Scan your dev machine for AI agents, MCP servers, and IDE extensions
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HN · launched Mar 12, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 46%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent security and monitoring tools · 297 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Compliance & governance
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 297 launches in ai agent security and monitoring tools →
Could you build this?
Yes This is essentially a CLI or desktop scanner script that inspects local configuration directories, processes, and VS Code/JetBrains extension paths for specific AI and MCP tool signatures.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2689 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1203 of 2690 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 134 days after the earliest competitor.
- Scan your AI agents for dangerous capabilities · hn · 2026-07-06 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- evepad · hn · 2026-08-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Selvedge · hn · 2026-05-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Forth MCP · hn · 2026-08-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Chiplab · hn · 2026-10-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Open tool for testing your AI Agents (No LLM) · hn · 2026-08-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Skillgrab · hn · 2026-04-15 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- browse · github · 2026-10-27 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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