agentsentinel-cli 0.5.2

Security scanner, red-team tool, and agent intelligence CLI — inspect, probe, MCP audit, and discovery for AI agents

agentsentinel-cli

Security scanner, red-team tool, and MCP auditor for AI agents. No server, no Docker, no setup.

pipx install "agentsentinel-cli[all]"
sentinel inspect my_agent.py                  # what is this agent? plain English
sentinel scan my_agent.py                     # posture audit
sentinel probe http://localhost:3000          # 42-payload attack battery
sentinel ai-probe http://localhost:3000       # Claude-driven autonomous red-team
sentinel mcp scan http://localhost:3001       # MCP server security audit

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Install

# Recommended — isolated, no venv required
pipx install "agentsentinel-cli[all]"

# Or with pip
pip install agentsentinel-cli                  # sentinel scan (zero deps)

pip install "agentsentinel-cli[discover]"      # + sentinel discover
pip install "agentsentinel-cli[mcp]"           # + sentinel mcp scan
pip install "agentsentinel-cli[probe]"         # + sentinel probe
pip install "agentsentinel-cli[ai-probe]"      # + sentinel ai-probe (needs ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)
pip install "agentsentinel-cli[all]"           # everything

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Three security dimensions

Dimension	Command	What it does
Intelligence — what is it?	sentinel inspect	Fingerprint, plain English summary, data flows, trust score
Posture — what can it do?	sentinel scan	Static AST analysis, 12 rules, CI gate
Posture — what's running?	sentinel discover	Find unknown agents in processes, containers, subnets
Posture — MCP exposure?	sentinel mcp scan	Enumerate and audit any MCP server
Vulnerability — static	sentinel probe	42-payload attack battery, no API key required
Vulnerability — AI-driven	sentinel ai-probe	Claude Opus as autonomous red-team agent

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Commands

sentinel inspect — what is this agent?

Answers the question every security team asks first: "What does this thing actually do?" Fingerprints the agent's framework, model, deployment, and cloud provider. Infers data flows from tool analysis. With ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set, generates a plain English description using Claude.

# Inspect a single file
sentinel inspect my_agent.py

# Inspect all agents in a directory
sentinel inspect ./agents/

# Inspect a live HTTP endpoint
sentinel inspect http://localhost:3000

# JSON output (for SIEM or dashboards)
sentinel inspect my_agent.py --format json

# Skip AI summary (no API key needed)
sentinel inspect my_agent.py --no-ai

What it surfaces:

Section	Details
Function	Plain English: what the agent does, what it accesses, key risk
Fingerprint	Framework, model, Python version, deployment, cloud, system prompt
Capabilities	All tools with scope, category, and severity rating
Data flows	Where data comes from and where it goes
Findings	Posture rule violations (same engine as sentinel scan)
Trust score	0–100 composite score with status label

Works on file paths without any API key. Claude summary auto-activates when ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is present.

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sentinel scan — audit an agent file

Detects exfiltration paths, dangerous grants, hardcoded credentials, and more from static analysis of Python agent files.

# Scan a single file
sentinel scan my_agent.py

# Scan a directory recursively
sentinel scan ./agents/

# Fail with exit code 1 if CRITICAL findings exist (for CI)
sentinel scan my_agent.py --fail-on CRITICAL

# JSON output (for piping into other tools)
sentinel scan my_agent.py --format json

# Include live behavior data from a running AgentSentinel instance
sentinel scan my_agent.py --connect http://localhost:9000

What it detects:

Rule	Severity	Description
EXFILTRATION_PATH	CRITICAL	Agent holds internal-read AND external-write grants
CODE_EXECUTION_GRANT	CRITICAL	Agent holds bash/exec/shell grants
HARDCODED_CREDENTIALS	CRITICAL	API keys or secrets hardcoded in source
SECRETS_ACCESS_GRANT	HIGH	Agent holds runtime access to vaults or tokens
PROMPT_INJECTION_VECTOR	HIGH	Agent reads from web AND holds write grants
LATERAL_MOVEMENT_PATH	HIGH	Admin/IAM grants combined with infrastructure grants
UNBOUNDED_FILE_ACCESS	HIGH	Filesystem write grants with no scoped description
PRIVILEGE_EXCESS	HIGH	Write grants on a read-only described agent
DANGEROUS_GRANTS	HIGH	Agent holds dangerous tool grants
TOOL_SPRAWL	MEDIUM	Too many tools across too many categories
UNDESCRIBED_WRITE_AGENT	MEDIUM	Write grants with no agent description
MISSING_RATE_LIMIT	LOW	Dangerous grants without rate limit configuration

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sentinel probe — static red-team battery

Fires 42 attack payloads across 5 categories against any HTTP agent endpoint. No API key required. Ideal for CI/CD gates and quick sanity checks.

