VBDec AI Automation
Author: David Zimmer
Date: 05.18.26 - 9:59pm
VBDec has a feature called "Enable Remote Scripting"
As I have been playing with AI more, I realized this feature
can be used to enable AI automation with a local agent such as Claude Code.
Initially I tested this with the intellisense files i distribute with vbdec, then I decided to upgrade the files with more comprehensive dumps.
The technique is working well. The AI was able to do code searches, build databases, build call graphs, and decompile pcode functions. Each of those tasks would have been a significant feature to build into the tool. With this access, they became prompts.
The technique is also generalizable. A remotely scriptable interface is the natural fit for AI automation, and COM via the ROT is a clean access point.
Tool authors can't anticipate every analysis their users will need. Plugins or internal scripting capabilities open up a lot of possibilities, but a remote scripting surface that a local AI agent can work with is an entirely different class of capability. Its radical openness, and its available to even GUI apps with proper design. In vb6 its essentially free. This is what we should demand of tooling going forward its that useful.
I will have a paper coming out on the Talos blog about it soon. In the mean time, I also added the capability to yara work bench.
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