Audience
Software engineering teams, security teams, DevSecOps teams, platform engineering teams, AI engineering teams, CISOs, security leaders, and enterprises deploying AI coding agents.
About Harden
Harden AIF is an agent endpoint security platform for AI coding agents. It evaluates supported agent tool calls before execution using the developer’s intent, session context, organisational policy, and the effect of the proposed action.
Harden helps protect against destructive commands, unauthorized access, unintended data transfers, secret exposure, privilege misuse, and other unsafe agent actions. Legitimate actions can proceed normally, sensitive data in supported flows can be safely redacted, and actions that fall outside the developer’s intent or authority are blocked before execution.
Harden works across popular coding agents and agentic development tools including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity CLI, Kiro, Hermes, and OpenClaw, providing a consistent security layer across the agent ecosystem.
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Founded: 2025
United States
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