agentguard

AgentGuard

Autonomous security scanner for AI agents. Detects prompt injection, tool abuse, data exfiltration, and OWASP ASI Top 10 vulnerabilities in agent code.

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Why AgentGuard?

AI agents are being deployed at scale -- in coding tools, customer support, trading bots, and autonomous systems. Nobody is scanning their code for security vulnerabilities.

Existing tools (Bandit, Semgrep, CodeQL) scan for traditional vulnerabilities. AgentGuard scans for agent-specific attack vectors that traditional SAST tools miss.

Comparison

Feature	AgentGuard	Semgrep	CodeQL	Bandit
Prompt Injection (ASI01)	Yes + AST taint	No	No	No
Tool Abuse (ASI02)	Yes	No	No	Partial
Data Exfiltration (ASI03)	Yes	No	No	No
Excessive Agency (ASI04)	Yes	No	No	No
Supply Chain (ASI05)	Yes	No	No	No
Insecure Output (ASI06)	Yes	No	No	No
Credential Exposure (ASI07)	Yes	Partial	Partial	Yes
Context Manipulation (ASI08)	Yes	No	No	No
Agent Loop Exploitation (ASI09)	Yes	No	No	No
Trust Boundary (ASI10)	Yes	No	No	No
AST Taint Tracking	Yes	No	No	No
OWASP ASI Top 10 Coverage	10/10	1/10	1/10	2/10
MCP Server Mode	Yes	No	No	No
SARIF Output	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Pre-commit Hook	Yes	Yes	No	No
GitHub Action	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Comparison based on author's assessment of default rule sets (v0.8.1 vs Semgrep OSS v1.x, CodeQL default queries, Bandit v1.7). "Partial" indicates some coverage via general-purpose rules but no agent-specific detection.

Live Demo

See AgentGuard in action on the demo repo. The CI runs AgentGuard on every push, and findings appear in GitHub Code Scanning.

Precision & Validation

AgentGuard's precision has been independently measured:

Metric	Value
Precision (independent sample)	88% (44 TP / 6 FP)
Sample size	50 CONFIRMED findings
Frameworks covered	7 (CAMEL, Qwen-Agent, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, Dify)
Validation method	Manual source code inspection at each reported line
FP filter effectiveness	32 systematic FP patterns eliminated (from 36% to 88%)
License	LGPL v3 — free for individuals and OSS, paid for enterprise

All 6 remaining FPs fixed in v0.8.1 (single pattern: def _update_prompts).

Methodology: 50 findings were randomly sampled from 951 CONFIRMED results, completely disjoint from the development/fix sample. Each finding was verified by reading the actual source code at the reported line with surrounding context.

Roadmap

See ROADMAP.md for the full 2026–2027 roadmap. Current phase: Phase 1 — Prove Technical Value (complete). Next: Phase 2 — Build Audience.

Sovereign Security Audit 2026

AgentGuard was deployed against 7 major AI agent frameworks:

Framework	Files	Findings	CONFIRMED	Risk Score
Dify	2,030	1,687	216	12,570
LlamaIndex	2,951	1,080	294	6,341
CrewAI	1,042	1,317	99	6,392
LangChain	1,831	436	132	2,653
AutoGen	553	696	98	2,696
CAMEL	355	147	62	946
Qwen-Agent	238	242	50	1,325
TOTAL	9,000	5,605	951	32,923

Full report: AUDIT_REPORT_2026.md

AgentGuard is the first and only static analysis tool with dedicated OWASP ASI Top 10 rules. Traditional SAST tools (Semgrep, CodeQL, Bandit) lack agent-specific detection rules -- they were designed for traditional vulnerabilities, not AI agent attack vectors.

Benchmark Dashboard

Security Specification: specification.md — the formal standard for AI agent code security.

Quick Start

pip install dfx-agentguard

# Scan a directory
agentguard .

# JSON output for CI/CD
agentguard src/ --format json

# SARIF for GitHub Code Scanning
agentguard . --format sarif > results.sarif

# Only show HIGH and above
agentguard . --min-severity HIGH

# Include test files in scan
agentguard . --include-tests

CLI Usage

agentguard [OPTIONS] [TARGET]

Arguments:
  TARGET                   Directory or file to scan (default: current directory)

Options:
  --format [text|json|sarif]   Output format (default: text)
  --exit-code / --no-exit-code  Exit non-zero if findings found (default: on)
  --min-severity [CRITICAL|HIGH|MEDIUM|LOW|INFO]  Minimum severity to report
  --include-tests               Include test files in scan (default: skip)
  --no-fp-filter                Disable false positive filtering
  --no-classify                 Disable finding classification
  --auto-report PATH            Generate auto Markdown audit report
  --ci                          CI/CD concise output mode
  --help                        Show help

