AI-generated scene: a glass conduit with light passing through ring checkpoints.
Conduit

CONDUIT · AGENT GOVERNANCE

The neutral fabric beneath every agent. Seven controls, one layer.

Conduit governs every agent, Mantle's and any other vendor's, from one layer: identity, authentication, tool exposure, policy, audit, observability and cost. MCP-native and A2A-compatible. Built for enterprises where every department now buys its own agents.

Book a 30-minute call → Talk to a Mantle SE
30–85%LLM cost reduction
$670Kshadow-AI breach premium
39%of dev time on integrations
$376BAI agent spend by 2027

A Mantle platform

WITH CONDUIT

Every agent known, scoped, audited and costed, whichever vendor built it.

  1. 1Identifies every agentA verifiable workload identity, scoped to what it may do.
  2. 2Enforces policy at the boundaryWhat each agent can call, for whom, within what budget.
  3. 3Records every actionTraces, audit trail and cost ledger in one place.
82

machine identities for every human in the organization

97%

of organizations with a breach of an AI model or app had no AI access controls

7

controls in one layer: identity, authentication, tool exposure, policy, audit, observability, cost

IDENTITY

Every agent has an identity scoped to what it may do.

  • Workload identity and machine-to-machine authentication for every agent
  • OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange (RFC 8693) with short-lived credentials
  • Central vault and ephemeral credentials: no agent stores long-lived tokens
  • Cross-App Access (XAA) compatible, so agents reach SaaS apps with auditable scope
TOOL EXPOSURE

Expose each system once and every agent can use it.

  • One MCP server per system, consumed by every agent that needs it
  • MCP-native; A2A-compatible for agent-to-agent calls
  • LLM gateway across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral and in-house models: route, cache, rate-limit, retry, fall back
  • Per-call routing to the model region your policy requires: EU, UK, KSA, UAE, US
POLICY

One policy plane decided in milliseconds, audited every time.

  • Rules per agent, per user, per tool and per budget
  • Every decision logged with its reason
  • Prompt-injection defense at the agent-to-tool boundary, not inside the agent (OWASP LLM01:2025, the top-ranked risk)
AUDIT AND COST

Every prompt, call and cost on one record.

  • OpenTelemetry-grounded traces of every prompt, tool call and model response, with replay and evaluation
  • SIEM-ready export to Splunk, Sentinel, Chronicle and Elastic, with immutable retention
  • One cost ledger across LLM spend, agent runtime and tool calls, attributed per team, agent and customer
Quantified outcomes

The fabric that makes the agent estate profitable.

Conduit is what turns a sprawl of agent endpoints into a controlled, observable, defensible operating layer — without locking you into any single vendor.

30–85% LLM cost cutRouting, caching, and rate-limiting across the LLM gateway. Portkey, Helicone benchmarks
$670K breach premium avoidedIBM 2025 shadow-AI breach premium — eliminated with proper AI access controls
39% dev capacity reclaimedMuleSoft Connectivity Benchmark: % of IT/dev time spent on custom integrations
One identity, every agentOAuth 2.0 Token Exchange (RFC 8693). Workload identity, M2M auth, short-lived creds
One audit trailEvery prompt, every tool call, every model decision — OpenTelemetry-grounded, immutable
One policy planeWhat can each agent call, for whom, with what budget — enforced in milliseconds
One cost ledgerPer-team, per-agent, per-customer cost attribution across LLM, runtime, tool calls
EU AI Act readyRecord-keeping, transparency, risk classification — native, on every agent
Vendor-neutralAnthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, in-house. Agentforce, Copilot, Now Assist. All compose

Every agent identified, scoped and audited. One layer.

mantlenow.com/products/conduit   Outcomes, accelerated.
Book a 30-minute call → Talk to a Mantle SE