Pipelock
Open-source agent firewall for MCP and AI agent egress·pipelab.org
Pipelock is an open-source agent firewall that mediates MCP, HTTP, and WebSocket traffic between AI agents and the internet, including local stdio MCP servers. It runs an 11-layer scanning pipeline covering data-loss prevention, prompt-injection detection, tool-poisoning defense, and SSRF/cloud-metadata blocking. It ships as a single Go binary under 30MB with a process sandbox and adaptive kill switch, and can emit signed Ed25519 evidence and compliance-mapped reports (OWASP, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, HIPAA, SOC 2) for mediated actions.
What it's for
Features 17
- 11-layer scanner pipeline
- 32-pattern prompt-injection detection with 6-pass normalization
- 65 DLP patterns for credential and PII detection
- Adaptive enforcement with escalation levels and auto-recovery
- Compliance evidence mapped to OWASP, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, HIPAA, and SOC 2
- Fleet governance via Pipelock Conductor (Enterprise)
- Hot-reloadable signed rule bundles
- Kill switch with 6 independent trigger sources (CLI, dashboard, API, Telegram)
- MCP protocol scanning (tools/list, tools/call arguments, tool responses)
- Offline receipt verification (Go, TypeScript, Rust, Python verifiers)
- Operator dashboard/console with Prometheus metrics
- Process sandbox (Landlock + seccomp on Linux, sandbox-exec on macOS)
- Session binding and chain detection
- Signed Ed25519 decision receipts and audit reports (HTML, JSON, SARIF)
- SSRF, private-IP, and cloud-metadata blocking
- Stdio MCP server wrapping with tool poisoning and rug-pull detection
- TLS interception and cross-request detection
At a glance
Integrations
Complianceself-reported
Pricing
Prices are stated in USD. The site emphasizes flat-rate pricing with no seats or per-agent metering. Enterprise pricing offers three on-ramps: a $5,000/60-day evaluation, a $15,000 year-one Design Partner track (limited to 3), and a $25,000/year flat annual contract.
No credit card required; forever free.
Full security engine, one default security profile
Founding-member price locked for life for the first 50 customers; standard price is $99/mo. No seats, no per-agent pricing.
Unlimited named security profiles under one admin boundary
Adds to the free Assess summary (grade, section scores, top findings, pass/fail verdict). Run pipelock assess against a deployment.
One-year license
Credited toward year one if signed within 30 days of the eval ending; includes a signed Fleet Receipt Report regardless.
60-day evaluation
Direct input on Conductor, Fleet Receipt Reports, and evidence workflows; renews at $25,000/year unless otherwise agreed.
Limited to 3 design partners
No seats, no per-agent meter, no quote maze.
Flat contract regardless of agent count
Save 17% when billed annually instead of monthly.