2024 · paper
Authscan formalizes extraction of authentication protocol semantics from traces and implementation artifacts for formal security analysis.
thesis signal: Demonstrates explicit auth-structure inference can produce reusable protocol models, directly validating authRecipe IR goals.
protocol extractionsemantic inferenceauthformal verification
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2022 · paper
Automates login across thousands of domains using reusable phases and verification loops from credential submission to post-login checks.
thesis signal: Provides strong evidence that production auth automation relies on staged recon+execution logic rather than one-shot prompting.
login automationcredentialsscalabilityverification
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2024 · paper
Systematic discovery and execution of OAuth/SAML login pathways with hybrid visual and semantic detectors.
thesis signal: Shows explicit provider discovery + callback validation is necessary for federated-auth recipes and naturally maps to webctl transitions/oracles.
federated authSSOdetection pipelinetrace validation
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2023 · repo
Reinforcement and human-in-the-loop browser automation with large LLM steering loops.
thesis signal: Useful contrast case: token-heavy runtime models, where webctl aims to reduce run-time token spend via recon-only compilers.
runtime LLMautomationbrowser agent
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2022 · repo
Commercial browser scripting framework with runtime reasoning over DOM states and user interaction tasks.
thesis signal: Useful counterexample for zero-runtime claims: heavy runtime state modeling and retries are treated as first-class execution mechanics.
DOM scriptingruntime orchestrationbrowser
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Graphite HAR Analyzer
RECORD2024 · repo
Browser devtools ecosystem traces and HAR emission used for request sequencing diagnostics.
thesis signal: Ties HAR-derived request topology to deterministic extraction because all transitions are ordered and inspectable from capture.
HARtracingrequest graphnetwork forensics
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