garak vs SkillSpector
Side-by-side comparison of two AI agent tools
Short answer
- SkillSpector is growing faster: +4,020 GitHub stars in the last 30 days vs +200 for garak.
- Pick garak for: the LLM vulnerability scanner. Pick SkillSpector for: scans AI agent skills for prompt injection, data exfiltration, supply-chain risks, and vulnerabilities.
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garakopen-source
the LLM vulnerability scanner
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SkillSpectoropen-source
Scans AI agent skills for prompt injection, data exfiltration, supply-chain risks, and vulnerabilities
Metrics
| garak | SkillSpector | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 9.4k | 19.2k |
| Star velocity /mo | 200 | 4.0k |
| Commits (90d) | 227 | 366 |
| Releases (6m) | 4 | 10 |
| Downloads (30d, npm + PyPI) | 36.2K | — |
| Overall score | 0.6619474909300054 | 0.8642403087184598 |
FAQ
- Which is more popular, garak or SkillSpector?
- SkillSpector has more GitHub stars (19,183 vs 9,414).
- Which is more actively developed, garak or SkillSpector?
- SkillSpector had more commits in the last 90 days (366 vs 227).
- Should I use garak or SkillSpector?
- Compare their capabilities, limitations and "best for" notes above. Both are open source, so trying each on a small task is the fastest way to decide.