better-agents: Standards for building agents, better

by langwatch · MCP Server · ★ 1.6k

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How to install better-agents

npm install -g @langwatch/better-agents
npx @langwatch/better-agents init my-agent-project

Taken from the project's README on GitHub. Check the security audit before running it.

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. Full audit →

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

Stars1,558
Forks150
LanguageTypeScript
CategoryMCP Server
LicenseMIT
Quality Score70/100
Open Issues15
Last Updated2026-06-03
Created2025-04-19
Platformscli, mcp, node
Est. Tokens~159k

About better-agents

Better Agents Better Agents is a CLI tool and a set of standards for agent building. It supercharges your coding assistant (Kilocode, Claude Code, Cursor, etc), making it an expert in any agent framework you choose (Agno, Mastra, LangGraph etc) and all their best practices. It's the best way to start any new agent project.

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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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