Oso for Agents

Agents are here.
Oso makes them safe.

Continuous visibility and control for every agent, prompt,and tool call — across your organization.

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Why Oso for Agents?

Agents move faster than the systems built to govern them. Static controls, limited visibility, and after-the-fact review don't hold up when agents can access code, data, tools, and systems in a single session.

Without continuous visibility and control, that access creates risk at machine speed. Teams end up stuck between overexposed agents and agents too constrained to be useful.

"We want partners who understand where security is headed, not just where it's been. Oso gets that agentic systems need fine-grained authorization baked in from the start."

Mark Hillick
CISO, Brex

"You can't prompt your way to least privilege. Oso
wires it into every call."

Jared Rosoff
VP of Infra, Roblox
Trusted by the world's fastest-moving teams

FAQs

What is Oso for Agents?

Oso for Agents is a platform for organizations to discover, monitor, detect, and control AI agent activity inside their company. It addresses the problem that AI coding agents, browser agents, and other autonomous tools often run with broad inherited permissions and no visibility or audit trail. Oso for Agents lets security and IT teams see every agent running across endpoints, browsers, and network traffic; monitor every prompt, tool call, and response; get alerted on policy violations or sensitive data exposure; and enforce rules on what agents can and can't do.

What problem does Oso for Agents solve?

AI agents inherit human-scale permissions and act on them at machine speed, creating security risk that traditional access controls weren't built to handle. Oso provides the visibility and enforcement layer that fills this gap.

What is Shadow AI, and how does Oso address it?

Shadow AI refers to AI agents and tools that employees are using without IT or security teams knowing about them — installed on laptops, running in browsers, or making network calls outside sanctioned channels. Oso for Agents continuously inventories agent activity across all these surfaces so organizations can identify unsanctioned tools and shut them down or bring them under policy.

What does Oso monitor in an AI agent session?

For approved agents routed through Oso's edge proxy, Oso captures every prompt sent to the model, every completion returned, every tool call made, and the data that flows through the session. This produces a full, step-by-step timeline of what the agent did — useful for incident investigation, compliance, and audit.

What kinds of alerts does Oso generate for agents?

Oso generates alerts for: detection of unsanctioned agents, PII appearing in agent sessions, API keys surfacing in prompts or completions, high-velocity unusual behavior, violations of custom policies (e.g., "block unknown MCP servers," "deny all delete operations," "allow only ChatGPT and Claude").

Why can't you just prompt-engineer your way to safe agents?

Prompt-based safety isn’t enough. Prompting an agent to "only do safe things" is not enforceable — it is not a technical control. Oso enforces policy at the infrastructure level, so what agents can access and do is constrained by actual authorization rules, not instructions the model may ignore or be tricked into bypassing.

What is Oso for Apps?

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Who uses Oso?

Oso is trusted by organizations including Duolingo, Vanta, and Brex. You can view read case studies on our customers page.

How do I get started with Oso for Agents?

Agent traffic is routed through Oso's edge proxy. See the quickstart docs at osohq.com/docs/oso-for-agents/quickstart-coding-agents or meet with us.

Where to go from here

RESEARCH

The Least Privilege Report

96% of permissions are never used. When agents inherit them, over-permissioning becomes a security crisis.

REGISTRY

Agents Gone Rogue Registry

We monitor agentic failures, exploits, and emerging attack patterns to help organizations identify and mitigate real risks.

DEMO

Book time with an Oso engineer

See how leading teams run coding agents safely in production — built around your stack and threat model.