Best Alternatives to Catalyst Governance

Runtime authority for AI agents: credential mediation, spend cap, approval gates, audit log.

Reliability + security proxy for MCP: runtime tool-security and a compliance-mapped audit trail.

Intent-bound action authorization for AI agents: policy, human approval, and a signed audit trail.

Connects AI agents with CrowdStrike Falcon for security analysis and automation.

Guardian layer for AI agents: identity, secrets, audit via MCP.

Control Plane

Runtime: Remote (SSE)

Enterprise AI governance: spend, guardrails, policy, budgets, compliance, and provider health.

Shield

Runtime: npx

Local MCP proxy that enforces adaptive guardrails to block destructive AI agent tool calls and protect supply chain.

AI governance for agents: policy enforcement, cost tracking, and audit trails

Helixar Security

Runtime: Remote (SSE)

Security tools for AI agents: scan MCP servers, validate HDP delegation chains, audit releases.

Agentward

Runtime: npx

Permission control proxy enforcing least-privilege policies and auditing AI agent tool calls at runtime.

Emilia Protocol

Runtime: npx

Adds named-human approval, trust receipts, verification, disputes, and delegation for consequential AI-agent actions.

Mcp Maigret

Runtime: npx

MCP server for Maigret, an OSINT tool to search usernames and analyze URLs across public social networks.