The control layer for agent autonomy.
AI agents drift. KYDE detects it, quarantines it, and makes agents safe enough to run in critical environments.
Behavioral drift is measurable from operational behavior. The detection core can be deterministic. When you can detect drift at runtime, you can safely increase an agent's autonomy.
Not on the machine. Not in the agent. KYDE sits outside, in the request path between your agents and every LLM provider — every action intercepted, scoped, and signed before it executes. Outside the agent. Cannot be overridden.
$ export OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://kyde.intranet/v1Zero code changes. One environment variable. Provider-agnostic, MCP-ready, <100 ms target latency.
AI agents change their behavior over time. They keep running. They report success. They are no longer doing the same work.
That is behavioral drift. In a demo it is an anecdote. In a factory, a grid, a bank, or critical infrastructure it is an incident waiting for a record that does not exist.
Vendors grade their own homework. Provider logs live on their infrastructure, signed with their keys. The suspect can't write the police report.
Know what your agents are actually doing.
Every action crosses KYDE. We build a behavioral baseline for each agent and continuously test what happens against it.
When behavior changes, KYDE detects the deviation. High-risk agents can be quarantined automatically. The underlying record remains available for investigation and independent verification.
- OBSERVE — Every action at the boundary. Who acted, against which model, reaching which tool, why. Written as it passes — not reconstructed later from four vendor consoles.
- DETECT — Drift against the agent's own baseline, from operational behavior, in real time. Deterministic at the core.
- QUARANTINE — Restrict autonomy before a deviation becomes an incident. Deny-by-default at the boundary. The damage doesn't happen first and get explained later.
- INVESTIGATE — Replay what changed. Same run, present model. "Something feels off" becomes a difference you can point at.
- PROVE — An audit trail architecturally independent of every LLM provider: Ed25519-signed, hash-chained, captured at the boundary, undeletable by any agent.
Zero Trust is the mechanics. Behavioral drift is the problem. Autonomy is the outcome.
An agent doesn't become trustworthy because someone switched it on. It earns autonomy by demonstrating that it can operate within its intended behavior over time.
Detect drift → restrict autonomy → investigate → restore when proven.
Start with limited responsibility. Increase it as the record shows the agent held its lane. A worker that stops producing that evidence comes back down.
KYDE is the layer that lets companies trust autonomous AI enough to let it do real work.
Behavioral Drift in Autonomous LLM-driven Systems
Our research surveys the detection landscape and asks a simple question:
Can we detect when an AI agent stops behaving like itself — deterministically, in real time, from the actions it actually takes?
KYDE is the infrastructure that follows from that question. Not a slogan we invented after the product. The product of a problem we are measuring.
KYDE Gateway Starter — free, self-hosted, source-available. Docker Compose plus one environment variable gives you an independent witness for every agent action: dashboard, hash-chained append-only ledger, coverage indicator, DLP alerts, compliance exports. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and local models.
Observe first. Enforce when ready.
Gateway Enterprise adds inline enforcement, HSM-backed signing, deny-by-default role scoping, per-tool MCP policy, quarantine of drifted agents, and the KYDE Trust Score™ with Coverage Report — behavior rated across every provider in the same currency.
Factories · Energy · Infrastructure · Finance
Also: insurance, healthcare, public sector, manufacturing. Built for NIS-2, DORA, the EU AI Act, and GDPR from day one — built with regulated industries, not for them.
Your agents are a workforce. Your workforce is critical infrastructure. Govern accordingly.
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Early stage. Based in Germany. Building the layer that lets autonomous AI do real work.
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Early stage. Based in Germany. Building for the industries where failure has consequences.