AI Agent
Cynative
Open-source AI tool for deep infrastructure research, running frontier models across code, cloud, and runtime to deliver verified answers.
Cynative
What is Cynative?
Cynative is an open-source AI agent that performs deep research on your infrastructure by reasoning through GitHub, GitLab, AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes as a single system, writing and running sandboxed code to fan out queries and cross-checking findings for verification.
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How to use Cynative?
- 1Install via Homebrew: brew install cynative/tap/cynative
- 2Set your LLM provider and API key (e.g., export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=...)
- 3Run a task: cynative -p "which IAM roles can escalate to admin?"
- 4For interactive sessions: cynative "live cloud resources absent from IaC - drift"
Cynative Key Features
- Code-to-runtime reasoning across cloud, Git, and Kubernetes
- Action-gate enforces read-only policy on every API call
- Sandboxed JavaScript execution for concurrent research
- Evidence-based verification of all findings
- One binary, no external dependencies, data sovereignty
Cynative Use Cases
- Security audit of cloud permissions and IAM roles
- Detection of cloud drift and unmanaged resources
- Tracing high-risk permissions to source commits
- Finding leaked credentials and assessing blast radius
Cynative Pricing & Free Credits
Cynative currently operates on a Free model.
This tool is completely free to use
Cynative Pros & Cons
Pros
- Read-only by construction prevents accidental writes
- Evidence-backed verification cross-checks every finding
- Sandboxed code execution limits blast radius
- Supports multiple LLM providers for flexibility
Cons
- Requires an LLM API key, incurring token costs
- Limited to read-only operations, cannot remediate
- Setup requires familiarity with CLI and cloud credentials
What is Cynative best for?
- Security engineers
- DevOps teams
- Cloud architects