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Enterprise AI security teams that need to govern autonomous agents and block unauthorized actions before execution
About Kastra
Kastra is the authorization layer for AI systems, deciding what agents, models, and AI tools are allowed to do before they do it. It sits in the execution path of every prompt, tool call, shell command, database operation, and API request, evaluates each action against deterministic, attribute-based policy, and returns an allow, deny, redact, or escalate decision in under a millisecond. Unlike monitoring products that observe AI after it acts, Kastra blocks unauthorized behavior before it reaches a tool, API, database, or production system. Its unified control plane combines a policy engine, edge decision points, integrations, and a tamper-evident evidence vault that signs every decision for audit and replay. Kastra Edge brings local enforcement to developer machines, protecting Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, and other coding agents from destructive commands, secret exfiltration, unsafe file writes, and unauthorized tool use.
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$19.99 per month
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Free Version available.
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Kastra
Founded: 2026
United States
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