# snyk-agent-scan mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für snyk-agent-scan in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:snyk-agent-scan
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install snyk-agent-scan
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:snyk-agent-scan
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.5.15
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Constrain, log and scan your MCP connections for security vulnerabilities
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/snyk/agent-scan>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-17T17:13:21Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- snyk-agent-scan (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.5.15
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Snyk Agent Scan is Snyk's CLI for discovering and scanning local AI agent components, MCP servers, skills, and related configuration for security risks. It reflects the new package-manager problem of executable agent ecosystems: installed tools are no longer just binaries, they are prompts, skills, MCP configs, and commands that may run during inspection.

### Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository was created in 2025. Its README describes Agent Scan as a tool for inventorying installed agent components and scanning for prompt injections, sensitive data handling, malware payloads hidden in natural language, tool poisoning, toxic flows, and vulnerabilities in agent skills.

The README notes that CLI output is experimental and that Agent Scan 0.4 was published with a technical report on emerging threats in the agent skill ecosystem, indicating a young tool aimed at a fast-changing area.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Official usage examples install and run the tool with `uvx snyk-agent-scan@latest`, while the input records a Homebrew formula. The supported-agent matrix includes mainstream developer agents such as Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, VS Code, Codex, Amazon Q, and others.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users can run a full machine scan, scan a specific MCP configuration file, scan one skill file, or scan a directory of skills. The README warns that scanning MCP configurations may execute commands defined in those configs, so the CLI includes interactive consent and a deliberately named flag for trusted non-interactive runs.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package nerds care because Agent Scan treats local agent configuration as supply chain surface. It scans the places modern developer tools install behavior, including project, user, system, extension, and plugin scopes, making it relevant to anyone packaging or auditing AI-enabled command-line environments.

### Zeitleiste

- 2025: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2025: README documents scanning for MCP servers, agent tools, and skills.
- 2026: Repository metadata shows active maintenance.

### Related projects

- Related ecosystems include MCP servers, Codex skills, Claude skills, Cursor/Windsurf/Gemini agent configurations, and Snyk's broader developer security tooling.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/snyk/agent-scan>
- <https://github.com/snyk/agent-scan#readme>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für snyk-agent-scan wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.



## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/snyk-agent-scan.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/snyk-agent-scan.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph