stacktrace-cli

Detection and response for AI coding agents, from the command line.

Coding agents read files, run shell commands and call MCP servers on their own initiative, and they write a transcript of every bit of it to disk. stacktrace reads those transcripts, correlates what ran against the components the agent is built from, and reports the security and reliability findings in it — locally, on the machine the agent worked on.

The PyPI distribution is stacktrace-cli; the command it installs is stacktrace. The two names differ because the bare stacktrace name on PyPI belongs to an unrelated project.

Installation

uv tool install stacktrace-cli     # isolated; recommended
# or
pip install stacktrace-cli

Requires Python 3.11 or newer.

$ stacktrace --version
stacktrace 0.2.1 (openaca 0.6.0)

Quick start

stacktrace sessions      # what the agents on this machine did
stacktrace detect        # what is wrong with it
stacktrace monitor       # the same, live in a browser

Commands

The last three are composition analysis, supplied by openaca and available under either name.

What it looks like

$ stacktrace sessions --since 2d --include-content
claude-code:s1  [claude-code]  2026-08-27T09:00:00+00:00  2 turns  2 calls
  assistant: Reading the changelog before drafting the release notes.
    ok                28c  Read
        result: ## 0.4.0 - correlate, detect
  assistant: Filing the release-notes follow-up.
                        -  github/create_issue

Summary — 1 sessions, 2 turns, 2 tool calls

  agent kinds
          1  claude-code

  tools called (2 distinct)
          1  Read
          1  github/create_issue

  MCP servers reached (1 distinct)
          1  github

  0 subagent turns · 0 results abridged upstream · 1 ok

1 of 2 calls returned with no outcome the collector could establish; the agent's parser supplies no success signal.

A blank status column is the collector's unknown, not a pending call: the client recorded no outcome that could be established, and the closing line counts those rather than filling one in.

What detect finds

Four kinds of finding, under two families that carry separate severity ladders — a stalled loop and a leaked credential do not belong on one scale.

Security — a credential reaching an outbound call; an injected instruction the agent then followed; a vulnerable component actually reached, with the vulnerability behind it.

Reliability — a loop that stalled; a call that hung.

Findings are correlated against an Agent BOM before they are judged, so a vulnerable component is reported when something actually used it rather than because it is installed.

What leaves your machine

Two of detect's three stages run entirely locally and need no model or credential. The third sends flagged sessions to the agent's own CLI — the provider that produced the transcript, never a different one — capped by --budget; --no-escalate turns it off and leaves the two local stages.

sessions omits prompts, tool arguments and results unless you pass --include-content. monitor binds to loopback only, refuses a non-loopback address rather than warning about it, and escalates nothing unless --escalate is given.

Status

Beta, and under active development.

sessions, detect and monitor work end to end today. Session collection currently reads Claude Code transcripts; further agent kinds are in progress upstream in OpenAIDR.

Built on

Two Apache-2.0 packages, neither of which depends on this one: openaca for agent composition analysis, and openaidr for session collection.

Licence

Proprietary. © Stacktrace AI, Inc. — stacktrace.ai