agent-discover-scanner: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

agent-discover-scanner CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from Defend-AI-Tech-Inc/agent-discover-scanner. It costs 3,482 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for AgentDiscover Scanner, an open-source Python tool that finds and records AI agents running across an organisation’s systems. It groups findings into categories such as confirmed agents, unknown agents and unapproved AI activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing, testing or documenting the AgentDiscover Scanner, especially its command-line interface, detection layers and agent inventory.
Why use it?
It tells a coding agent how the scanner works, where its files live and which rules the project follows. That reduces the risk of changes that conflict with its detection and classification design.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

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agent-discover-scanner CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

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None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 266 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md — AgentDiscover Scanner

Open-source AI agent discovery tool (v2.7.1) published on PyPI as agent-discover-scanner. Part of the DefendAI platform for autonomous AI governance. MIT licensed. Maintained by Mohamed Waseem / DefendAI.


What this project does

AgentDiscover Scanner discovers, classifies, and inventories autonomous AI agents running across an infrastructure. It runs five detection layers simultaneously and correlates them into a unified agent inventory with five classifications:

Class Meaning Risk
GHOST Runtime AI activity — no source code found Critical
CONFIRMED Detected in code AND observed running High
UNKNOWN Found in code, not yet observed at runtime Medium
SHADOW AI Known app using AI without governance Medium
ZOMBIE Was active, no longer observed Low

The GHOST classification is the core value proposition — it catches AI agents making live API calls with no corresponding source code, owner, or deployment record.


Repository layout

src/agent_discover_scanner/    # Main package
  cli.py                       # Typer CLI entry point (all commands)
  scan_runner.py               # Shared execute_scan_all() implementation
  scanner.py                   # File discovery / walk
  visitor.py                   # ContextAwareVisitor — AST-based Python detection
  signatures.py                # SignatureRegistry + individual Signature subclasses
  js_signatures.py             # JavaScript/TypeScript detection (esprima)
  correlator.py                # CorrelationEngine — cross-layer agent identity
  network_monitor.py           # Layer 2 — psutil-based network observation
  mcp_detector.py              # MCP server detection (v2.4.0+)
  high_risk_agents.py          # OpenClaw / AutoGPT / BabyAGI detection (v2.4.0+)
  known_apps.py                # Three-tier known-app resolution
  saas_detector.py             # SaaS blast radius scoring
  behavioral_patterns.py       # ReAct loops, RAG patterns, multi-turn detection
  aibom.py                     # CycloneDX 1.6-oriented AI BOM export (v2.5.0+)
  audit_reports.py             # ghost-agents.md, mcp-report.md, summary.md writers
  sarif_output.py              # SARIF generation for Layer 1
  sbom_analyzer.py             # requirements.txt / package.json scanning
  platform.py                  # DefendAI platform upload
  errors.py                    # ValidationError, CLI helpers
  models/                      # Pydantic data models
  monitors/                    # Layer 3 — K8s/Tetragon monitor
  layer4/                      # Layer 4 — osquery endpoint discovery
  reports/                     # Layer 4 report generation
  detectors/                   # Layer 5 — Cloud Audit detectors (v2.7.0+)
    cloud_audit/               # Package: base ABC, AWS CloudTrail, Azure/GCP stubs
      __init__.py              # Auto-discovery + run_cloud_audit_detection()
      base.py                  # CloudAuditDetector ABC + CloudAuditFinding dataclass
      aws_cloudtrail.py        # AWS CloudTrail + Lake — GA
      azure_monitor.py         # Azure Monitor — Preview stub
      gcp_audit.py             # GCP Cloud Audit Logs — Preview stub
    cloudtrail.py              # Backward-compat shim → re-exports from cloud_audit/

tests/                         # pytest test suite
  fixtures/                    # Python/JS files used as detection test inputs
  test_scanner.py
  test_correlator.py
  test_aibom.py
  test_audit_bundle.py
  test_behavioral_patterns.py

docs/                          # Architecture diagrams, setup guides
deployment/                    # systemd service, K8s Tetragon tracing policy
demo/                          # K8s manifests + sample repo for local demo

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agent-discover-scanner CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Defend-AI-Tech-Inc/agent-discover-scanner (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,482 tokens to every session, about $0.0174 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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