agent-guardian 1.0.0rc21

Open-source red teaming toolkit for AI agents, RAG systems, MCP servers, and tool-using LLM applications.

AgentGuardian

Red-team your AI agents before attackers do.

Docs · Quickstart · Try the demo agent · Attack library · CI/CD · Sample report

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AgentGuardian is an open-source red-teaming toolkit for AI agents. It scans your agent, maps the attack surface, runs the relevant adversarial agents, and generates evidence-backed findings for you to review — and fix the vulnerabilities before they reach production.

Quickstart

Requires Python 3.11–3.13.

1. Install

pip install agent-guardian

or

uv tool install agent-guardian

2. Add a model key

AgentGuardian drives its attacks with an LLM — Gemini, OpenAI, or Anthropic:

export GEMINI_API_KEY=...        # or OPENAI_API_KEY / ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

See the configuration guide for all providers and options.

3. Check your setup

agent-guardian doctor

4. Run your first scan

No agent of your own yet? Point it at the hosted demo target — a deliberately vulnerable "finbot" banking agent:

agent-guardian scan \
  --endpoint https://agent-guardian-testbench-u6tm6gzysq-uc.a.run.app/finbot/chat \
  --model gemini:gemini-3.5-flash \
  --mode fast

To scan your own agent, swap --endpoint for your target — local, staging, or production, any environment works as long as the endpoint is reachable.

5. Review the findings

AgentGuardian opens a live dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:7474 — watch findings land in real time, browse transcripts and evidence, and export reports.

Scan targets

HTTP agent

agent-guardian scan \
  --endpoint http://localhost:8000/chat \
  --model gemini:gemini-3.5-flash \
  --mode smart

System prompt

agent-guardian scan \
  --system-prompt ./prompts/customer-support-agent.txt \
  --model gemini:gemini-3.5-flash \
  --mode fast

In-process Python agent

agent-guardian scan my_app.agent:agent \
  --model gemini:gemini-3.5-flash \
  --mode smart

Point AgentGuardian at any importable Python callable or agent object (module:attr) and it runs in-process — useful for pre-deploy and CI, with nothing to host.

What AgentGuardian catches

AgentGuardian tests agentic risks that normal prompt scanners miss:

• Prompt injection and goal hijack
• Unsafe tool calls and tool chaining
• Privilege abuse
• RAG poisoning and indirect prompt injection
• Memory and context poisoning
• Sensitive data leakage
• Agent-to-agent manipulation
• Cascading failures
• Trust exploitation and unsafe outputs
• Goal drift and untraceable behavior

Every probe maps to OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, MITRE ATLAS, and the CSA Agentic AI Red Teaming Guide — full per-ASI breakdown in the framework-coverage-matrix.

Reports & evidence

Every scan writes a signed, verifiable evidence bundle to ~/.agentguardian/scans/<scan-id>/:

Artifact	What it is
scan.json	Machine-readable findings, signed (HMAC-SHA256 + Ed25519)
events.jsonl	The scan timeline
probe/	Per-probe requests, responses, verdicts, and evidence
forensic_manifest.json	Integrity manifest for the bundle

Export in any format, any time:

agent-guardian report SCAN_ID --output pdf --output-path report.pdf

Formats: json · sarif · junit · md · gitlab · pdf — see the sample report. Verify stored evidence with agent-guardian verify.

Scan modes

• fast — quick local feedback
• smart — broader coverage for development and pull requests
• full — release gates and audit evidence

Use full when you need AIVSS-scored findings for CI/CD gates.

Commands

Command	What it does
agent-guardian scan	Run an adversarial swarm scan against a target
agent-guardian report <id> --output FMT	Regenerate a report — json · sarif · junit · md · gitlab · pdf · badge
agent-guardian gate <id> --fail-under N	Apply pass/fail thresholds to a stored scan (CI exit codes)
agent-guardian serve	Start the local dashboard
agent-guardian scans list / delete	List or delete stored scans (delete --older-than 30d for bulk cleanup)
agent-guardian config show / init	Inspect the effective config / scaffold a config file
agent-guardian verify <report>	Verify the HMAC-SHA256 + Ed25519 signatures on a report
agent-guardian last-score	Print the AIVSS of the most recent scan
agent-guardian doctor	Verify the install, provider keys, and prerequisites
agent-guardian version	Print the installed version

Run any command with --help, or see the CLI reference.

Run with Docker

docker build -t agent-guardian .

docker run --rm \
  -e GEMINI_API_KEY \
  -v "$HOME/.agentguardian:/root/.agentguardian" \
  -p 7474:7474 \
  agent-guardian scan \
    --endpoint https://agent-guardian-testbench-u6tm6gzysq-uc.a.run.app/finbot/chat \
    --model gemini:gemini-3.5-flash \
    --mode fast

CI/CD with GitHub Actions

The shipped composite action runs a scan, uploads SARIF to GitHub Code Scanning, and (optionally) posts a summary comment on the pull request:

name: AgentGuardian

on:
  pull_request:
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  red-team:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
      security-events: write   # upload SARIF to Code Scanning
      pull-requests: write     # post the summary comment
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - uses: glacien-technologies/agent-guardian/.github/actions/agentguardian-scan@v1
        with:
          endpoint: http://localhost:8000/chat
          model: gemini:gemini-3.5-flash
          mode: full
          fail-under: "80"
          max-critical: "0"
          comment: "true"
        env:
          GEMINI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.GEMINI_API_KEY }}

The job fails when the gate (fail-under / max-critical) is breached. For GitLab, Bitbucket, raw-CLI, and fleet/nightly setups, see the CI/CD guides.

Run from source

git clone https://github.com/glacien-technologies/agent-guardian.git
cd agent-guardian

python3.11 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

pip install -e ".[dev]"

agent-guardian doctor

Contributing

We welcome new probes, new adapters, and new attacker logic. Start with the contribution guide and the good first issue label.

All commits must be DCO-signed:

git commit -s

By participating you agree to CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md and the ethics policy. AgentGuardian is for testing systems you own or are explicitly authorised to test.

Community

Join us on Discord for quickstart help, probe design, adapter questions, and roadmap discussion.

Security

To report a vulnerability, see SECURITY.md. Do not open public issues for security reports.

License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE and NOTICE.

AgentGuardian is a trademark of Glacien Technologies. See TRADEMARKS.md for usage guidelines.