OWASP ASI Top 10 Coverage

ID	Vulnerability	Status	Detection Method
ASI01	Prompt Injection	Detected	f-string, .format(), messages array, context stuffing, tool description poisoning
ASI02	Tool Abuse / Unintended Tool Use	Detected	os.system, subprocess, shell tools, unrestricted registration
ASI03	Data Exfiltration	Detected	External URLs, variable URL correlation, fetch/axios, subprocess curl, DNS exfil
ASI04	Unauthorized Actions / Excessive Agency	Detected	Auto-execute, no confirmation, autonomous actions
ASI05	Supply Chain / Untrusted Components	Detected	Dynamic import, unpinned deps, untrusted pip install
ASI06	Insecure Output Handling	Detected	LLM output in HTML/JSX/DOM, innerHTML, document.write, markdown.render
ASI07	Credential / Secret Exposure	Detected	API keys (sk-, ghp_, AKIA, AIza, xox), private keys, passwords, connection strings
ASI08	Context Window Manipulation	Detected	Unbounded context, token stuffing, missing limits
ASI09	Agent Loop Exploitation	Detected	Recursive calls without depth limit, while True, no max iterations
ASI10	Trust Boundary Violation	Detected	Root access, host filesystem mounts, no sandbox, self-modification

CI/CD Integration

Docker — Run Anywhere

docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/workspace ghcr.io/dockfixlabs/agentguard .

Works in any CI/CD pipeline. No Python needed.

GitHub Action

name: Security Scan
on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  agentguard:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: '3.12'
      - run: pip install dfx-agentguard
      - run: agentguard . --format sarif > results.sarif
      - uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3
        with:
          sarif_file: results.sarif

Drop-in GitHub Action

- uses: dockfixlabs/agentguard@v0.8.1
  with:
    path: src/
    format: sarif

Pre-commit Hook

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/dockfixlabs/agentguard
    rev: v0.8.1
    hooks:
      - id: agentguard
        args: ["--min-severity", "HIGH"]

Programmatic Usage

from agentguard.scanner import scan_directory

result = scan_directory("src/")

print(f"Found {len(result.findings)} issues")
print(f"Critical: {result.critical_count}")
print(f"High: {result.high_count}")

for finding in result.findings:
    print(f"  [{finding.severity}] {finding.rule_name} at {finding.file}:{finding.line}")

MCP Server Mode

Scan agent code directly from Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentguard": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["-m", "agentguard.mcp_server"]
    }
  }
}

Then ask Claude: "Scan my agent code for security vulnerabilities"

Benchmark Results

Tested against 28 vulnerable code samples + 8 real-world attack patterns:

Category      Total   Detected     Coverage
ASI01             6          6    Covered
ASI02             5          5    Covered
ASI03             4          4     Covered
ASI07             6          6     Covered
ASI10             5          5     Covered
clean             2          0    Verified clean
TOTAL            28         26    —

The complete benchmark suite contains 56 hand-crafted samples covering all detection rules.

Project Ecosystem

Repository	Description
agentguard	Core scanner + CLI + MCP server
mcp-scanner	MCP server configuration scanner
agentguard-app	GitHub App for automated PR reviews
agentguard-vscode	VS Code extension
agentguard-benchmark	Benchmark suite (56 samples)

Roadmap

• OWASP ASI Top 10 -- all 10 categories covered
• MCP server mode -- scan from Claude Code/Cursor
• SARIF output -- GitHub Code Scanning integration
• PyPI publication -- dfx-agentguard
• VS Code extension
• GitHub App for PR reviews
• Benchmark suite (28 samples, covering all detection rules)
• Pre-commit hook (.pre-commit-hooks.yaml)
• GitHub Action (action.yml)
• Dockerfile for agentguard-app
• PyPI Trusted Publishing (OIDC)
• AST-based taint tracking (v0.5.0) -- traces source-to-sink data flow
• Language support: Rust, Go, Java
• Web dashboard (SaaS)
• REST API (Scan-as-a-Service)

See the full ROADMAP.md.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. Bug reports and feature requests welcome.

Security

See SECURITY.md. Report vulnerabilities privately -- do not open public issues.

License

LGPL v3 -- see LICENSE. AI agent SAST is a new category. The LGPL ensures the core remains open while protecting against cloud vendor appropriation (learned from Bandit's Apache 2.0 → $0 revenue path).

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Built by Dockfix Labs. Built for the AI agent era.

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AgentGuard Ecosystem

AgentGuard is the core security scanner. Companion tools:

Tool	Purpose	Install
agentguard	AI agent code security scanner	pip install dfx-agentguard
mcp-scanner	MCP server security audit	pip install dfx-mcp-scanner
agentguard-app	GitHub App for PR reviews	Install from Marketplace
agentguard-vscode	VS Code inline diagnostics	Install from VS Code
agentguard-benchmark	Detection benchmark suite	git clone
agentguard-demo	Live demo with Code Scanning	git clone

22 detection rules | 139 tests | 28 benchmark samples | OWASP ASI Top 10 | 88% precision GitHub Action: dockfixlabs/agentguard@v1