AccuKnox AgentZ
by AccuKnox
Build, run and govern AI agents with sandboxing and tool-level permissions underneath
AgentZ is AccuKnox's platform for building, running and governing AI agents in production. It bundles the agent, its sandboxed execution environment, tools, workflows, permissions and audit trail into one product so teams stop assembling a stack of disconnected frameworks and secret stores. It is model-agnostic and ships as hosted SaaS, on-premise, or into fully air-gapped environments.
AgentZ is AccuKnox's platform for building, running and governing AI agents in production, launched on 27 August 2026. It bundles the agent, its execution environment, tools, workflows, permissions and audit trail into a single product so teams stop assembling and maintaining a stack of disconnected frameworks, sandboxes and secret stores. The model is deliberately plain: organisations contain workspaces, workspaces contain agents, workflows and reusable skills, and every agent executes inside its own sandbox, with users and roles layered across the hierarchy for centralised administration and access control. Each sandbox is separately configurable for vCPU, RAM, filesystem access, outbound domain allowlisting, package installation, environment variables and network controls, and credentials are injected at runtime rather than baked into agent code, with tool-level permissions deciding which capabilities an agent may actually invoke. Operators get visual workflow graphs, execution traces, tool-interaction logs and audit records for debugging and compliance review. AgentZ is model-agnostic — OpenAI, Claude, Grok and bring-your-own-LLM are supported, and the underlying model can be swapped without rebuilding agent infrastructure — and it ships as hosted SaaS with a free plan at agentzharness.ai, as an on-premise install, or into fully air-gapped environments. AccuKnox positions it as an AI platform with security designed in rather than a security product with AI bolted on, which follows from the company's background: founded in 2020 in Menlo Park in strategic partnership with SRI International, it maintains KubeArmor, the CNCF Sandbox runtime-security project, and sells a Zero Trust CNAPP alongside it.
Platform and security engineering teams that already have agent prototypes working and are blocked on the controls — sandboxing, credential handling, tool permissions and audit trails — that a security review will demand before production.
Agents run in per-agent sandboxes with runtime-injected credentials, tool-level permissions and full execution traces, so the governance story exists before deployment rather than being retrofitted after an incident.
At a Glance
- Category
- AI Agents & Orchestration
- Pricing
- Freemium, Subscription, Contact for pricing
- Target Market
- CTOs, CISOs, Platform Engineering Teams, Enterprise Developers
- Deployment
- Cloud-first, Self-hosted, Hybrid, Edge-first
- Founded
- 2020
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, California, United States
Key Features
- ✓Per-agent sandboxed execution
Every agent runs in its own isolated sandbox with configurable vCPU, RAM, filesystem access, package installation and network controls.
- ✓Runtime credential injection
Secrets are injected at execution time instead of being embedded in agent code or configuration, narrowing what a compromised agent can leak.
- ✓Tool-level permissions
Each agent is granted only the specific tools it needs, so calling a capability is an authorisation decision rather than an implementation detail.
- ✓Organisation, workspace and skill hierarchy
Organisations contain workspaces containing agents, workflows and reusable skills, with users and roles layered across for centralised administration.
- ✓Model-agnostic execution with BYO-LLM
Supports OpenAI, Claude, Grok and bring-your-own models, and lets teams swap the underlying model without rebuilding agent infrastructure.
- ✓Execution traces and audit logs
Visual workflow graphs, step-level execution traces and tool-interaction logs give engineers debugging data and auditors a compliance record.
- ✓Air-gapped and on-premise deployment
Runs as hosted SaaS, on-premise, or in fully air-gapped environments, which most hosted agent platforms cannot offer at all.
- ✓Outbound domain allowlisting
Restricts which external domains an agent's sandbox can reach, containing data exfiltration and prompt-injection-driven callouts.
Capabilities
Use Cases
- •Getting an agent past security review
A working prototype is rehomed onto AgentZ so it inherits sandboxing, scoped tool permissions and audit logging without the team building those itself.
- •Agents inside a regulated or classified network
Air-gapped deployment with a self-hosted model lets defence, public-sector or regulated teams run agents where SaaS platforms are prohibited outright.
