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Learn how teams govern AI agents.

Quickstart

Your first governed request in about fifteen minutes.

Connect one agent to Clovie, add a policy that only watches, and then find the record of what the policy decided. Nothing you do here blocks any traffic.

  • Add your provider key
  • Enable a model
  • Register your agent
  • Send a request through the gateway
  • Add a policy in monitor mode
  • Find the audit record

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Gateway API

The formats your SDKs already speak.

The gateway accepts the same request formats as the major model providers: Chat Completions, Messages and Responses, plus embeddings, images, audio, moderations, rerank, files and models.

Every request carries a Clovie key that identifies the caller: an agent's own agent key, a developer key, or a short-lived credential from the command-line tool for coding agents. Send it as a bearer token; on the Messages API you can send it in the x-api-key header instead, which is what Anthropic SDKs do.

Error codes

Errors that say what stopped a request.

StatusCodeMeaning
403policy_deniedA policy in enforce mode denied the request. The message names the policy.
400pii_detectedPersonal data was found and your organization blocks it. The message names the kinds of data, never the values.
403model_not_allowedThe model is not allowed for this agent, its team or its key.
503agent_disabledThe agent’s kill switch is on.

Every code, with what to do about it, is in the error code reference in the documentation (sign-in required).

Glossary

The words Clovie uses, in plain language.

Agent. Any program that calls AI models on your behalf, such as a support bot, a coding assistant or a batch job. Registering it gives it an owner, an environment and its own agent key.

Agent key. A key Clovie issues to one registered agent. The agent sends it with every request to the gateway, so Clovie knows which agent is calling and applies that agent's policies and budgets.

Approval gate. A policy outcome that pauses a request until a person approves or rejects it.

Allocation rule. A rule that assigns AI spend to a team, cost center or business unit, for example by agent, key or tag.

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We'll connect one of your agents with you and show the audit record it leaves.