# Run all 42 attacks
sentinel probe http://localhost:3000

# Run specific attack categories
sentinel probe http://localhost:3000 --attacks injection,jailbreak

# Custom field names (auto-detected by default)
sentinel probe http://localhost:3000 --input-field query --output-field answer

# Add auth header
sentinel probe http://localhost:3000 --auth-header "Authorization: Bearer token"

# JSON output
sentinel probe http://localhost:3000 --format json

# Fail CI if hit rate exceeds threshold
sentinel probe http://localhost:3000 --fail-on 0.1

Attack categories:

Category	Payloads	Description
injection	10	Classic prompt override, authority injection, nested context
jailbreak	12	DAN, persona adoption, fictional framing, developer mode
extraction	8	System prompt leakage, verbatim repeat, sentence completion
encoding	6	Base64, ROT13, unicode homoglyph, whitespace injection
context	6	Few-shot manipulation, false anchoring, semantic satiation

Auto-detects OpenAI-compatible (/v1/chat/completions) vs custom field format on first request.

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sentinel ai-probe — Claude-driven autonomous red-team

Unleashes Claude Opus as an autonomous security researcher against your agent endpoint. Claude forms its own threat model, crafts targeted attacks, escalates on partial success, and documents findings with OWASP LLM Top 10 mappings.

# Requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in environment
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

# Run with default settings (20 probes)
sentinel ai-probe http://localhost:3000

# Provide agent context for better targeting
sentinel ai-probe http://localhost:3000 \
  --context "Customer service chatbot for a fintech company"

# Increase probe depth
sentinel ai-probe http://localhost:3000 --max-probes 50

# JSON output for downstream tooling
sentinel ai-probe http://localhost:3000 --format json

Claude autonomously executes a 5-phase methodology: Reconnaissance → Threat Modelling → Targeted Attacks → Escalation → Documentation. Every finding includes severity, OWASP category, and evidence.

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sentinel mcp scan — audit an MCP server

Connects to any MCP server, enumerates all exposed tools, and checks for authentication gaps, exfiltration paths, code execution exposure, and input validation weaknesses.

# Scan an HTTP MCP server
sentinel mcp scan http://localhost:3001

# Scan with authentication
sentinel mcp scan http://localhost:3001 --auth-header "Authorization: Bearer token"

# Scan a stdio-transport server (launch as subprocess)
sentinel mcp scan --stdio "python my_mcp_server.py"

# JSON output for CI pipelines
sentinel mcp scan http://localhost:3001 --format json

# Fail CI on CRITICAL findings
sentinel mcp scan http://localhost:3001 --fail-on CRITICAL

What it detects:

Rule	Severity	Description
NO_AUTH	CRITICAL	Server accepts tool enumeration with no credentials (HTTP)
UNAUTH_DANGEROUS_EXEC	CRITICAL	Dangerous tools callable without authentication (HTTP)
EXFILTRATION_PATH	CRITICAL	Server exposes internal-read AND external-write tools
CODE_EXECUTION_TOOL	CRITICAL	Server exposes code execution tools
UNBOUNDED_INPUT	HIGH	Tools accept unconstrained string inputs — injection surface
TOOL_SPRAWL	MEDIUM	Excessive tool count or category breadth
VAGUE_TOOL_DESCRIPTIONS	MEDIUM	Short/missing descriptions expand injection surface
MISSING_RATE_LIMIT	LOW	Dangerous tools present with no visible rate limiting

See docs/mcp-scan-testing.md for test server examples that trigger every finding.

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sentinel discover — find AI agents in your environment

sentinel discover                        # scan processes + network
sentinel discover --docker               # include Docker containers
sentinel discover --path ./agents        # scan a source directory
sentinel discover --subnet 10.0.0.0/24   # scan an internal subnet
sentinel discover --format json          # machine-readable output

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OWASP LLM Top 10 coverage

OWASP LLM	sentinel command
LLM01 Prompt Injection	sentinel probe, sentinel ai-probe
LLM02 Sensitive Info Disclosure	sentinel probe (extraction category)
LLM06 Excessive Agency	sentinel scan, sentinel discover
LLM07 System Prompt Leakage	sentinel probe (extraction), sentinel ai-probe
LLM08 Vector/Embedding Weaknesses	sentinel mcp scan

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CI/CD integration

# .github/workflows/security.yml
- name: Audit agent posture
  run: |
    pip install agentsentinel-cli
    sentinel scan ./agents/ --fail-on CRITICAL

- name: Probe agent endpoint
  run: |
    pip install "agentsentinel-cli[probe]"
    sentinel probe http://localhost:3000 --fail-on 0.2

- name: Audit MCP server
  run: |
    pip install "agentsentinel-cli[mcp]"
    sentinel mcp scan http://localhost:3001 --fail-on CRITICAL

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Tool detection (sentinel scan)

The scanner detects tools defined via:

• @tool decorator (LangChain)
• @SentinelTool decorator (AgentSentinel middleware)
• BaseTool / StructuredTool subclasses
• Tool(name=...) and StructuredTool(name=...) instantiations

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Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• No API key required for sentinel scan, sentinel inspect --no-ai, sentinel probe
• ANTHROPIC_API_KEY required for AI summary (sentinel inspect), sentinel ai-probe
• httpx required for live endpoint inspection: pip install "agentsentinel-cli[inspect]"
• httpx required for HTTP MCP scanning: pip install "agentsentinel-cli[mcp]"
• psutil + httpx required for sentinel discover: pip install "agentsentinel-cli[discover]"
• httpx + anthropic required for sentinel ai-probe: pip install "agentsentinel-cli[ai-probe]"