Argus user guide

Argus is an open-source application security agent that reviews code the way an analyst does: it runs real scanners, reads their findings, weighs them against your organization’s context, and tells you in plain language what actually matters. Then you argue back — Argus answers.

It runs as one long-lived daemon per organization, reached where your team already works: a terminal chat, GitHub pull requests, and MCP from your own AI tools.

These pages are task-oriented — how to install Argus, configure it, connect it, and host it.

• Getting started — install, bootstrap, first chat
• Configuration — the full argus.yaml reference
• LLM providers — what Argus requires from a model, and how to verify yours
• GitHub channel — automatic pull-request reviews and talking to Argus on threads
• MCP channel — Argus as a consultable colleague for your AI tools
• Skills — using, writing, and overriding skills
• Kubernetes deployment — hosting Argus on a cluster