AgentGuard

io.github.MerchantGuard/agentguard

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
1 secret
★ 0 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-09-21
Health score 52

About AgentGuard

AgentGuard is an MCP server published by the GitHub account MerchantGuard. Local spend caps, kill-switch blocking and Ed25519-signed receipts for AI agent tool calls.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package @agentguard-run/mcp at version 0.3.1.

It asks for one secret: AGENTGUARD_LICENSE_KEY. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 0.3.1 was published on 21 September 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`AGENTGUARD_MCP_DAILY_CAP_CENTS`	No	No	Local daily spend cap in cents. A nonnegative integer.
`AGENTGUARD_MCP_PER_CALL_CAP_CENTS`	No	No	Local per-call spend cap in cents. A nonnegative integer.
`AGENTGUARD_MCP_TENANT`	No	No	Tenant identifier stamped into local receipts.
`AGENTGUARD_HOME`	No	No	Local signing-key, configuration and ledger directory. Defaults to .agentguard in the operating system home directory.
`AGENTGUARD_MCP_LEDGER`	No	No	Local decision storage. ndjson persists receipts across restarts; memory retains this process only.
`AGENTGUARD_MCP_DISABLE_COST_OVERRIDE`	No	No	Set to 1 to discard and prevent model pricing overrides for this server.
`AGENTGUARD_LOCK_COST_OVERRIDES`	No	No	Spend SDK startup lock. Set to 1 to prevent model pricing overrides.
`AGENTGUARD_ACTOR_DIGEST`	No	No	Set to 1 to hash actor identifiers before they enter local receipts.
`AGENTGUARD_LICENSE_KEY`	No	Yes	Optional AgentGuard license key for license validation and seat registration. Otherwise read from local configuration.
`AGENTGUARD_LICENSE_ENDPOINT`	No	No	License and seat service base URL. No prompts, tool content or receipts are sent.
`AGENTGUARD_NO_BEACON`	No	No	Set to 1 to disable optional activation telemetry regardless of saved consent.
`AGENTGUARD_TELEMETRY`	No	No	Set to 1 to opt in to content-free activation telemetry. Otherwise saved consent applies, default off.
`AGENTGUARD_INSTALL_ID`	No	No	Optional identifier used only by opted-in activation telemetry when no saved install identifier exists.
`AGENTGUARD_ANONYMOUS_INSTALL_ID`	No	No	Legacy fallback for AGENTGUARD_INSTALL_ID in opted-in activation telemetry.
`CI`	No	No	Existing runtime marker. A nonempty value marks opted-in activation telemetry as CI; it does not enable telemetry.
`GITHUB_ACTIONS`	No	No	Existing runtime marker. A nonempty value marks opted-in activation telemetry as CI; it does not enable telemetry.
`GITLAB_CI`	No	No	Existing runtime marker. A nonempty value marks opted-in activation telemetry as CI; it does not enable telemetry.
`CIRCLECI`	No	No	Existing runtime marker. A nonempty value marks opted-in activation telemetry as CI; it does not enable telemetry.
`BUILDKITE`	No	No	Existing runtime marker. A nonempty value marks opted-in activation telemetry as CI; it does not enable telemetry.
`VERCEL`	No	No	Existing runtime marker. A nonempty value marks opted-in activation telemetry as CI; it does not enable telemetry.
`NETLIFY`	No	No	Existing runtime marker. A nonempty value marks opted-in activation telemetry as CI; it does not enable telemetry.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/MerchantGuard/agentguard-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: AGENTGUARD_LICENSE_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account MerchantGuard
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	@agentguard-run/mcp@0.3.1 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 8 files in @agentguard-run/mcp@0.3.1: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 8 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 52 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity7 / 40

0 GitHub stars, 71 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity18 / 25

Last push 2026-10-06, no GitHub release, 2 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 0 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 0 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.MerchantGuard/agentguard`
Publisher	GitHub account MerchantGuard
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account MerchantGuard. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	npm `@agentguard-run/mcp` 0.3.1 (stdio)
Version	0.3.1
Published	2026-09-21
Last updated	2026-09-21
Source repository	https://github.com/MerchantGuard/agentguard-mcp
Website	https://agentguard.run
Category	Agent safety & governance (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentguard": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@agentguard-run/mcp@0.3.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-merchantguard-agentguard.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.