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AI · May 20, 2026

Adrian

The open-source runtime security toolkit for your agents

Adrian launched on May 20, 2026 with 9 votes, #1,305 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

What it does

Adrian is the first open-source security monitoring toolkit that analyses not just what your agent does, but what it thinks. Based on research from OpenAI and DeepMind, Adrian installs with just 2 lines of code and applies security monitoring to your AI agents. When your agent starts looping, gets compromised, becomes misaligned or generally starts misbehaving you get notified on Slack or Discord. Adrian is free, forever, and even supports running entirely locally on your system.

Open-source runtime AI agent security tool - monitors and controls AI agents, catching malicious tool use, prompt injection, and policy drift in real time, before the agent acts. - secureagentics/Adrian

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