apex — security grade SAFE, quality 68/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 68/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

by pensarai · Agent Tool · ★ 312

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About apex

Pensar Apex AI-powered penetration testing using autonomous agents — directly in your terminal. Run blackbox and whitebox pentests that explore, reason, and surface real vulnerabilities. Want to run from the cloud or integrate it with your CI/CD? See Pensar Console. -- -- Use Cases Developers Run before merging a PR — catch v

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Quick Facts

Stars312
Forks58
LanguageTypeScript
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseApache-2.0
Quality Score67.7672867532874/100
Open Issues63
Last Updated2026-09-22
Created2025-10-10
Platformsnode
Est. Tokens~15k

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with apex for enhanced workflows:

  • EVA — semantic(0.31)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (59%)
  • tengu — semantic(0.37)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop (56%)
  • hackerai — semantic(0.30)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (56%)
  • pentest-skills — semantic(0.26)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (53%)

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is apex?

apex is AI-powered offensive security testing using autonomous agents, directly in your terminal.. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 312 GitHub stars.

What programming language is apex written in?

apex is primarily written in TypeScript. It covers topics such as agents, ai, ai-sdk.

How do I install or use apex?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the apex GitHub repository at github.com/pensarai/apex. The project has 312 stars and 58 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does apex use?

apex is released under the Apache-2.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

What are the best alternatives to apex?

The top alternatives to apex on Agent Skills Hub include neurolink, ai-orchestra, mcp-security-hub. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. 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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