agentao: Local-first, governed AI agent runtime for Python — embed it in your app, or run it as a CLI or ACP server

by jin-bo · MCP Server · ★ 310

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How to install agentao

pip install agentao
pip install 'agentao[cli]'

Taken from the project's README on GitHub.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 70/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours.

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars310
Forks14
LanguagePython
CategoryMCP Server
LicenseMIT
Quality Score70/100
Open Issues2
Last Updated2026-11-02
Created2026-02-10
Platformscli, mcp, python
Est. Tokens~15k

About agentao

Agentao (Agent + Tao) "Order in Chaos, Path in Intelligence." Agentao is a Governed Agent Runtime — a local-first, private-first, embeddable agent harness for Python hosts. Permissions, protocols, memory, plugins, and multi-session control are all first-class. 中文版本 README.zh.md 📚 Documentation — read this first The full handbook lives in (VitePress, bilingual). Production site: agentao.cn.

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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