AI agents now take real actions on your behalf. The tools meant to watch them can't see them, lie about them, or leak them. This is the runtime that sees every action, enforces on your terms, keeps your data local, and proves what it did. Honestly.
The whole picture in a minute and a half: what agents can now do, how one poisoned instruction turns them against you, and how Crawdad reads every action on your machine and stops it — keeping your data local and proving what it did. The ten walkthroughs below go deeper.
AI agents don't just suggest anymore. They take real actions in your environment. That's the power, and the exposure.
A dashboard tells you your fleet is healthy. Crawdad tells you whether it's actually protected. Those aren't the same thing.
Before protection comes discovery. Crawdad shows you every agent talking to a model, and is honest about which ones it can reach.
Crawdad sits on the wire, on your machine, and reads every request an agent makes as it makes it, blocking the dangerous ones.
Crawdad's enforcement is a policy you can read in plain rules, and test against any action before it ever runs.
To protect an agent, Crawdad has to see everything it does. By design, none of that content ever leaves your machine.
Every decision Crawdad makes is written into a tamper-evident chain you can verify yourself, and that catches any change.
Crawdad shows you exactly what it catches, and what it doesn't. Trust is built on knowing precisely where you stand.
Protect every agent across a whole fleet from one screen, and hand every client cryptographic proof of every decision.
Agents are being handed real power faster than anyone is securing it. Crawdad is the runtime that keeps up.
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AI agents don't just suggest anymore. They take real actions in your environment. That's the power, and the exposure.
For a long time, AI just answered questions. That's changed. An agent doesn't tell you what to do. It does it. It runs the command. It reaches out to the network. It opens your files. It moves data. It calls other tools. It spends money. That's exactly why agents are so useful. And it's exactly what makes them worth protecting. Because the same agent that works for you can be turned against you. One carefully worded instruction, hidden in a document or a web page, and it hands over the keys it was trusted with. This is happening right now, on machines you already run. So there's really only one question worth asking. Who's watching what your agents actually do?
A dashboard tells you your fleet is healthy. Crawdad tells you whether it's actually protected. Those aren't the same thing.
Your fleet is green. Healthy. That's what the summary says. But green is a number. It rounds up. It gives you the average, not the truth. So look at what's actually happening underneath it. This is that same fleet. Its real enforcement posture. Twenty-three of these machines aren't enforcing anything. Offline, or paused. Crawdad won't call that green. Where protection isn't truly on, it tells you. Plainly. Green means one thing here. Protection is on, and it's holding. Nothing else earns the color. Because the fleet that looks fine, but isn't, is the one you need to know about first.
Before protection comes discovery. Crawdad shows you every agent talking to a model, and is honest about which ones it can reach.
Before you can protect anything, you have to find it. Most teams have no real idea how many agents are already talking to AI models inside their walls. Crawdad shows you every one of them. And it's honest about each. The agents it's actively protecting. The ones ready to protect, but not routed yet. And the ones it honestly can't reach, because they lock their own connection. No inflated number. Nothing quietly marked safe just because it was never seen. Now you can see all of them. The next question is whether you can stop what they do.
Crawdad sits on the wire, on your machine, and reads every request an agent makes as it makes it, blocking the dangerous ones.
Crawdad doesn't send your data somewhere to be checked. It sits right on the wire, on your machine, between your agent and the model it's talking to. And it reads every request the agent makes, the moment it makes it. Here it is against real attacks, live. An attempt to lift an API key. Stopped. Data on its way to an attacker. Stopped. A jailbreak. A poisoned document. A privilege grab. Stopped. And it doesn't just stop the attack. It tells you what it was. What happened. How it works. And what it would have cost you if it had gone through. All of it, on the record, in plain language. Enforcement is only as good as the rules behind it.
Crawdad's enforcement is a policy you can read in plain rules, and test against any action before it ever runs.
This is how Crawdad governs an agent. Not a description of it. The engine itself. A policy you can read, in plain rules, checked against every single thing an agent tries to do. Read the source code, that's fine. Read the credentials file, denied. Wipe a disk? Killed, before it can run. Four verbs. Allow, ask, deny, kill. Nothing buried. Every rule in the open. It even guards itself. An agent can't read the rules to learn how to slip past them. And you can test it. Ask what happens if an agent reaches for your cloud keys. You get the answer before anything ever runs. It sees everything your agents do. Which raises a fair question.
To protect an agent, Crawdad has to see everything it does. By design, none of that content ever leaves your machine.
To protect an agent, Crawdad has to see everything it does. Which raises the question a careful person always asks. What keeps the thing that sees everything from becoming the thing that leaks it? The answer isn't a promise. It's the architecture. Everything is inspected right here, on your machine. The content itself never leaves it. What leaves is a verdict. A category. A severity. Never the prompt. Never your data. And even that isn't a switch one person can flip. It takes two people who both have the authority. One asks. Another agrees. What keeps you safe stays yours. It sees, it enforces, it stays local. But can you prove what it did?
Every decision Crawdad makes is written into a tamper-evident chain you can verify yourself, and that catches any change.
Every decision Crawdad makes is written into a cryptographic chain. Each record tied to the one before it. Nothing gets quietly changed or removed. You can check the whole chain yourself, in seconds. Every entry, intact. And it shows you the math. Standard hashing, standard signatures. Verify it offline, on your own. Here's what matters most. When a record has been touched, it doesn't wave it through. It tells you. It found a change, and refused to call the chain clean. An audit trail is only evidence if it can prove it was never touched. See it. Stop it. Keep it local. Prove it. That's what protection actually means.
Crawdad shows you exactly what it catches, and what it doesn't. Trust is built on knowing precisely where you stand.
Here's a run of two dozen real attacks. Most of them, stopped cold. And these, in red. The ones that got through. Crawdad puts them right on the screen. Nothing rounded up. Nothing tucked away. Because knowing exactly where you stand is the whole point of a security tool. You see what it catches. You see what it misses. And you can watch that gap close, run after run. That's what earns trust. Not a number that flatters. The one that's real. And it holds up at scale. One machine is a demonstration. Your whole organization is the point.
Protect every agent across a whole fleet from one screen, and hand every client cryptographic proof of every decision.
One agent on one laptop is where it starts. A whole company, or every client you manage, is where it counts. From one console, you see every machine, and the true protection state of each. Push a policy to all of them at once. Change enforcement across the whole fleet. And when you dial protection back, it shows you exactly what you're touching, first. You can seal one client's data off completely. Invisible, even to you. Not a setting you trust. A boundary the console itself can't cross. And every client gets a cryptographic record of every decision made for them. It's here today. Proven at scale. The only question left is when.
Agents are being handed real power faster than anyone is securing it. Crawdad is the runtime that keeps up.
Agents are being handed real power faster than anyone is securing it. They're already in your environment. Reading. Acting. Spending. Deciding. You can wait for the moment that makes all of this obvious. The leaked key. The data that walked out. The action nobody signed off on. Or you put a runtime between your agents and everything they can touch. One that sees every action, on your machine. That enforces the rules you set, and lets you read them. That keeps your data yours. That proves everything it did. A summary tells you the average. Crawdad tells you the truth.