Warden — Runtime governance for AI coding agents

Compiled Instinct.

Your AI agent can build features in minutes — or delete your database, loop for 80 turns, and fill the context window with noise. Warden is the invisible layer that makes agents trustworthy. One install. Zero config.

<2msIPC latency
300+safety rules
60–95%output compression
100%local & private
4runtime engines
3+agents supported

See it in action

Watch Warden intercept an AI agent's tool calls in real time.

Guard

Compiled safety rules evaluate every tool call in a single pass. Destructive commands, hallucinated flags, secret exposure, prompt injection — blocked before they execute. Sensitive path detection, zero-trace enforcement, and convention-aware rewrites keep your codebase safe. The agent doesn't get to argue.

Steer

Session intelligence tracks phase, drift, focus, loops, and verification debt in real time. Healthy sessions run silently. Struggling sessions get targeted interventions — checkpoint prompts, thrash detection, scope warnings, and replan suggestions. Trust scoring gates autonomy so the agent earns freedom, not noise.

Optimize

Output compression shrinks verbose build logs into concise summaries. Tool substitutions silently swap to faster CLIs. Between sessions, a background engine mines patterns — what worked, what failed, which conventions matter. It builds a resume packet so the next session starts with context the previous one earned.