Adrian vs failproofai
Runtime security for AI agents: watches actions AND reasoning traces to catch prompt injection, tool poisoning and out-of-remit behavior — blocking before the action lands. SDKs + Claude Code plugin. — versus — Observability plus policy enforcement for agent harnesses: records every run across 12 harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes…) and blocks dangerous tool calls with 39 built-in policies.
Both are runtime security for agents. Adrian watches actions and reasoning traces to catch prompt injection and tool poisoning; Failproof AI enforces named policies on tool calls across 12 harnesses and keeps the session record. Detection vs enforcement.
| Adrian | failproofai | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 556 | 2.1k |
| Forks | 91 | 444 |
| Language | Python | MDX |
| License | Apache-2.0 | NOASSERTION |
| Last activity | 16 days ago | yesterday |
| Topics | security, agents | security, coding |
| Curated connections | 7 | 5 |
Adrian — the curator's take
The interesting bet is judging reasoning traces, not just tool calls, against a working model of the agent's remit — the OpenAI/DeepMind-cited combo that catches what injection-trained classifiers miss. Know the deployment shape: the quickstart routes your agent's actions AND thoughts through their managed dashboard; self-hosting exists but is the longer path. Young (★460) and a startup's wedge product — run audit mode first and measure false positives on your own traffic before trusting block mode in production.
failproofai — the curator's take
The one to install the day an agent first runs `rm -rf` or force-pushes: hooks into ten coding CLIs plus the Hermes and OpenClaw gateways, records sessions to a local dashboard on :8020, and enforces policies *before* the tool call runs — sanitize API keys, block .env reads, sudo, terraform/kubectl, destructive SQL, direct pushes to main. Custom policies are a JS file in .failproofai/ that returns allow/deny/instruct; packs are versioned GitHub repos. NOT a tracing platform for agents you built from code (the Python SDK gives tracing but enforcement needs a hook in your runtime), and note the source-available licence and optional cloud — local works without an account.