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Why it ranks #916

Superagent, an AI application security engineer from YC W24, ranks #916 of 999 AI agents and #7 of 8 in Application security engineer, with a score of 1.2 of 10. Data as of .

The score adds four parts, each 0 to 10, by weight. Every point comes from public evidence. How scoring works ·

  1. Proof

    Do customers use it? 30% of the score

    0

    No public claims of customers or revenue yet.

    Not found: revenue or growth (+4), named customers (+3), a customer result (+2), a customer count (+2), work done at scale (+2)

  2. Scale

    Is there a real company behind it? 30% of the score

    1

    2 people.

    • +1
      2 people on its YC page2 people

    Not found: funding round in its news (+3)

  3. Momentum

    Is it shipping and growing now? 25% of the score

    0

    Nothing new in the last 6 months.

    Not found: launch YC post in the last 6 months (+3), open roles on YC (+2), new traction claim in the last 6 months (+2), funding news in the last year (+2), a batch in the last year (it is YC Winter 2024) (+1)

  4. Autonomy

    How much of the job does it do on its own? 15% of the score

    6

    Supervised agent: takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.

    • +6
      Level 2 of 4: Supervised agentTakes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
    What the model read
    • Acts in other systems: 58% likely
    • Finishes whole tasks: 11% likely
    • Calls itself an agent: 97% likely

    Level 2: Takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.

About Superagent

Superagent helps AI-native developers trust what they merge, control what their agents do, and show users it's safe.

We work in your coding agent and on GitHub:

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- Trust the change: checks on every pull request, before merge

- Control it where it runs: boundaries around what your agents can see, say, and do

- Break it before it ships: red teaming against what you actually run

Free for open source.

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Launches and news

  1. Launch YC29 Sep 2025Superagent — Defender of AI agents 🥷Superagent protects AI agents from attacks and data leaks
  2. Launch YC3 Sep 2025Superagent — the AI Firewall 🥷🔥Stops prompt injections, backdoors, and data leaks.
  3. Launch YC12 Aug 2025VibeKit 🖖 The Safety Layer for Your Coding AgentOpen-source sandboxing and observability for Claude Code, Gemini CLI, et al.
  4. Launch YC9 Jun 2025VibeKit 🖖 Run coding agents in a secure sandboxEmbed OpenAI Codex or Claude Code directly into your app.
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  1. Launch YC13 Mar 2024🥷 Superagent - Run any workflow using AIOpen-source platform that allows anyone to build AI-agent workflows

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