arascan 0.2.0

Zero-config, fully local static security analyzer for AI agents

🛡️ Agent Risk Analyzer (ARA)

Zero-config, fully local static security scanner for AI agents.

ARA detects 20 vulnerability categories across LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, and MCP agent projects — no API keys, no cloud, no LLM required.

$ ara scan ./my-agent

──────────────────────────── Agent Risk Analyzer ────────────────────────────
  Target:  /path/to/my-agent
  Files:   3 scanned  |  Duration: 0.04s  |  Framework: langchain

  Grade   Score   🔴 Critical   🟠 High   🟡 Medium   ⚪ Low   Total
    F      116         6            9          3          5       23

╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Grade F  Score: 116  —  Unsafe for production — critical issues must be     │
│ fixed immediately.                                                           │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

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✨ Features

• 🔒 Fully local — no data leaves your machine, no API keys needed
• ⚡ Zero config — point at a directory, get a graded report
• 🎯 20 vulnerability rules mapped to MITRE ATLAS and OWASP LLM Top 10 2025
• 🧠 AST + regex — two-tier detection with CONFIRMED / SUSPECTED confidence levels
• 📊 A–F grading — weighted severity scoring for instant risk posture
• 🔌 Multi-format output — terminal (Rich), JSON, Markdown
• 🤖 CI/CD ready — --ci flag returns exit code 1 on findings

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📦 Installation

pip install arascan

Requires Python 3.11+

For development:

git clone https://github.com/Prnvlol/agent-risk-analyzer.git
cd agent-risk-analyzer
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"

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🚀 Usage

Basic scan

ara scan ./my-agent-project

JSON report (for CI pipelines)

ara scan ./my-agent --format json --output report.json

Markdown report

ara scan ./my-agent --format markdown --output report.md

CI mode (fail on findings)

ara scan ./my-agent --ci --min-severity HIGH

Filter options

# Only show CONFIRMED findings (hide heuristic checks)
ara scan ./my-agent --no-suspected

# Disable specific rules
ara scan ./my-agent --disable VULN-017,VULN-019

# Set minimum severity threshold
ara scan ./my-agent --min-severity MEDIUM

List all rules

ara list-rules

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🎯 What ARA Detects

ID	Vulnerability	Severity	ATLAS	OWASP
VULN-001	Direct Prompt Injection	CRITICAL	AML.T0051.000	LLM01
VULN-002	Indirect Prompt Injection	CRITICAL	AML.T0051.001	LLM01
VULN-003	Unrestricted Code Execution	CRITICAL	AML.T0050	LLM06
VULN-005	Over-Permissioned Tools	HIGH	AML.T0053	LLM06
VULN-006	Unbounded Agent Autonomy	HIGH	AML.T0053	LLM06
VULN-007	Tool Result Poisoning	HIGH	AML.T0097	LLM06
VULN-008	Memory / Context Poisoning	HIGH	AML.T0087	LLM04
VULN-009	Insecure MCP Configuration	HIGH	AML.T0088	LLM03
VULN-010	System Prompt Leakage	HIGH	AML.T0056.001	LLM07
VULN-011	Insecure Tool Input	MEDIUM	AML.T0053	LLM06
VULN-012	Sensitive Data in Logs	HIGH	AML.T0048	LLM02
VULN-013	Missing Rate Limiting	MEDIUM	AML.T0054	LLM10
VULN-014	Hardcoded Credentials	MEDIUM	AML.T0037	LLM02
VULN-015	Insecure Multi-Agent Trust	MEDIUM	AML.T0087	LLM06
VULN-016	Verbose Error Messages	LOW	AML.T0048	LLM02
VULN-017	Missing Output Filtering	LOW	AML.T0048	LLM05
VULN-018	Missing Human-in-the-Loop	LOW	AML.T0053	LLM06
VULN-019	Unversioned Prompts	LOW	AML.T0088	LLM07
VULN-020	Third-Party Plugin Risk	LOW	AML.T0010.003	LLM03

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📊 Grading System

Findings are scored by severity weight, then mapped to a letter grade:

Weight	Severity
10	CRITICAL
5	HIGH
2	MEDIUM
1	LOW

Grade	Score Range	Meaning
A	0	No findings
B	1 – 5	Minor issues
C	6 – 15	Needs attention
D	16 – 30	Significant risk
F	31+	Unsafe for production

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🏗️ Architecture

src/
├── cli.py               # Typer CLI (scan, list-rules, version)
├── scanner.py           # File discovery, AST parsing, detector dispatch
├── models.py            # Pydantic models (Finding, ScanResult, grades)
├── report.py            # Rich terminal, JSON, Markdown renderers
└── detectors/
    ├── base.py          # BaseDetector ABC + ScanContext
    ├── credentials.py   # VULN-014: hardcoded secrets (15 regex patterns)
    ├── code_execution.py    # VULN-003: exec/eval/subprocess (AST)
    ├── prompt_injection.py  # VULN-001/002/010/017/019
    ├── tool_permissions.py  # VULN-005/007/011/018/020
    ├── mcp_config.py    # VULN-009: MCP misconfigurations
    ├── multi_agent.py   # VULN-006/008/015
    ├── framework_specific.py  # VULN-003/006/015/020: LangChain/CrewAI/AutoGen
    ├── logging_detector.py  # VULN-012/016
    └── rate_limiting.py     # VULN-013

0.2.0 framework coverage:

• LangChain — unsafe FAISS deserialization and explicit unbounded agent loops
• CrewAI — unsafe code execution and delegation without runtime boundaries
• AutoGen — unsandboxed code execution and explicit unbounded group chat rounds

Design principles:

• No LLM dependency — all detection is deterministic (AST + regex)
• Two-tier confidence — CONFIRMED (pattern exists verbatim) vs SUSPECTED (absence-of-safeguard heuristic)
• Single-pass scan — files read once into ScanContext, shared across all detectors
• Fail-safe detectors — a crashing detector never stops the scan

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🧪 Development

# Install dev dependencies
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run tests
pytest

# Run with coverage
pytest --cov=src --cov-report=term-missing

# Lint
ruff check src/ tests/

# Type check
mypy src/

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📋 Exit Codes

Code	Meaning
0	Scan completed (no findings, or non-CI mode)
1	Findings detected (CI mode only)
2	Error (bad arguments, scan failure)

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🗺️ Roadmap

• Framework-specific detectors — LangChain, CrewAI, and AutoGen security patterns
• --deep mode — optional local LLM analysis via Ollama for semantic prompt review
• GitHub Actions workflow — pre-built CI action
• PyPI release — pip install arascan
• VS Code extension — inline findings in the editor

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🔗 Related

Tool	What it does
ARA (this)	Static scanner — find vulnerabilities before deployment
parry-ai	Runtime guardrail — block threats while your agent is running

Use ARA to find the issues. Use parry to fix them at runtime.

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🤝 Community

• Contributing — setup, checks, detector guidelines, and pull request expectations
• Security policy — private vulnerability reporting process
• Issues — bug reports, rule requests, and framework support requests

ARA is early alpha. Reports with minimal vulnerable examples are especially useful: false negatives, false positives, framework-specific patterns, and CI/reporting friction all help shape the roadmap.

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📄 License

MIT

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Built with 🐍 Python — no clouds, no APIs, no excuses.