AgentSight releases eBPF agent monitoring tool
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AgentSight has released a local-first AI agent observability tool that uses eBPF and TLS traffic tracing to monitor existing command-line agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI, without requiring an SDK, proxy, or vendor integration. Not all features of the tool rely on eBPF: on Windows, macOS, or Linux, top, bind, vis, and report can directly read the agent's own session files; record and eBPF-based debugging commands require Linux kernel 4.1 or later with eBPF support (5.0 or later recommended). On Linux, sudo is optional for top, and eBPF is automatically enabled when sudo privileges are already available. The current Homebrew installation method supports only Linux x86-64.
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AgentSight is a local-first, top/strace-like observability tool for AI agents that uses eBPF and TLS traffic tracing to connect prompts, model calls, and tool decisions to their real effects on the machine, without requiring an SDK, proxy, or vendor integration. It works with existing agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and OpenClaw, offering live session views, process/file/network tracking, saved SQLite session reports, a web UI, and OpenTelemetry export. The project is MIT-licensed and installable via Homebrew, Cargo, release binaries, or Docker, with eBPF requiring Linux kernel 4.1+ and sudo access for live capture.
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