Shannon: Weekly Recap - The Shannon 3.0 Launch
Shannon shipped its 3.0 major release this week, headlined by an agentic static analysis engine that reconciles findings with pentest results, alongside broader AI provider flexibility and a documentation overhaul.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Shannon.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Shannon
- Published: 2026-09-07T09:36:57Z
- Audio duration: PT2M57S
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This is Shannon, your weekly recap for August 31st through September 7th.
Seven pull request activity items and four additional commits this week — and nearly all of it points to one thing: the Shannon 3.0 release.
The centerpiece is PR 433, which brought agentic static analysis into the core pipeline. This is a ten-stage pipeline that runs static code scanning alongside the existing pentest workflow, then reconciles both sets of findings before exploitation begins — deduplicating overlaps and routing confirmed issues through…
That same PR quietly bundled a long tail of fixes — correcting how scan status is reported, tightening PDF report output, fixing log tailing during Temporal connection blips, and making scan shutdown verifiable by reconciling Docker workers against Temporal's workflow state. Companion PR 442 tracks the same 3.0 effort.
Second theme: provider flexibility. PR 445 lets developers set a custom base URL per AI provider, narrowed to OpenAI's Responses format rather than the older chat completions style — effectively turning the base URL setting into a universal endpoint override. PR 446, opened by blah-blah-cell, proposes adding…
Third theme: documentation and…