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ai agent security and monitoring tools

Recent window: last 5.4 months (2026-05-01 → 2026-10-11), compared with the prior 5.4 months.

security · 203 members · Data as of 2026-10-14

Products in this niche protect and oversee autonomous AI agents by providing runtime guardrails, credential firewalls, and detailed audit logs of agent actions. They are primarily used by DevSecOps teams and software engineering leaders deploying agentic workflows into production environments. Unlike standard LLM observability tools that monitor cost or text quality, these solutions focus specifically on execution permissions, access control, and mitigating security vulnerabilities during autonomous tool use.

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Name Source Upvotes ▲ Launched
ZeroID HN 7 2026-04-07
Tolmo: Secure your software shipped at Claude Code pace YC 7 2026-06-24
Security Scanner for Agent Skills and MCP HN 7 2026-05-03
ZeroID HN 7 2026-04-08
I built a firewall for agents because prompt engineering isn't security HN 7 2026-01-19
genpark-agentic-payment-tokenized-authorization-sentinel-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-29
genpark-agent-tool-permission-rbac-validator-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-26
Agent-browser-shield HN 7 2026-06-03
Viberails HN 7 2026-02-04
Traceforce — Catch risky agent actions your security gateway will never spot YC 7 2026-07-28
Teapot HN 7 2026-02-18
genpark-agent-tool-permission-rbac-validator-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-26
owasp-agentic-lab GITHUB 7 2026-09-15
Watch all the AI agents on your machine HN 7 2026-09-22
Authorize MCP tool calls without giving agents the credentials HN 7 2026-09-14
herdr-office GITHUB 7 2026-09-11
AgentPort HN 8 2026-04-29
Zeroclawed: Secure Agent Gateway HN 8 2026-04-10
awesome-agent-hardening GITHUB 8 2026-09-29
Sidian DataGuard PH 8 2026-09-29
hermes-seagull GITHUB 8 2026-09-11
Declaw Arena HN 8 2026-07-02
ZenStack HN 8 2026-07-14
Guardians HN 8 2026-04-09
Agentic Fabriq: Okta for Agents YC 9 2026-03-03
AIOStack HN 9 2026-01-14
cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt HN 9 2026-08-04
Scan your dev machine for AI agents, MCP servers, and IDE extensions HN 9 2026-03-12
My agents are building a secure fork of OpenClaw HN 9 2026-02-13
Beating GPT5.5-xhigh for Coding agent security with SLMs and IRM HN 9 2026-08-27
9 Mothers - AI mission systems YC 10 2026-06-05
AgentArmor HN 10 2026-03-14
easy-unlocker GITHUB 10 2026-09-16
Fresh Jots PH 10 2026-10-08
jev-safety-gateway GITHUB 10 2026-09-24
jev-security-scan GITHUB 10 2026-09-19
OneCLI - Your AI agents shouldn't be holding raw secrets YC 11 2026-07-23
Vestauth HN 11 2026-02-17
Confessor HN 11 2026-07-12
A police department for your Claude Code agents HN 11 2026-06-11
Latchkey HN 12 2026-02-03
Clawvisor — The Authorization Layer for AI Agents YC 13 2026-05-07
Open-source playground to red-team AI agents against public prompts HN 13 2026-08-09
agentic-chaos GITHUB 13 2026-10-02
Agent Passport HN 14 2026-02-21
Arcjet for AI coding agents PH 14 2026-10-09
ContextFort HN 14 2026-01-14
Talos HN 14 2026-08-28
OkaiDokai, tool-level firewall for OpenClaw, Claude Code and Codex HN 15 2026-02-20
AI-SOC-Agent-for-Microsoft-Sentinel GITHUB 15 2026-09-11