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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
Make sure your OpenClaw isn't doing things it's not supposed to HN 18 2026-04-15
Gilfoyle. An SRE Agent that finds truth while you're still guessing HN 17 2026-01-27
Cekura Red Teaming: Stress-test your AI agents for Jailbreaks, Bias, Toxicity and more YC 17 2026-01-16
AI-SOC-Agent-for-Microsoft-Sentinel GITHUB 15 2026-09-11
OkaiDokai, tool-level firewall for OpenClaw, Claude Code and Codex HN 15 2026-02-20
Talos HN 14 2026-08-28
ContextFort HN 14 2026-01-14
Agent Passport HN 14 2026-02-21
Arcjet for AI coding agents PH 14 2026-10-09
agentic-chaos GITHUB 13 2026-10-02
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
Latchkey HN 12 2026-02-03
A police department for your Claude Code agents HN 11 2026-06-11
Vestauth HN 11 2026-02-17
OneCLI - Your AI agents shouldn't be holding raw secrets YC 11 2026-07-23
Confessor HN 11 2026-07-12
Fresh Jots PH 10 2026-10-08
9 Mothers - AI mission systems YC 10 2026-06-05
AgentArmor HN 10 2026-03-14
easy-unlocker GITHUB 10 2026-09-16
jev-security-scan GITHUB 10 2026-09-19
jev-safety-gateway GITHUB 10 2026-09-24
Scan your dev machine for AI agents, MCP servers, and IDE extensions HN 9 2026-03-12
cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt HN 9 2026-08-04
My agents are building a secure fork of OpenClaw HN 9 2026-02-13
AIOStack HN 9 2026-01-14
Agentic Fabriq: Okta for Agents YC 9 2026-03-03
Beating GPT5.5-xhigh for Coding agent security with SLMs and IRM HN 9 2026-08-27
hermes-seagull GITHUB 8 2026-09-11
Zeroclawed: Secure Agent Gateway HN 8 2026-04-10
Guardians HN 8 2026-04-09
Declaw Arena HN 8 2026-07-02
AgentPort HN 8 2026-04-29
Sidian DataGuard PH 8 2026-09-29
awesome-agent-hardening GITHUB 8 2026-09-29
ZenStack HN 8 2026-07-14
Teapot HN 7 2026-02-18
Security Scanner for Agent Skills and MCP HN 7 2026-05-03
Authorize MCP tool calls without giving agents the credentials HN 7 2026-09-14
owasp-agentic-lab GITHUB 7 2026-09-15
Viberails HN 7 2026-02-04
I built a firewall for agents because prompt engineering isn't security HN 7 2026-01-19
herdr-office GITHUB 7 2026-09-11
Tolmo: Secure your software shipped at Claude Code pace YC 7 2026-06-24
ZeroID HN 7 2026-04-07
Agent-browser-shield HN 7 2026-06-03
genpark-agentic-payment-tokenized-authorization-sentinel-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-29
genpark-agent-tool-permission-rbac-validator-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-26
Watch all the AI agents on your machine HN 7 2026-09-22