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24 alternatives to Scan your dev machine for AI agents, MCP servers, and IDE extensions

Scan your dev machine for AI agents, MCP servers, IDE extensions, and suspicious packages - in seconds. - step-security/dev-machine-guard

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Hi HN, We are the devs behind VibeShift. We have been building this MCP server to put AI coding assistants in an automatic feedback loop. They code, test, debug, fix everything until we have a fully working, secure code. It tests like a real user, copies network/console and logical errors to give them back to cursor. (1 min demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN_RgQGa8B0) We felt this was the natural next step for AI coding assistants. And with new asynchronous assistants like codex, having a plug & play tester makes sure you don't have to spend time debugging and…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Vibe-code MCP-ready tools for any AI Agent

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents.

    Apr 2026 · isitagentready.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We just launched Codacy Guardrails, an IDE extension with a CLI for code analysis and MCP server that enforces security & quality rules on AI-generated code in real-time. It hooks into AI coding assistants (like VS Code Agent Mode, Cursor, Windsurf), silently scanning and fixing AI-suggested code that has vulnerabilities or violates your coding standards, while the code it’s being generated. We built this because coding agents can be a double-edged sword. They do boost productivity, but can easily introduce insecure or non-compliant code. One recent research team at NYU found that 40%…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    MCPTotal▲179

    Secure MCP servers that just work

    Dec 2025 · a16y.ai · its alternatives →

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    AutoMCP▲150

    Easily deploy your existing AI agent projects as MCP servers

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Easily build AI agents that connect to any service, no-code

    2025 · quickagent.app · its alternatives →

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    Open-source Computer Use MCP for AI agents

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm Mike, Head of Eng/Product at Alloy Automation. We built MCP by Alloy Automation to give your AI agents structured access to business-critical systems without the integration headache. We've built MCP servers covering thousands of tools across platforms like Quickbooks, Xero, Notion, HubSpot, and Salesforce. Pick the tools you need, provision a server, and ship faster. Need more control? Our Connectivity API gives you programmatic access to all the same tools for custom integrations beyond MCP. Everything runs with scoped auth utilizing our battle-tested credential management system…

    2025 · ai.runalloy.com · its alternatives →

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    Kaiku▲79

    The task tracker your AI agents already know how to use

    28d ago · kaiku.tech · its alternatives →

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    Run a fleet of AI agents across your machines

    Aug 2026 · apra-labs.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Security scanner for AI agents, MCP servers and agent skills. - snyk/agent-scan

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AI Agents Listing is a curated directory for the agentic ecosystem. It helps you discover AI agents, MCP servers, and drop-in agent skills, ranking them by real engagement rather than ads. You can browse popular categories, view leaderboards, and submit your own tools to get disc

    Sep 2026 · aiagentslisting.com · its alternatives →

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    Local security & compliance scanner for AI agents

    Jul 2026 · safeclaude.net · its alternatives →

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    Open-source malware scanner and runtime guard for AI agents

    Jul 2026 · panguard.ai · its alternatives →

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    Prompt, build and explore MCP-ready tools for your AI Agents

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Most of the MCP servers that I’ve seen are tools implemented in standalone projects. To onboard more tools (especially agents and multi-agent workflows) to MCP, I’ve been thinking it’s important to allow AI engineers to continue to prototype in their existing agent frameworks and deploy with minimal conversion when ready. We created the automcp library, which you can add as a dependency to existing projects (CrewAI, LangGraph, Llama Index, OpenAI Agents SDK, Pydantic AI, mcp-agent currently supported but more coming soon). You just need to run a CLI command to create a run_mcp.py file, make…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The app store for AI tools. Find, trust, and install

    Mar 2026 · mcp-marketplace.io · its alternatives →

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    AMA▲4

    Find, route, and secure every AI agent on your machine

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source 2D IDE for managing AI agents in native CLIs, terminal, gits, beads issues, and files across multiple projects and machines. Self-host on a single machine via localhost OR host on a cluster via Tailscale OR connect to app.49agents.com (coming soon) - alpbahadur/49-IDE

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Love OpenClaw? Now ship it to production. Built in Rust.

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MCP scanning & threat observability for AI-native tools

    2025 · scanmcp.com · its alternatives →

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    We've been scanning MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to understand the security posture of the ecosystem. After 306 servers and 1,211 vulnerabilities, here's what we found: - 69 critical vulnerabilities - 32 servers using eval() on untrusted input - 31 SQL injection vulnerabilities - 32 servers with hardcoded API credentials 10.5% of servers have at least one critical vulnerability. MCP servers run with your permissions. AI agents trust them implicitly. A prompt injection can exploit them remotely. MCPSafe (https://mcpsafe.org) lets you scan before you connect. Free tier…

    Feb 2026 · mcpsafe.org · its alternatives →

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    Autonomous AI Agent Scanner for Web Security & UI Issues

    Feb 2026 · rescanflow.com · its alternatives →

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