Developer Feedback Loop

Your developers already know which alerts don't matter. Now your scanner does too. Developer Feedback Loop turns every dismissal into a potential rule. Now the noise stops, the signal improves, and everything your team knows gets captured and applied.

The Challenges with Traditional Developer Feedback

Dismissed Findings Don't Go Anywhere

When a developer dismisses a security alert in traditional tooling, that context disappears, and the same finding resurfaces on the next scan, and the one after that, forcing developers to re-dismiss it indefinitely.

Institutional Knowledge is Trapped

Every time an engineer explains why a rule doesn't apply to your architecture, that reasoning stays invisible to the scanner. When that person leaves, so does their understanding.

Alert Fatigue Drowns Out Real Risks

When developers spend their time dismissing the same irrelevant findings over and over, genuine vulnerabilities get buried in the noise, and trust in security tooling erodes with every false positive.

New Team Members Are Slow to Ramp

When new developers join your team, they have to rediscover every nuance of your security posture from scratch. This takes time and can lead to even more risk from day one.

Turn Developer Feedback Into Security Intelligence

Built for Trust and AI Learning

AppSec stays in control of everything the AI learns.

• Your Team Makes the Rules
  Every rule generated by Arnica's AI is surfaced for human review before it's applied; your team decides what the scanner learns, not an algorithm.
• Fully Editable and Customizable
  Rules are fully editable before saving, so security operators can refine the AI's reasoning rather than accept it wholesale.
• Audit-Ready for Compliance
  Every accepted rule is auditable and traceable back to the dismissals that generated it, giving you a clear record of why findings were removed.
• Transparent Security Posture Management
  This is the difference between intelligent suppression and silent suppression; your security posture improves transparently, with your team's authority intact.

Developer-Native Feedback Loop

Turn Dismissals into Durable Intelligence

Our AI SAST engine actively learns from developer dismissals; Arnica turns teams' feedback into policies with workflows that actually work.

• Developer Dismissals are Captured
  A developer dismisses a SAST finding and provides a reason: for example, that SSRF isn't exploitable because domain allow-list controls exist outside the repo.
• Arnica Keeps Track of Dismissal Reasons
  Arnica logs the dismissal, the reasoning, and the context, building a history of how your team actually interprets findings over time.
• New SAST Rules Are Created from Developer Feedback
  When an operator runs Feedback Loop Intelligence, Arnica's AI analyzes that history and generates new SAST rules with confidence scores, product scope, and a full diff of the proposed change.
• AppSec Teams Level Up Security Rules
  The AppSec team reviews, edits if needed, and saves the rule so every future scan reflects your team's collective judgment, not a black box.

FAQ

1. What is the Developer Feedback Loop?
   It's an AI-powered feature in Arnica AI SAST that analyzes your team's historical finding dismissals and generates new AI SAST rules from them — so the same findings stop resurfacing.

2. How is Developer Feedback Loop different from suppressing findings?
   Suppression is silent and unauditable. The Developer Feedback Loop surfaces the pattern, generates a specific rule with a confidence score and full diff, and requires an operator to review and approve before anything changes. Every rule is transparent and editable.

3. Does Developer Feedback Loop run automatically?
   No. An operator manually triggers the analysis, reviews the generated rule suggestions, edits if needed, and saves them to specific products. Arnica surfaces the intelligence; humans make the call.

4. What data does it use?
   It analyzes dismissals within a configurable lookback window (e.g., 30, 90, 365 days), along with the developer's dismissal reason, the finding type, and the associated product.

5. What happens after a rule is saved?
   On every future AI SAST scan, the approved rule is baked into the prompt. The finding no longer appears for that product.

6. Who benefits from Developer Feedback Loop?
   Developers stop seeing the same irrelevant alerts. AppSec teams get a cleaner signal with less noise. And when engineers leave, their knowledge of why certain rules don't apply stays in the system.

7. Does this work for AI-generated code too?
   Yes — Arnica AI SAST is code origin agnostic. The feedback loop applies to findings regardless of whether the code was written by a human or an AI coding agent.

8. Is this feature available now?
   Yes. Developer Feedback Loop is available as part of Arnica AI SAST.