agent-governance-toolkit vs cc-safety-net
agent-governance-toolkit is much bigger: 6.2k stars against 1.5k. Over the days we have tracked them agent-governance-toolkit moved +51.2% and cc-safety-net +2.9%, so agent-governance-toolkit is growing faster right now.
They split the axes: agent-governance-toolkit leads on model freedom, cc-safety-net on context depth.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
Deterministic, application-level enforcement that intercepts every tool call and makes denied actions structurally impossible (fail-closed governance plus tamper-evident audit), rather than relying on prompt-level controls.
- Stars
- 6.2k
- Tracked growth
- +51.2%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 1d ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Free, open-source
Parses command semantics (including shell wrappers and interpreter one-liners) to block destructive commands and secret access before they execute across many coding agent CLIs.
- Stars
- 1.5k
- Tracked growth
- +2.9%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 56m ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Free, local install (requires Node.js)
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | agent-governance-toolkit | cc-safety-net |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Action-level only | ●●●●● Command + related files |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● Approval gating | ●●●●● Presets + audit |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● YAML & APIs | ●●●●● Rulebooks & per-project |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Fully local runnable | ●●●●● Local-only |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Bring-your-own key | ●●●●● Multiple agent CLIs |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● One-command start | ●●●●● One-command install |
Which one to pick
Pick agent-governance-toolkit if…
Deterministic enforcement — pick AGT when you need fail-closed, application-level policy enforcement and tamper-evident auditing that prevents agents from performing denied actions.
- Model freedom: Bring-your-own key (5/5 against 3/5)
Pick cc-safety-net if…
Safety-first — Blocks destructive git/filesystem commands and secret access before AI agents run them, using semantic command analysis, configurable rulebooks, presets, and a local audit trail.
- Context depth: Command + related files (3/5 against 1/5)
What people want from each one
microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit
Hacker News: Agent Governance Toolkit drew 5 points and 0 comments.
Questions people ask
Is agent-governance-toolkit better than cc-safety-net?
They split the axes: agent-governance-toolkit leads on model freedom, cc-safety-net on context depth. agent-governance-toolkit is worth picking when deterministic enforcement — pick AGT when you need fail-closed, application-level policy enforcement and tamper-evident auditing that prevents agents from performing denied actions.
Which of agent-governance-toolkit and cc-safety-net keeps my code private?
agent-governance-toolkit: Fully local runnable (5/5). cc-safety-net: Local-only (5/5).
What does each one cost to run?
agent-governance-toolkit: Free, open-source. cc-safety-net: Free, local install (requires Node.js).
Full profiles: microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit and kenryu42/cc-safety-net. Everything else in Security & guardrails.