What Akto does
Akto maps every AI agent and MCP tool, gives visibility, runs continuous red teaming, and enforces guardrails at scale.
Why teams reach for it: It combines discovery, continuous red teaming, and guardrail enforcement for AI agents and MCP tools.
Worth knowing
Its primary function is static scanning, scanning MCP server config, tool descriptions, agent skills, among other targets. It supports shadow MCP discovery, prompt-injection detection, tool-poisoning detection.
How Akto compares
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- Primary Function
- Static scanning
- Secondary Functions
- Runtime guardrails, Posture management, Threat detection
- Deployment Point
- In request path
- Scan Target
- MCP server config, tool descriptions, agent skills, network traffic, source code, running processes
- Shadow Mcp Discovery
- Yes
- Prompt Injection Detection
- Yes
- Tool Poisoning Detection
- Yes
- Clients Covered
- Amp, Claude Code CLI, Claude Agent SDK, Kiro CLI
- Policy Enforcement
- Both
- Siem Integration
- Yes
- Compliance Frameworks
- OWASP
How will you enforce policy and reduce risk?
Security & governance tools help teams enforce policy, monitor risk, and keep MCP usage compliant with internal rules.