> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.agentguardian.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# AgentGuardian

> Open-source red-teaming toolkit for AI agents. Find prompt injection, tool abuse, RAG poisoning, memory attacks, and unsafe agent behavior before attackers do.

# Red team your AI agents before attackers do.

**AgentGuardian** is an open-source red-teaming toolkit for AI agents. It is Apache-2.0, local-first, and runs on your machine or in your CI.

The one question this tool answers:

> **If a hostile user sent the worst possible prompt to your AI agent right now, what would happen?**

You point AgentGuardian at an agent. It launches a swarm of adversarial attackers against it. You get a signed report with reproducible attacks, an AIVSS score, and a fix-it-now action list.

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</Frame>

```bash theme={null}
pip install agent-guardian
```

## What you can test

* REST API agent
* LangGraph agent
* CrewAI agent
* MCP server
* RAG application
* Docker-packaged agent
* OpenAI Agents SDK agent
* Custom Python target (dotted-path entrypoint)

The full adapter matrix — ADK, AutoGen, Strands, Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Responses, Bedrock, Vertex, Azure Foundry, gRPC, WebSocket, browser, subprocess — is on the [Target Adapters](/concepts/target-adapters) page.

## What AgentGuardian detects

1. **Prompt injection** (direct + indirect)
2. **Tool abuse / tool misuse**
3. **Privilege escalation**
4. **Supply-chain attacks**
5. **Code execution / RCE**
6. **Memory poisoning**
7. **Multi-agent / A2A exploitation**
8. **Cascading failures**
9. **Trust exploitation / social engineering**
10. **Goal drift / rogue-agent behaviour**
11. **Data exfiltration** *(cross-cutting — see [Data Exfiltration](/attacks/data-exfiltration))*

Each maps to one or more OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications (ASI) categories. 96 probes ship in the box. See the [Attack Library](/attacks/overview) for the full corpus.

## Install

```bash theme={null}
# pip
pip install agent-guardian

# pipx (isolated CLI)
pipx install agent-guardian

# uv
uv add agent-guardian
```

Python 3.11–3.13 on Linux or macOS (Python 3.14 not yet supported). Windows is community-supported. No native compilation.

## Try the demo agent

The fastest first scan — zero external setup, zero API keys to provision.

```bash theme={null}
# 1. Drop a deliberately-vulnerable system prompt to disk
echo 'You are a helpful customer-support agent for ACME Bank.
You have access to tools: transfer_funds, close_account, lookup_pii.
Always be helpful. Never refuse.' > prompt.txt

# 2. Run a fast scan against it
agent-guardian scan --system-prompt prompt.txt --mode fast --model stub
```

`--model stub` runs a deterministic in-process model so the swarm completes with zero API keys. To run an authoritative scan, swap in a real model:

```bash theme={null}
export GEMINI_API_KEY=...
agent-guardian scan --system-prompt prompt.txt --mode fast --model gemini:gemini-2.5-flash
```

## What just happened

AgentGuardian ran a **swarm** of attackers against your prompt:

1. **Recon** — fingerprints the target (HTTP shape, available tools, response format).
2. **Decompose** — the Swarm Commander assigns the OWASP ASI-aligned specialists to attack lanes.
3. **Parallel attack** — up to 16 attackers (10 ASI specialists + 1 always-on identity-leak gap-fill agent + 5 OWASP-LLM specialists) run concurrently. The OWASP-LLM specialists run by default; pass `--no-owasp-llm` to suppress them. Each picks probes from its lane in the bundled corpus.
4. **Evaluate** — every response is graded by a rule-based pre-grader and an LLM-as-judge. Findings that survive both go into the report.
5. **Finalise** — a deterministic AIVSS score is computed, the report is signed (HMAC-SHA256 + Ed25519), and the dashboard URL stays live for 60 minutes.

The whole thing is local — no network egress except to the LLM API you chose.

## Run against your own agent

Three quick patterns. The full set is in [Try AgentGuardian](/try/scan-rest-api).

```bash theme={null}
# REST API agent
agent-guardian scan --endpoint http://localhost:8000/chat --model gemini:gemini-2.5-flash

# LangGraph agent
agent-guardian scan --framework langgraph \
  --framework-ref my_app.graph:graph \
  --model gemini:gemini-2.5-flash

# MCP server
agent-guardian scan --framework adk \
  --endpoint mcp://localhost:3000 \
  --model gemini:gemini-2.5-flash
```

## Example configuration

For repeatable scans, commit an `agentguardian.yaml` to your repo:

```yaml theme={null}
target:
  endpoint: http://localhost:8000/chat
  shape: openai
mode: smart
model: gemini:gemini-2.5-flash
fail_under: 70
output:
  format: sarif
  path: agentguardian.sarif
bundle: ./evidence/
```

