agchk 0.1.1

Audit the architecture and health of any AI agent system or LLM-integrated project

agchk

Audit the architecture and health of any AI agent system or LLM-integrated project.

The base model rarely fails. The wrapper architecture corrupts good answers into bad behavior.

pip install agchk
agchk /path/to/your/agent/project

What It Does

agchk scans any Python/TypeScript/JavaScript codebase for 7 categories of agent architecture failures:

#	Scanner	Severity	What It Catches
1	Hardcoded Secrets	critical	API keys, tokens, credentials in source code
2	Tool Enforcement Gap	high	"Must use tool X" in prompt but no code validation
3	Hidden LLM Calls	high	Secret second-pass LLM calls in fallback/repair loops
4	Unrestricted Code Execution	critical	exec(), eval(), subprocess(shell=True) without sandbox
5	Memory Pattern Issues	medium	Unbounded context growth, missing TTL, no retention policy
6	Output Pipeline Mutation	medium	Response transformation corrupting correct answers
7	Missing Observability	medium	No tracing, logging, or cost tracking

Quick Start

# Install
pip install agchk

# Audit any agent project
agchk /path/to/your/langchain/project

# Generate human-readable report
agchk --report audit_results.json

Python API

from agchk import run_audit, generate_report

# Run full audit
results = run_audit("/path/to/your/agent/project")

# Generate markdown report
markdown = generate_report(results)

# Save to file
generate_report(results, output_file="audit_report.md")

# Validate results against JSON schema
from agchk.schema import validate_report
errors = validate_report(results)

Programmatic Scanner Access

from agchk.scanners import scan_secrets, scan_code_execution
from pathlib import Path

findings = scan_secrets(Path("/path/to/project"))
for f in findings:
    print(f"[{f['severity'].upper()}] {f['title']} at {f['evidence_refs']}")

Example Output

🔍 Agent Architecture Audit
   Target: /Users/me/projects/my-agent
   Started: 2026-04-24 14:32:01

  Scanning: Hardcoded Secrets...
  Scanning: Tool Enforcement Gap...
  Scanning: Hidden LLM Calls...
  Scanning: Unrestricted Code Execution...
  Scanning: Memory Pattern Issues...
  Scanning: Output Pipeline Mutation...
  Scanning: Missing Observability...

──────────────────────────────────────────
✅ Audit complete. Found 5 issues in 0.3s:
   CRITICAL: 1
   HIGH:     2
   MEDIUM:   2
   LOW:      0
   Overall:  critical_risk

📋 Results: audit_results.json
📄 Report: audit_report.md

The 12-Layer Stack

Every agent system has these layers. agchk audits all of them:

#	Layer	What Goes Wrong
1	System prompt	Conflicting instructions, instruction bloat
2	Session history	Stale context from previous turns
3	Long-term memory	Pollution across sessions
4	Distillation	Compressed artifacts re-entering as pseudo-facts
5	Active recall	Redundant re-summary layers wasting context
6	Tool selection	Wrong tool routing, model skips required tools
7	Tool execution	Hallucinated execution — claims to call but doesn't
8	Tool interpretation	Misread or ignored tool output
9	Answer shaping	Format corruption in final response
10	Platform rendering	UI/API/CLI mutates valid answers
11	Hidden repair loops	Silent fallback/retry agents running second LLM pass
12	Persistence	Expired state or cached artifacts reused as live evidence

Fix Strategy

Default fix order (code-first, not prompt-first):

1. Code-gate tool requirements — enforce in code, not just prompt text
2. Remove or narrow hidden repair agents — make fallback explicit with contracts
3. Reduce context duplication — same info through prompt + history + memory + distillation
4. Tighten memory admission — user corrections > agent assertions
5. Tighten distillation triggers — don't compress what shouldn't be compressed
6. Reduce rendering mutation — pass-through, don't transform
7. Convert to typed JSON envelopes — structured internal flow, not freeform prose

Anti-Patterns to Avoid

• ❌ Saying "the model is weak" without falsifying the wrapper first
• ❌ Saying "memory is bad" without showing the contamination path
• ❌ Letting a clean current state erase a dirty historical incident
• ❌ Treating markdown prose as a trustworthy internal protocol
• ❌ Accepting "must use tool" in prompt text when code never enforces it

License

Apache-2.0

Related

• Full production skill: oh-my-agent-check
• Integrated into: Langflow, GenericAgent, superpowers, Everything Claude Code, OpenCode, Anthropic Skills