Security & governance AI agent tools
37 security & governance tools in the AgentScout directory, each with a link-checked listing. Tools that keep agents safe and accountable: guardrails, prompt-injection and MCP scanners, credential brokers, sandbox policies and AI security-operations agents.
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There are 37 security & governance tools: 22 open source, 4 free or freemium, 8 paid, usage-based or enterprise, 3 pricing on the maker's site.
Quick comparison Top 10 of 37 listed below. Pricing as the maker states it; blank means we don't have it.
| Tool | Pricing | Best for | Open source |
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| Open source | Yes | ||
| Freemium | Run code safely | ||
| Open source + cloud | Write code | Yes | |
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| Open source | Yes | ||
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| Paid | Write code | ||
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Wren Pre-sign Check
Wren Pre-sign Check is a pay-per-call x402 API that an AI agent calls before it signs anything with its wallet. Send a transaction (to + data), an EIP-712 typed-data payload or untrusted text, and it returns block, review or allow, the decoded call in plain words and every finding: unlimited approvals, Permit and Permit2 signatures, setApprovalForAll, EIP-7702 delegation, contract deployment and injected instructions. With an optional wren-guard policy (allowlist, spenders, caps) it also blocks unknown recipients, over-cap amounts and lookalike addresses. It is a static check and stores nothing you send; free demos show real output.
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OpenAPPA
OpenAPPA is a deterministic guardrail that sits between an AI agent and its tools and tracks how data flows across tool calls, instead of asking a second model to judge each call. Policies decide whether untrusted or sensitive data may reach a given action, which blocks data exfiltration caused by prompt injection or hallucination while letting agents finish their tasks. It plugs into Claude Code, Pi, OpenCode, kAgent and Archestra, comes with reusable policy "batteries", validation, observability and reporting, and is backed by a NeurIPS workshop paper with published benchmarks. It is in preview as an open RFC.
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Halofy
Halofy is an access and governance layer for a team's AI agents, giving every agent organizational context through one identity and policy model with provenance and audit, alongside a desktop AI workstation that turns power users' agent practices into shared policies.
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HOL Guard
HOL Guard is a free, open-source (Apache-2.0), local-first security layer for AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and GitHub Copilot CLI. On supported integrations it checks risky shell commands, reads of secret-bearing files, package installs and new or changed MCP tools before they run, lets you allow, ask or block each action, and keeps a local record for review. It installs with pipx (hol-guard) and works offline; optional Guard Cloud adds synced approvals, team policy and dashboards.
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Phase
An open-source secrets manager that syncs API keys and environment variables to apps, CI and agents with end-to-end encryption and access control. Free tier, Pro from $10 per user a month, or self-host.
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ThinkWatch Lite
A local gateway that sits between your coding agents and model providers, letting you switch upstreams, redact secrets before they leave your machine, block dangerous tool calls and see the cost of each request.
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Eleven
An agent-first reverse-engineering app for macOS, Windows and Linux: load any app or binary and ask your AI agent what it does while it disassembles and analyzes the code for you.
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open-kritt
A self-hosted AI security research tool that orchestrates agents to hunt for vulnerabilities in a codebase and then validate and rank what they find; managed scans are also offered.
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wren-guard Pro
wren-guard Pro is a TypeScript guard library for AI agents that hold or move funds on Base and other EVM chains (viem, CDP AgentKit, Privy, Eliza and similar stacks). It enforces allowlisted, capped and simulated sends, decodes calldata and signatures to flag unlimited approvals, Permit, Permit2, setApprovalForAll and EIP-7702 delegation, screens for injected instructions and watches nonces. It ships with an 89-scenario attack corpus drawn from public agent wallet incidents and a GitHub Action that fails CI if your agent's policy would let a known attack through. The original Python wren-guard is free and MIT licensed.
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Pragor
Coordination and governance layer for teams of people and AI agents, not an autonomous agent: a shared board with tasks, directed messages, approvals, files and an attributable activity record, where agents connect over REST or project MCP access.
