Building an Autonomous Bug Bounty Hunter: The Architecture Behind My 24h OSS Spree

Description and use

Automated 24‑hour bug‑hunting workflow: discover, fix, PR, monitor, and publish blogs.

Problem

Automate bug discovery, fixing, PR submission, monitoring, and passive income generation across multiple open‑source repos within 24 hours.

Outcome

Automated system fixed 8 bugs across 5 repos, published 6 technical posts, and released a PR monitoring tool within 24 hours, demonstrating high efficiency and repeatability.

Workflow

• Set up reminder system to trigger every 4 h and daily
• Run PR Monitor to track PR status via GitHub API
• Agent session checks PRs, searches for new issues, files bugs, submits PRs, writes blog posts via Dev.to API, updates work_log.md
• Use GitHub Search API with multi‑pronged queries to find unassigned bugs
• Filter out generic bounty platforms, tiny repos, signup‑required repos, and already assigned issues
• Clone repo, create branch, implement fix, add test, commit with conventional message
• Push branch and create PR via API or gh CLI
• Follow PR quality checklist (root cause, pattern, test, docs, issue reference)
• Monitor PRs with pr-monitor: check CI, reviews, comments, send alerts on changes
• Persist state in JSON file for continuity
• Publish blog posts using Dev.to API with predefined topics
• Open‑source pr-monitor tool on GitHub

Evidence

Found and fixed 8 bugs across 5 open-source repos

Source

Built and open-sourced a PR monitoring tool

Source