Panguard AI — Security for AI Agents
Panguard protects AI agents from prompt injection, tool poisoning, data exfiltration, and 9 other threat categories using 9,700+ detection rules (Sigma + YARA + ATR).
Available Commands
Audit installed skills for security threats
bashpanguard audit skill .
Scans all SKILL.md files in the current directory and subdirectories. Reports risk level, flagged patterns, and recommendations.
Quick security scan
bashpanguard scan
Runs a fast security health check on the current system.
Full security scan with code analysis
bashpanguard scan --depth full
Deep scan including SAST code analysis, dependency audit, and threat detection.
Start real-time protection (Guard)
bashpanguard guard start
Starts the Guard engine as a background daemon. Monitors all agent activity in real-time using ATR (Agent Threat Rules), Sigma, and YARA rules.
Check Guard status
bashpanguard guard status
Shows whether Guard is running, rule counts, and recent alerts.
Stop Guard
bashpanguard guard stop
Show system status dashboard
bashpanguard status
Displays a comprehensive status panel: Guard state, rule counts, threat stats, and connected platforms.
Show recent security alerts
bashpanguard guard alerts
Workflow
When the user asks about security, skill auditing, or threat protection:
- If they want to audit skills: Run
panguard audit skill <path>on the target directory - If they want a security scan: Run
panguard scan(add--depth fullfor thorough analysis) - If they want real-time protection: Run
panguard guard start - If they want status: Run
panguard status
Setup
If panguard is not installed, install it:
bashnpm install -g panguard
Then configure for all AI agent platforms:
bashpanguard setup