- •Containing an untrusted tool-calling agent
Domain allowlisting, filesystem limits and package controls bound what a browsing or code-executing agent can reach when a prompt goes wrong.
- •Debugging non-deterministic agent failures
Visual workflow graphs and step-level execution traces show which tool call diverged, instead of leaving engineers reading raw model output.
- •Avoiding model vendor lock-in
Teams re-point production agents from one frontier model to another as pricing or capability shifts, without rewriting workflows or infrastructure.
Ideal For
Best For
- ✓Moving agent prototypes into production under controls a security team will accept
- ✓Running agents in air-gapped or on-premise environments where hosted agent platforms are not an option
- ✓Avoiding model lock-in by swapping between OpenAI, Claude, Grok or a self-hosted LLM without rebuilding agents
- ✓Constraining what tools, domains, packages and filesystem paths an agent can touch at execution time
- ✓Producing audit trails and execution traces for compliance review of autonomous agent behaviour
Not Ideal For
- ✗Teams that want a proven platform — AgentZ launched on 27 August 2026 and has no independent reviews, published case studies or production references of any kind yet
- ✗Organisations standardised on a hyperscaler's agent stack, where Microsoft, Google, AWS or Salesforce ecosystem integration will outweigh a smaller vendor's neutrality
- ✗Buyers who need transparent pricing for the enterprise tier: only the hosted free plan is public, and AccuKnox's existing platform is listed from roughly $2,500 to $20,000 per month
- ✗Teams without container and Kubernetes fluency — reviewers of AccuKnox's existing platform cite a learning curve that assumes those concepts
Deployment
Market Analysis
Pros
- ✓Security primitives are structural, not optional: per-agent sandboxes, tool-level permissions, runtime credential injection and domain allowlisting are how the platform works rather than a governance module sold separately
- ✓Air-gapped and on-premise deployment makes it viable for defence, public-sector and regulated buyers that cannot use hosted agent platforms at all
- ✓A free hosted tier means the platform can be evaluated technically before any sales conversation, which is unusual in enterprise agent tooling
- ✓AccuKnox has real open-source and research credibility — KubeArmor is a CNCF project with 900+ contributors, and the company was built in partnership with SRI International
Cons
- ✗Launched 27 August 2026, so literally everything known about AgentZ comes from the launch release — there are no independent reviews, benchmarks, case studies or production references for the product
- ✗AccuKnox is a small vendor: $6 million in disclosed seed-stage funding, competing against agent platforms from Microsoft, Google, AWS and Salesforce that arrive attached to ecosystems customers already own
- ✗Review depth on the vendor's existing products is thin — Capterra carries a listing with zero reviews and GetApp shows a rating with no reviews behind it — so buyer signal is weak even at the company level
- ✗Reviewers of AccuKnox's existing platform have cited a steep learning curve requiring Kubernetes knowledge and noted the product can be cost-prohibitive; both concerns plausibly carry into a self-managed AgentZ deployment
- ✗KubeArmor, the runtime-security foundation the security pitch leans on, is still at CNCF Sandbox maturity — explicitly the entry level for projects not yet widely tested in production
- ✗No security certifications are published for AgentZ specifically, which is exactly the evidence a security team will ask for when the differentiator is security
Pricing
Free (hosted SaaS)
$0
- ✓Hosted at agentzharness.ai
- ✓Sign-in with GitHub or Google
- ✓Build and run agents, workflows and skills
- ✓Sandboxed execution
Enterprise / self-managed
Contact for pricing
- ✓On-premise and air-gapped deployment
- ✓Bring-your-own-LLM
- ✓Organisation and workspace administration with roles
- ✓Audit logs and execution traces
- ✓Zero-trust runtime controls
Only the hosted free plan is public — AgentZ launched on 27 August 2026 with a free tier at agentzharness.ai and no published rate card for on-premise, air-gapped or enterprise deployment, so those go through sales. The nearest available signal is AccuKnox's existing Zero Trust CNAPP, listed on Capterra at roughly $2,500 per month for Starter up to $20,000 per month for Enterprise with usage-based allocation and a free trial; treat that as an indication of the vendor's enterprise price band, not as AgentZ pricing.
Security & Compliance
Sources
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