or already bounded. On Run 1’s thirty, it keeps five and drops twenty-five. And it doesn’t throw away the real bug: feed it the surfaced CVE finding and the filter keeps it VALID, five runs out of five.

```
flowchart LR
    V[("AISLE funnel<br/>30 VALID findings")] --> R["reachability stage<br/>same weights, +1 pass<br/>is it attacker-reachable?"]
    R --> K[("5 VALID<br/>includes the CVE, valid across 5 runs")]
    R -.->|"not reachable: dead code, kernel-set length, privileged-only"| D[/"25 dropped"/]
    classDef node fill:#e8f0ff,stroke:#333,color:#1a1a1a
    classDef keep fill:#d4edda,stroke:#155724,color:#1a1a1a
    classDef drop fill:#f8d7da,stroke:#721c24,color:#1a1a1a
    class V,R node
    class K keep
    class D drop
```

Five isn’t zero false positives though, the survivors are “reachable but bounded” cases you still check by hand. But five is a list you’ll actually read, while thirty is where the real one gets lost.

And it isn’t a Gemma trick. The same stage prunes gpt-oss’s findings the same way, CVE kept, down from 21 to 4 VALID. Same lever AISLE pulled: improve the system, not the model. It’s one stage, `reachability_filter.py` in the repo, and you can try it on your own runs.

## Reproduce It Yourself[](http://clearbluejar.github.io/posts/system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/#reproduce-it-yourself)

Everything’s in [`clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma`](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma), Apache 2.0, attribution to AISLE upstream. Point any OpenAI-compatible endpoint at it (LM Studio, Ollama, vLLM, OpenWebUI, OpenRouter), set `LM_BASE_URL` and `LM_API_KEY`, and bring whatever model you can run. The repo has:

*   `scaffolding/reachability_filter.py`: the reachability stage, run it on any scanner’s `findings/` to cut the false positives
*   `scaffolding/fetch_freebsd.sh`: shallow-clones the pre-patch (vulnerable) FreeBSD `sys/rpc/` tree
*   The cached AISLE runs, `results-aisle-gemma-sysrpc/` (Run 1) and `results-aisle-gpt-oss-sysrpc/` (Run 2), with per-file context, scan, `triages/`, and the graduated `findings/`
*   `run1-reproducibility/` and `run2-reproducibility/`: the re-runs that turn each “miss” into a rate, plus the triage and local-quant checks
*   `reachability-tweak/`: the 30→5 result and the keep-the-CVE test
*   `5-model-matrix/`: five local models on the vulnerable-vs-patched pair

AISLE’s `scan.py` itself (~1,700 LoC, multi-round triage with grep-as-tool) is upstream at [`weareaisle/nano-analyzer`](https://github.com/weareaisle/nano-analyzer).

To run it end to end on your own model:

1.   **Get the target.**`scaffolding/fetch_freebsd.sh` shallow-clones the pre-patch (vulnerable) `sys/rpc/` tree into `freebsd-prepatch/`.
2.   **Scan it with your backend.** Copy `.env.example` to `.env` with your endpoint, clone AISLE’s `scan.py` alongside the repo, then the [`run-aisle.sh` wrapper](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/blob/main/scan-demo/bin/run-aisle.sh) runs the real 3-stage scan on a single file: `scan-demo/bin/run-aisle.sh targets/vulnerable.c` (~5–10 min). It derives AISLE’s `CUSTOM_BASE_URL`/`CUSTOM_API_KEY` from your `.env` for you. Point the same `scan.py` at `freebsd-prepatch/sys/rpc` for the full sub-system run.
3.   **Cut the noise.** Point `reachability_filter.py` at the run’s `findings/`. The cached `results-aisle-*-sysrpc/` show what a full pass over `sys/rpc/` produces if you’d rather not re-scan.
4.   **Or in one shot.**[`scan-and-filter.sh`](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma/blob/main/scan-demo/bin/scan-and-filter.sh) chains steps 2 and 3. Hand it one file (`scan-demo/bin/scan-and-filter.sh targets/vulnerable.c`) or the whole tree for the full sub-system run (`scan-demo/bin/scan-and-filter.sh freebsd-prepatch/sys/rpc`); it scans, runs the reachability stage, and copies the survivors into `findings-reachable/`. Use `--filter-only <findings/>` to re-filter a run you already have.

[![Image 4: OpenWebUI API analytics dashboard for the runs: 10.8M total tokens (8.5M input, 2.2M output), 1.3K messages across openai/gpt-oss-20b and google/gemma-4-31b-it](http://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/2026-06-04-system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/shot-01-token-analytics.png)](http://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/2026-06-04-system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/shot-01-token-analytics.png)_OpenWebUI’s OpenRouter view for this work, ~10.8M tokens, ~1.3K requests. One AISLE `scan.py` pass over `sys/rpc/` is ~700 of those. All of it, retries and dead ends included, ran about $12 on OpenRouter, and zero if you run the model locally._

## Coming Up Next[](http://clearbluejar.github.io/posts/system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/#coming-up-next)

I’ve got more coming on this, from a different angle. Stay tuned.

Reach out on [X](https://x.com/clearbluejar) or [mastadon](https://infosec.exchange/@clearbluejar) if you have questions, and send the [reproduction repo](https://github.com/clearseclabs/system-over-model-gemma) a ⭐️ if you find it useful.

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## Going Deeper with This Workflow[](http://clearbluejar.github.io/posts/system-over-model-tested-mythos-freebsd-local-openweight/#going-deeper-with-this-workflow)

[[![Image 5: Agentic RE: Automating Reverse Engineering & Vulnerability Research with AI — virtual cohort](http://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/training/building-agentic-re.jpg)](http://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/training/building-agentic-re.jpg)](https://l.clearseclabs.com/agentic-re-csl-2026)[[![Image 6: DEF CON Training signage for Agentic RE: Automating Reverse Engineering & Vulnerability Research with AI](http://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/training/agentic-re-secondary.jpg)](http://clearbluejar.github.io/assets/img/training/agentic-re-secondary.jpg)](https://l.clearseclabs.com/defcon-agentic-re-vegas-2026)

If this post made you want to build, scaffold, and break local AI pipelines against real targets, that’s exactly what **Agentic RE: Automating Reverse Engineering & Vulnerability Research with AI** covers, end to end. The course works the system-over-model thesis as a runnable artifact: AISLE’s three-stage pipeline on a model you control, detection measured as a rate rather than a single run, and your own system stages (like the reachability filter here) to cut the false positives. Plus reproducible agent workflows across Windows, Apple, Android, and other platforms. I’m teaching it in two formats:

*   **Virtual cohort, July 6-10 2026** — five half-days, live over Zoom: [Agentic RE — CLEARSECLABS virtual](https://l.clearseclabs.com/agentic-re-csl-2026)
*   **DEF CON 34, August 10-11 2026** — two days in person, Las Vegas: [Agentic RE @ DEF CON 34](https://l.clearseclabs.com/defcon-agentic-re-vegas-2026)