New Feature: Developer Feedback Loop

Transform developer dismissals into living AI rules and intelligence.

In traditional security tooling, a developer dismisses a finding. Nothing happens.

Then during the next scan, the same finding appears. The developer dismisses it again. And again.

And every new developer who joins has to learn the same thing: that this particular rule doesn’t apply to us, for whatever reason, in such and such repos. Ad infinitum.

But now with Arnica, you can tap into AI SAST that learns what your engineering teams already know. Findings that have been dismissed repeatedly because they don't apply to your architecture, your controls, or your codebase will stop appearing. Developers will stop dismissing the same alert for the hundredth time.

Put Tribal Knowledge to Work at Scale

Every scanner can flag a finding. Only Arnica can learn from the fact that your team has already dismissed the same finding 47 times, and puts the security operator in the driver’s seat to choose which cases enter the policy ruleset.

Each time a developer dismisses a SAST finding and explains why, Arnica captures that knowledge to provide suggested AI prompts and rules so the same finding never resurfaces unnecessarily again.

Stop flagging unnecessary findings automatically, permanently, and with your developers' own reasoning encoded into the rule. Then, easily apply that rule to across your organization with 100% coverage and adoption.

How Developer Feedback Loop Works

Arnica’s Developer Feedback Loop operates in four stages:

• ‍Dismissal with context. A developer dismisses a SAST finding in a PR or via Slack or Microsoft Teams and provides a reason. For example: "SSRF is not exploitable; we have domain allow-list controls outside of the repo."‍
• Capture and accumulation. Arnica logs the dismissal, the finding, the developer's reasoning, and the associated product. This builds a history of dismissed findings over time.‍
• Analysis and rule generation. When an operator runs Developer Feedback Loop, Arnica's AI analyzes the historical dismissals and generates new AI SAST rules. For example: "Do not flag SSRF findings when the application implements domain allow lists or other compensating controls." Each result includes a confidence score,a product scope, and a full diff of the proposed prompt change.‍
• Review, edit, and save. The operator reviews the generated rules, can edit them before accepting, and saves them to specific products. On every future scan, those rules are baked into the AI SAST prompt. The finding no longer appears.

Keep AppSec in the Loop

Arnica does not silently apply changes. The AppSec team reviews every generated rule before it’s saved. This is intentional: your team has authority over what the AI learns. Arnica surfaces the pattern; humans make the call. This is what separates this feature from black-box suppression. It’s transparent, auditable, and editable.

• ‍For Developers - Developers finally see their feedback matter. The alert that has been dismissed 30 times disappears automatically. New team members don’t have to learn the quirks of your codebase the hard way. The signal they get from Arnica’s AI SAST findings is one they can trust, because it has been shaped by people who know the system: themselves.‍
• For Security and Engineering Leaders - You get the accumulated security judgment of your engineering team, encoded in your scanner. False positive fatigue drops. Real findings are no longer buried in noise. Your AI security posture improves everytime a developer provides a dismissal, not just for them, but for everyone, and for every future scan.‍
• For the Organization - Institutional knowledge stops walking out the door. When a veteran engineer leaves, their understanding of why certain rules do not apply to your architecture stays behind, encoded in the system. Onboarding a new developer does not mean re-explaining every nuance of your security posture. Arnica already knows.

More Than Noise Reduction

This isn’t just noise reduction. This is organizational knowledge, formalized.

The feedback your developers have always given but that tools have always ignored now directly shapes what the AI looks for on the next scan. Benefit from the accumulated wisdom of your engineering team, captured and applied at machine speed.

Developer Feedback Loop is now available as part of Arnica AI SAST. Contact us to learn more.

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