PatchIsland: Orchestration of LLM Agents for Continuous Vulnerability Repair

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Authors: Wonyoung Kim, Seunggi Min, Minjae Gwon, Dowoo Baik, Haein Lee, Hyeon Heo, Minjae Lee, Min Woo Baek, Yonghwi Jin, Younggi Park, Yunjae Choi, Taesoo Kim
+2 more Sangdon Park, Insu Yun
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Abstract

Continuous fuzzing platforms such as OSS-Fuzz uncover large numbers of vulnerabilities, yet the subsequent repair process remains largely manual. Unfortunately, existing Automated Vulnerability Repair (AVR) techniques -- including recent LLM-based systems -- are not directly applicable to continuous fuzzing. This is because these systems are designed and evaluated on a static, single-run benchmark setting, making them ill-suited for the diverse, noisy, and failure-prone environments in continuous fuzzing. To address these issues, we introduce PatchIsland, a system for Continuous Vulnerability Repair (CVR) that tightly integrates with continuous fuzzing pipelines. PatchIsland employs an ensemble of diverse LLM agents. By leveraging multiple LLM agents, PatchIsland can cover a wider range of settings (e.g., different projects, bug types, and programming languages) and also improve operational robustness. In addition, PatchIsland utilizes a two-phase patch-based deduplication to mitigate duplicate crashes and patches, which can be problematic in continuous fuzzing. In our internal evaluation, PatchIsland repaired 84 of 92 vulnerabilities, demonstrating strong repair capability. In the official AIxCC competition, the system operated with no human intervention in a fully autonomous environment and successfully patched 31 out of 43 vulnerabilities, achieving a repair rate of 72.1\%.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Software Testing and Debugging Techniques Software Engineering Research Security and Verification in Computing

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Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
24 January 2026
Document type
Preprint