# FirmPilot: Evidence-Guided Multi-Agent Environment Recovery for IoT Firmware Rehosting

> FirmPilot reconstructs QEMU execution environments through coordinated retrieval, planning, filesystem, persistent-state and network recovery. Proposed changes are applied as constrained artifact deltas, then checked by rerunning the firmware and fixed probes.

- Authors: Yanbing Shen; Fan Zhang; Haitao Xu
- Venue: arXiv
- Status: Preprint
- Publication / posting date: July 16, 2026
- Date source: arXiv first submission date; no separate publication was verified.
- First arXiv submission: July 16, 2026
- arXiv: 2607.14903
- Reviewed arXiv version: v1
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-20
- Added to the catalog: 2026-10-20
- Original paper: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14903>
- PDF: <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.14903v1>
- BibTeX: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/citations/paper-firmpilot.bib>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-firmpilot/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-firmpilot/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/papers/paper-firmpilot/index.md)

## Scope and limitations

The main denominator is 10,033 obtainable LFwC images, not all 10,913 metadata records. Reachability under a 2,400-second budget is not whole-device equivalence; HTTP success can include redirects or authentication gates. Reported results use one LLM backend and fixed probes.

## Why it fits this collection

Uses execution evidence to recover the missing environment needed to inspect firmware behavior.

## Publication and review notes

arXiv v1 as a preprint; its baseline and corpus references are separate works.

## Primary sources

1. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14903v1>
2. <https://arxiv.org/html/2607.14903v1>

## About this entry

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