Open Source Appsec Scanner
A new open-source security scanner for AI coding agents has been released, offering two versions: a lightweight and an advanced option. The lightweight version is ultra-fast, requiring only 4 seconds to install, while the advanced version includes enterprise-grade features such as AST analysis and LLM-powered semantic review. Recent updates have introduced critical security fixes and compliance evaluation tools to enhance project security.
- ▪The lightweight version of the scanner is only 81.5KB and installs in 4 seconds.
- ▪The advanced version includes over 1,700 security rules and supports 12 programming languages.
- ▪Recent updates have added compliance evidence collection for SOC2 and GDPR frameworks.
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/sinewaveai/agent-security-scanner-mcp |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:28:16 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T12:42:07.659Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T12:42:07.659Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | h3cJ3TE9-FqA · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
agent-security-scanner-mcp Security scanner for AI coding agents and autonomous assistants Scans code for vulnerabilities, detects hallucinated packages, blocks prompt injection, and provides LLM-powered semantic code review — via MCP (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline) or CLI (OpenClaw, CI/CD). 🎯 Two Versions Available 🔥 ProofLayer (Lightweight) - NEW! Ultra-fast, zero-Python security scanner — 81.5KB package, 4-second install npm install -g @prooflayer/security-scanner ⚡ 4-second install (vs 45s traditional scanners) 📦 81.5KB package (vs 50MB+ alternatives) 🚀 Instant scans - pure regex, no Python/LLM 🛡️ 400+ security rules across 9 languages 🎯 7 MCP tools for AI agents ✅ Zero dependencies on Python 💯 MIT licensed - free for commercial use 📖 ProofLayer Documentation → 🔬 Full…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.