Local security monitor · Windows PCs and Linux servers
Agents, package scripts and servers run code with your credentials. Argus watches the machine: what is running, what starts on its own, what could take or keep control, and what has quietly changed. It keeps the evidence locally and says plainly what it cannot see.
code in ~/work/apicurl to an unseen host~/.config/systemd/user/upd.serviceIllustration of the timeline format. Every line keeps its evidence.
01 Monitoring
Processes, autostarts, accounts, network activity, sensors and firewall state are observed and joined into one timeline, so every change has a before and an after. What is recorded comes first; what responds to it comes second.
02 Processes
Argus shows what runs because you opened an editor, a repository or a shell, which is exactly where a coding agent works. It looks for anything hiding from the normal process list and anything in a position to lie to these checks.
03 Data
Argus finds credentials sitting in plain text on the disk and shows where they are. Its own findings stay on the machine: the dashboard listens only locally and there is no telemetry. Automatic actions are limited to reversible containment, written to a ledger, with an undo.
Ask it a question
No dashboard to decode. You ask, it answers with the evidence behind it, and with what it could not check.
How it responds
Processes, autostarts, accounts, network activity, sensors and firewall state.
Events are joined into a timeline so a change has a before and an after.
Findings come with the evidence behind them and with what could not be seen.
Reversible containment only when you switch it on. Anything more waits for you.
The server edition
Read-only capabilities, systemd units, nothing to configure to start. It audits SSH keys and configuration, sudo rules, systemd units, cron, password-guessing in the auth log, web shells in document roots, container exposure and kernel-level hiding.
curl -fsSLO https://www.archymedes.xyz/downloads/argus/argus-server-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar -xzf argus-server-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
sudo ./argus-server/install.shSigned releases. Verify the download against SHA256SUMS before installing.
Get Argus
Desktop
Audits the Windows host and the WSL2 side, and names its own blind spots. Free during the beta.
Download for WindowsServer
A .deb for Debian and Ubuntu, or a tar.gz for any systemd distribution. Free, with or without a review.
Pricing
Free
Desktop (beta) and server editions. Monitoring never depends on a licence.
$149per server, once
One week of observation on one Linux server, then a plain report: what happened that week and what Argus could not see. 14-day refund.
Buy a review$9per server, per month
The weekly report and change alerts after the review. Cancel any time.
Start WatchFree betathen $79 per year
Nothing stops working when the paid plan opens.
The review reports what Argus observed and what it could not see. It is not a security audit, a penetration test or a certification. Payments are handled by Stripe at checkout; Argus never sees your card.
What it cannot do