Govern AI agents before they touch tools, credentials, or production data.
Kontext helps security teams govern AI agents with runtime authorization, contextual risk assessment, scoped credentials, and audit trails for tool use.
Kontext for Security Teams. Kontext gives security teams a guardian agent for runtime authorization: identity verification, deterministic policy, contextual risk assessment, and brokered credentials at the tool boundary.
The security gap
AI agents can run shell commands, edit files, call MCP tools, and request credentials faster than humans can review every step. Static IAM roles and broad OAuth scopes do not explain whether a specific action matches the user's task. Long-lived secrets in environment files, terminal sessions, logs, and agent config create a larger blast radius when an agent is manipulated.
What Kontext gives security teams
- Decide before side effects: evaluate the user, agent, session, tool, action, resource, parameters, and risk context before a tool call reaches the external system.
- Broker credentials at runtime: keep API keys and OAuth tokens out of the agent environment and release scoped credentials only after policy and risk checks pass.
- Use context, not just rules: apply deterministic policy for hard boundaries, then use execution context to catch anomalous or bypass-like tool use.
- Preserve audit evidence: record who acted, which agent ran, what tool was requested, which policy matched, and why access was allowed, denied, narrowed, or escalated.
Centralized decision, federated enforcement
Security owns the decision model. Enforcement happens where agents actually operate: local developer machines, MCP tools, provider APIs, SaaS systems, and hosted governed sessions. Kontext verifies the actor, evaluates the requested action, assesses runtime risk, and enforces at the boundary by allowing, denying, narrowing, asking, or injecting a scoped credential.
Good first policies
- Block direct reads of secret files and unmanaged credential stores.
- Require approval for destructive commands, production resources, and broad data exports.
- Issue short-lived scoped credentials only after the tool request passes policy.
- Escalate anomalous tool paths that look like attempts to bypass the broker.
Explore security tools
- Guardian agent for endpoints (Kontext CLI): run agent tool calls through local policy checks, risk scoring, notifications, and redacted traces before rolling out team-wide controls.
- Credential broker for AI agents: move API keys and OAuth tokens out of the agent runtime and broker short-lived credentials at the tool boundary after policy approval. Read the docs.
Made for security teams
Security teams need fewer after-the-fact surprises and more enforceable decisions. Kontext helps teams move from logs and best-effort reviews to runtime authorization for tool calls, credential requests, and destructive operations.