Learn how teams govern AI agents.
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Quickstart
Connect your first agent, add a policy in monitor mode and find the audit record.
Read the guide ›Connect an agent
Send requests through the gateway with any OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible SDK.
Read the guide ›Policies, monitor and enforce
Every policy starts in monitor mode and blocks only after you promote it.
Read the guide ›Budgets and price books
How much agents and teams may spend, at the rates you actually pay.
Read the guide ›Choose SaaS or self-hosted
Hosted, in your cloud account, your data center or an isolated network.
Read the guide ›Security overview
How Clovie protects your data, your keys and your agents’ traffic.
Read the guide ›Latest releases
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
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.
Errors that say what stopped a request.
| Status | Code | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 403 | policy_denied | A policy in enforce mode denied the request. The message names the policy. |
| 400 | pii_detected | Personal data was found and your organization blocks it. The message names the kinds of data, never the values. |
| 403 | model_not_allowed | The model is not allowed for this agent, its team or its key. |
| 503 | agent_disabled | The 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).
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.