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24 alternatives to Guard – LLM agent that scans your AWS account for misconfigs

I wanted to do a complete audit of my AWS account but was dissatisfied with the existing tools. Many of them are clunky to use, and their verbose scan outputs are difficult to understand. So, I built my own open-source tool that uses LLMs to summarize the scan results.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Guard – LLM agent that scans your AWS account for misconfigs launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Open-source LLM tracing for agent visibility

    Mar 2026 · breadcrumb.sh · its alternatives →

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    I built this out of curiosity about what Claude Code was actually sending to the API. Turns out, watching your tokens tick up in real-time is oddly satisfying. Sherlock sits between your LLM tools and the API, showing you every request with a live dashboard, and auto-saved copies of every prompt as markdown and json.

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Many teams connecting LLMs to external tools eventually encounter the same architectural issue: as more tools and agents are added, the integration pattern becomes an N×M mesh of direct connections. Each agent implements its own auth, retries, rate limiting, and logging; each tool needs credentials distributed to multiple places and observability becomes fragmented. We built LLM gateway with this goal to provide a single place to manage authentication, authorization, routing, and observability for MCP servers, with a path toward a more general agent-gateway architecture in the future. The…

    Dec 2025 · truefoundry.com · its alternatives →

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    Trails▲81

    Hey all, Justin here. I previously built Phind, the AI search engine for developers. One of the biggest problems we had there was figuring out what went wrong with bad searches. We had tons of searches per day, but less than 1% of users gave any explicit feedback. So we were either manually digging through searches or making general system improvements and hoping they helped. This problem gets harder with agents. Traces are longer and more complex. It takes more effort to review them, so I'm building a tool that lets you analyze LLM outputs directly to help developers of LLM apps and agents…

    Jan 2026 · trails-red.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Infrabase▲142

    We too at first thought that letting an LLM manage your AWS account must be a bad idea. What could possibly go wrong?? However we couldn’t resist building it, and when we did, we were surprised how much it can do even in plain vanilla form, which currently is just the ai-sdk frontend with some aws sdk code generation (inspared by aws-mcp). We all but stopped using the AWS console internally and switched to Infrabase - a lot of the time it’s much faster to prompt than to click around in AWS console, especially for things that involve multiple steps, IAM roles, etc. So we started to think of…

    2025 · infrabase.co · its alternatives →

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    Hi Hacker News! We’re Vadim and Chris from Highlight.io [1]. We do web app monitoring and are working on using LLMs/embeddings to add new functionality to our error monitoring product. Given that there’s a lot of founders/engineers using LLMs in their products, we figured we’d share how we built the new functionality, their impact on our workflows, and how you can try it out. Our goal was to build two features: (1) tagging errors (e.g. deeming an error as “authentication error” or a “database error”); and (2) grouping similar errors together (e.g. two errors that have a different…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Never go broke on AWS

    2022 · costguard.io · its alternatives →

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    I've been building a tool that changes how LLM coding agents explore codebases, and I wanted to share it along with some early observations. Typically claude code globs directories, greps for patterns, and reads files with minimal guidance. It works in kind of the same way you'd learn to navigate a city by walking every street. You'll eventually build a mental map, but claude never does - at least not any that persists across different contexts. The Recursive Language Models paper from Zhang, Kraska, and Khattab at MIT CSAIL introduced a cleaner framing. Instead of cramming everything into…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Security gateway for LLM agents

    Feb 2026 · cencurity.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Matvey, Ildar, Joey, and Dominik here. If you're building LLM agents that use tools, you're probably worried about prompt injection attacks that can hijack those tools. We were too, and found that solutions like prompt-based filtering or secondary "guard" LLMs can be unreliable. Our thesis is that agent security should be handled at the network level between the agent and the LLM, just like a traditional web application firewall. So we built Archestra Platform: an open-source gateway that acts as a secure proxy for your AI agents. It's designed to be a deterministic firewall against…

    2025 · archestra.ai · its alternatives →

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    Current AI-assisted CLI tools are often part of larger systems and work better on Linux. I built llm-term to address these. It's a Rust-based tool that compiles into a single binary file. You only need to download the binary, add it to your PATH, and configure your OpenAI key to get started. While llm-term offers an option for gpt-4o, it works great with gpt-4o-mini. So it's not costly. I appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I've been working on a side project over quarantine called Usage.ai and I finally feel comfortable enough to launch it. We're a service that plugs directly into AWS, automatically finds savings, and applies those savings at the press of a confirmation button all without ever needing to go to an AWS console. I'd love to get HN's thoughts on it! Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/2a6f1c8e4c214914a1cdd88c6fdec4ac Link: https://www.usage.ai/

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Static analysis for TypeScript / JavaScript LLM-application code. OWASP LLM Top 10 at commit time. A complement to Semgrep's p/ai-best-practices for the TS/JS ecosystem. - Javierlozo/llm-audit

    2025 · llmaudit.ai · its alternatives →

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    Stop wasting 40% of your AWS spend — in minutes

    2025 · awscostguard.com · its alternatives →

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    klanex▲4

    Reliability layer for AI agent tool calls

    Aug 2026 · klanexai.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16SD

    Hi! Been working on DialtoneApp, a free domain scanning tool to see how your site does with all the new rules for AI SEO. Also known as AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) or GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) the A can also stand for "Agent"! It's a whole new world out there and we haven't even gotten to agents.json files and the new "b2b" (bot to bot) commerce part. But there are some standards starting to take shape with llms.txt and using things like: on all your html pages to have this other markdown version. We list the top 300 sites in terms of how well they follow all the new rules.…

    Apr 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Auditi▲4

    I've been building AI agents at work and the hardest part isn't the prompts or orchestration – it's answering "is this agent actually good?" in production. Tracing tells you what happened. But I wanted to know how well it happened. So I built Auditi – it captures your LLM traces and spans and automatically evaluates them with LLM-as-a-judge + human annotation workflows. Two lines to get started: auditi.init(api_key="...") auditi.instrument() # monkey-patches OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini Every API call is captured with full span trees, token usage, and costs. No code changes to your…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Local security & compliance scanner for AI agents

    Jul 2026 · safeclaude.net · its alternatives →

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    Can AI crawlers read your site?

    Aug 2026 · querytrace.co · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, A few weeks ago, we stealth launched SEC Insights on Product Hunt and were thrilled to reach the top 5! What is SEC Insights? It harnesses the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities of LlamaIndex to provide answers about SEC 10-K & 10-Q documents. The enthusiastic reception we received on Product Hunt prompted us to open-source our project. Now, developers can use our project either as a reference or they can fork it entirely for their LLM-powered applications. We at LlamaIndex built this to help developers move their LLM app ideas from prototype to production. We're very…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Policy enforcement for LLM tool calls.

    Apr 2026 · aegis-control-io.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Static security scanner for LLM agents — prompt injection, MCP config auditing, taint analysis. 51 rules mapped to OWASP Agentic Top 10 (2026). Works with LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen. - HeadyZhang/agent-audit

    Jan 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Security scans for LLM endpoints

    Jul 2026 · usetarge.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24IS

    Hey HN! For that last 8 months I've been trying to make agents that can hack web applications to find vulnerabilities in them - An AI Security Tester. The system has 29 agents in total, a custom LLM Orchestration framework which works on the task-subtask architecture (old-school but works amazingly for my use case, and is pretty reliable) with custom agent calling mechanism. No Auo-Gen, Langchain and Crew AI - Everything custom built for pentesting. Each test runs in an isolated Kali linux environment (on AWS Fargate), where the agents have full access to the environment to undertake any…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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