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Infisical
Open-source platform for managing secrets, certificates and privileged access, including scoped credentials for AI agents.
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CyberStrike
Terminal agent for authorized penetration testing that runs recon, vulnerability discovery and reporting with specialized security agents on your own LLM.
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Is My Agent Safe
Is My Agent Safe checks your OpenClaw version and security audit output in plain English, showing which published security fixes you are missing and which breaking changes lie before the latest release; free check, full report $29 one-off.
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Mantis
Google's toolkit for AI coding agents to autonomously find, reproduce and patch software vulnerabilities in isolated environments.
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Agent Vault
Infisical's open-source credential broker that proxies API calls for AI agents so they never hold secrets themselves.
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ADR
Uber's Agentic AI Detection and Response system that secures employee and customer-facing AI agents with observability and threat detection.
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Superagent
SDK for AI agent safety that blocks prompt injections and unsafe tool calls, redacts PII and secrets, and runs red-team scenarios.
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Delve
Compliance automation that uses AI agents to handle SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR busywork.
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Sonatype MCP
Sonatype's dependency-management MCP server that gives coding agents component versions, security analysis and Trust Score recommendations.
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Cisco MCP Scanner
Cisco's open-source scanner that checks MCP servers and tools for malicious or risky behaviour using YARA rules and LLM analysis.
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Dropzone AI
AI SOC analyst agents that investigate security alerts autonomously.
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Guardrails AI
Open-source framework for validating LLM inputs and outputs with configurable guardrails.
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Mindflow
No-code automation and AI agents for security and IT operations.
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Zenity
Security and governance for AI agents across enterprise platforms.
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Simbian
AI agents for security operations, threat hunting and response.
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Prophet Security
Agentic AI SOC analyst that triages and investigates alerts.
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Token Security
Security for non-human and AI agent identities.
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Strix
Open-source AI agents that run penetration tests on your app to find and help fix security vulnerabilities.
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PentAGI
Autonomous multi-agent system for running penetration testing tasks.
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AI-Infra-Guard
Tencent's AI red-teaming platform that scans agents, skills and MCP servers for risks.
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Agent Governance Toolkit
Microsoft toolkit for policy enforcement, identity and sandboxing for AI agents.
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Failproof AI
Observability and policy enforcement for AI agent harnesses.
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Tracecat
Open-source security automation platform for teams and AI agents.
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PentestAgent
Agent framework for black-box security testing and bug bounty work.
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Snyk Agent Scan
Snyk's scanner for security risks in MCP servers and agent skills.
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Almanax
AI security engineer that finds vulnerabilities in applications and smart contracts and reviews pull requests; acquired by depthfirst (June 2026).
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Octane
Agentic security analysis that finds exploitable vulnerabilities in mission-critical code, including DeFi smart contracts.
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Top security & governance repos on GitHub (24)
| Repo | GitHub stars | Licence | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|
| 69,022 | Apache License 2.0 | 2026-10-21 | |
| 30,728 | MIT | 2026-10-09 | |
| 29,863 | — | 2026-10-21 | |
| 7,529 | Apache License 2.0 | 2026-08-26 | |
| 6,887 | Apache License 2.0 | 2026-10-21 | |
| 6,770 | MIT | 2026-08-25 | |
| 6,435 | MIT | 2026-10-21 | |
| 5,560 | MIT | 2026-10-20 | |
| 3,835 | GNU AGPL v3.0 | 2026-10-21 | |
| 3,192 | — | 2026-10-14 | |
| 3,188 | MIT | 2026-09-21 | |
| 3,142 | Apache License 2.0 | 2026-10-21 | |
| 2,459 | — | 2026-10-20 | |
| 2,368 | — | 2026-10-01 | |
| 2,318 | — | 2026-09-15 |
Top 15 of 24 by stars. Stars and licence come from each repo, checked when the listing was last verified.
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