Our agents use only the MCP servers and skills we’ve vetted.
Context
An agent loads a skill that is not on the vetted list.
Decision
Block
Reason
Blocked by "Approved tooling". Unlisted skills are set to block.
Agentic enablement for every team
AI agents act on your behalf.
They should only do what you intend.
Business intent is what your company wants from AI: what agents should do, and what they shouldn’t.
See all agentic activity against that intent, and stop what doesn’t fit before it happens.
Free monitoring and intent-based control. No seats to count, no trial clock.
Intentions
Declare what agents should do. Review what they actually did.
+ New intent
- 1Company data leaves only through services we’ve reviewed.Observe · Notifies
- 2Our credentials and secrets never leave the org.Enforce · Blocks
- 3Customer card data stays inside our approved payment systems.Enforce · Blocks
- 4Platform engineers sign off before their agents use credentials.Enforce · Blocks
- 5Patient data only goes to vendors we have a BAA with.Enforce · Blocks
- 6Production databases stay safe from destructive changes.Enforce · Blocks
Based on your intent and activity, Backplanes will automatically make your agents safe.
Built by people who’ve been on the other side of this.
Built by leaders and practitioners from
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How it works
Intent-based visibility and control.
Say what you want from your agents. Everything you see and control follows from it.
What intent means →Intent
Start with intent.
Write what you want from your agents in plain English. One sentence, not hundreds of rules. Use ready-made intents, or write your own.
For exampleCustomer data only goes to services approved to handle it.
Visibility
See the activity.
You can always see what’s behaving the way you want and what isn’t.
For example, in one week
- 1,240 as you intended
- 3 not as intended
Control
Control it.
Proactively keep activities you don’t want from happening in the first place. Prevent the outcome, don’t clean it up.
For exampleAn agent tries to send customer data to an unapproved service. It never arrives.
Start for free
Installs in a minute. No seats to count, no trial clock.
The product
Every agent, held to your business intent.
Take one intent: our agents use only the MCP servers and skills we’ve vetted.
See how it’s holding.
One look tells you what’s behaving the way you want and what isn’t.
Dashboard
How your intent is working
Our agents use only the MCP servers and skills we’ve vetted.
- 1,240 agent actions checked
- 1,234 as you intended
- 6 not as intended
6 actions tried tools you haven’t vetted. All 6 were blocked.
Backplanes handles the rest.
Once you’ve said what you want, there’s nothing to approve one by one. Backplanes keeps your agents on it automatically.
Dashboard
Nothing needs a decision.
Backplanes blocked 6 actions in the last 14 days. There’s nothing for you to do.
- Blocked automatically2h ago
Agent Juniper
Tried an unvetted MCP server
- Blocked automaticallyYesterday
Agent Linden-05
Tried a skill that isn’t on your list
- Blocked automatically3d ago
Agent Alder-12
Tried an unvetted MCP server
Know every agent in your org.
Backplanes shows every agent, who owns it, and whether it’s enforcing your intents.
Inventory
Your fleet
Every agent, who owns it, and how it’s running.
Coverage
- 126 enrolled agents
- 118 enforcing policy
- 126 active now
Agent inventory
Juniper
AG·078CB9
Mara Venn
#platform-engineering
Claude Code
Enforcing
2m ago
Linden-05
AG·3A1443
Imani Cole
#payments-eng
Codex
Enforcing
6m ago
Laurel-09
AG·40168A
Theo Park
#data
Cursor
Monitor-only
11m ago
In practice
Tell us what you want, in your own words.
Each intent is a plain sentence about how your org intends its agents to behave. Here is the moment each one came up, and the reason behind the decision.
Our credentials and secrets never leave the org.
Context
An agent is about to print an API key into its output.
Decision
Block
Reason
Blocked by "Credential exposure". The command would have revealed a credential.
Customer card data stays inside our approved payment systems.
Context
An agent reaches for card-sync.xyz, a service outside your payment systems.
Decision
Block
Reason
Blocked by "Payment systems". Your team ruled this destination out.
Platform engineers sign off before their agents use credentials.
Context
An agent goes to read a credential partway through a task.
Decision
Approval
Reason
Paused by "Credential access". It carries on once the engineer approves.
Company data leaves only through services we’ve reviewed.
Context
An agent calls a file-sharing service nobody has reviewed.
Decision
Warn
Reason
Flagged by "External egress". This destination is tagged as unreviewed.
Production databases stay safe from destructive changes.
Context
During a cleanup, an agent runs DROP TABLE through a database client.
Decision
Block
Reason
Blocked by "Destructive commands". The command matched a destructive pattern.
Rolling it out
Roll it out the way you roll out everything else.
Through your MDM
Your IT team pushes Backplanes to managed machines with setup tokens, so your people don’t have to install it or sign in.
With the installer
Starting with one team? Anyone can install it and sign in to your org from the browser. Sign up free →
- Works on all major operating systems
- macOS
- Linux
- Windows
Coverage
One intent, everywhere your agents work.
Keeping agents on track usually takes a point solution for every job. Backplanes can replace them: state the intent once, and it holds across all of this.
- Coding harnessesWorking with no setup. Anything you build yourself reports through the Python SDK.Instead of a separate setup for each tool
- MCP servers and toolsIndividually governable, not just per serverInstead of an MCP gateway
- Skills and pluginsIncluding which specific build is runningInstead of a skill scanner
- CommandsMatched after normalization, not by raw stringInstead of hand-written hooks
- External domainsEvery destination your agents reachInstead of an agent egress filter
- Monitor, warn and blockPlus the default for anything unlistedInstead of different settings in every tool
Controls written in plain language. State the outcome in a sentence, confirm what Backplanes derived from it, and see what it would have done before it enforces anything.
Trust
See exactly what we see.
Here is what Backplanes captures, what leaves your machine, and how we protect it.
What we capture
From your agents’ sessions
- Prompts and responses
- Commands your agent ran, and their output
- The contents of files your agent read or wrote, up to a size limit
- The domains and tools it used
- MCP servers, skills and subagents
Not captured
- Tools we don’t support
- Files your agent never read
- Apps your agent doesn’t use
What leaves your machine
Secrets and card numbers are masked on your machine before anything leaves it, on by default.
- An AWS access keyAKIAxxxxxxxxxxxx7F2XMasked
- A card number4123xxxxxxxx1234Masked
Sessions sync about every 15 minutes. Names, email addresses and phone numbers aren’t masked.
How we protect it
- Encrypted in transit, and session content is encrypted with a key unique to your org.
- Session data expires after 90 days by default.
- Delete an agent, your org or your account and its data is removed. Backups age out within about 35 days.
- Never sold, and never shared with advertisers.
Learn more about Trust →Security questions? security@backplanes.com
Pricing
Free monitoring and intent-based control.
Visibility and control are both on the Free plan, with no seats to count and no trial clock. Enterprise adds what larger orgs need, like SSO, role-based access and custom connections.
Start withBusiness intent.
Say what your business wants from AI, then see and control all agentic activity against it.
All of it is free, and Backplanes automatically keeps your agents safe.
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