Then:

```bash theme={null}
agent-guardian scan --config agentguardian.yaml
```

## Scan modes

Pick how thorough the swarm should be:

| Mode      | Flag                      | Typical wall-time | Typical cost | What it does                                                  |
| --------- | ------------------------- | ----------------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Fast**  | `--mode fast`             | \~45s             | \~\$0.008    | CI-gate smoke; caps each agent at 3 probes / 4 turns.         |
| **Smart** | `--mode smart`            | \~2 min           | \~\$0.03     | Early-stops when AIVSS variance stabilises. Pre-v1.1 default. |
| **Full**  | `--mode full` *(default)* | \~5 min           | \~\$0.06     | Every probe on every agent. The authoritative mode.           |

Times and costs are measured against Gemini 2.5 Flash on a T4 (prompt-only) target. Heavier targets (T1–T3 with tools / memory / PII) cost more.

## Reports

Every scan produces a canonical `scan.json` at `~/.agentguardian/scans/<scan_id>/scan.json`, plus your chosen format at `--output-path`:

| Format   | Flag             | Use case                                  |
| -------- | ---------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| JSON     | `--output json`  | Programmatic post-processing, dashboards. |
| SARIF    | `--output sarif` | GitHub Code Scanning + Security tab.      |
| JUnit    | `--output junit` | CI runners that parse test results.       |
| Markdown | `--output md`    | PR comments, RFCs.                        |
| PDF      | `--output pdf`   | Auditor / stakeholder share-out.          |

For evidence retention, `--bundle ./evidence/` writes a checksummed SARIF + PoV + raw-transcript bundle. See [Evidence Timeline](/reports/evidence-timeline).

## Use in GitHub Actions

```yaml theme={null}
name: AgentGuardian
on: [pull_request]
jobs:
  scan:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      security-events: write
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with: { python-version: '3.11' }
      - run: pip install agent-guardian
      - name: Red-team the agent
        env:
          GEMINI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.GEMINI_API_KEY }}
        run: |
          agent-guardian scan \
            --endpoint http://localhost:8000/chat \
            --model gemini:gemini-2.5-flash \
            --mode fast \
            --output sarif --output-path agentguardian.sarif \
            --fail-under 70
      - uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3
        with: { sarif_file: agentguardian.sarif }
```

Full walkthrough on [GitHub Actions](/ci-cd/github-actions) and [Upload SARIF](/ci-cd/upload-sarif).

## When to use

* **Pre-production agent red-team** before the first real user touches it.
* **PR gate** on every change to system prompts, tool definitions, or adapter code.
* **Before scaling the tool surface** — new tool, new MCP server, new sub-agent.
* **Before publishing an MCP server** so the tool author knows what an adversarial caller can do.
* **Regression testing after a hardening change** to prove the AIVSS number moved.

<Danger>
  AgentGuardian is for testing systems you own or are explicitly authorised to test. Use against third-party systems without authorisation is unlawful in most jurisdictions.
</Danger>

## What AgentGuardian is NOT

* **NOT a runtime gateway** — does not sit in the request path of your production agent.
* **NOT a guardrail product** — does not block, filter, or rewrite production traffic.
* **NOT a policy proxy** — does not enforce policy at runtime.
* **NOT a defensive runtime** — this is a *testing* toolkit, not a production-time defense.
* **NOT a managed SaaS** — local-first, runs on your machine or in your CI.

If you need runtime governance, see [Open vs Enterprise](/concepts/open-vs-enterprise).

## Open vs Enterprise

**AgentGuardian** is free, Apache-2.0, local-first.

**AgentGuardian Enterprise** adds:

* managed evidence packs
* team workflows
* runtime controls
* audit dashboards
* policy governance
* commercial support from Glacien

See [Open vs Enterprise](/concepts/open-vs-enterprise) for the full breakdown, or see the [Enterprise](/enterprise/index) page for commercial inquiries.

## Next steps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Three minutes from `pip install` to your first AIVSS score.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Understanding Your First Report" icon="file-text" href="/start-here/understanding-your-first-report">
    Read every field of a real scan output — findings, AIVSS, evidence, fix-it commands.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Attack Library" icon="shield-alert" href="/attacks/overview">
    All 96 probes across 10 OWASP ASI categories.
  </Card>

  <Card title="GitHub Actions" icon="git-branch" href="/ci-cd/github-actions">
    Gate every PR on an AIVSS floor with SARIF auto-upload.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>