Nexus / Gouvernance et Observabilité des Agents IA
Know what your agents do. Keep control of what happens next.
Voyez tout ce que font vos agents IA, bloquez ce qu'ils ne doivent pas faire et réduisez leurs coûts. Nexus capture chaque action, applique les politiques en temps réel et trace chaque agent, identité et connexion.
Console, DevTools and the desktop workspace are parts of one family. The role differs; the evidence connects.
Nexus console
See the estate. Find the exposure. Direct the response.
An enterprise view of agents, identities, connected systems and developer activity. Investigate findings, inspect policy decisions and understand the evidence behind reported costs.
Agent and identity inventory with relationship and exposure views.
Findings, policies and pending approval records in a shared governance surface.
Token attribution and application cost views that distinguish reported usage, derived prices and missing evidence.
Shared Swfte sign-in and an authenticated backend proxy are implemented in current source.
Integration availability and boundaries
Data availability depends on connected producers; missing cost and governance history remain absent.
The current canonical console is /v2. Older /nexus, /v2c and /v2-legacy routes redirect; some retired surfaces have no modern equivalent.
Local source inspection does not establish current cloud availability, tenant configuration, certification or a service-level commitment.
Nexus DevTools
Make every coding-agent session accountable.
Capture activity locally, apply policy at supported execution hooks and inspect the cost of AI-assisted development. Start with Claude Code or Codex and choose what your workspace receives.
Wrap Claude Code and Codex sessions through the Nexus CLI.
Local event ledger with a metadata-only default and configurable privacy tiers.
Policy checks for supported tool actions, protected paths and configured restrictions.
Session, change and usage evidence with savings instrumentation where a baseline is available.
Optional workspace forwarding and a local-session mode that disables captured-data forwarding.
Integration availability and boundaries
Provider registry entries are not equivalent to installed hooks or complete enforcement coverage.
Codex coverage can be partial; shell integration can fail open unless strict mode is configured.
No universal savings percentage, guaranteed cost reduction or automatic quality guarantee is established.
Local-only captured data does not mean the wrapped model itself makes no network requests.
The open-source/self-hosted stack and pip distribution are described as forthcoming in the README; no general-availability claim is warranted.
Nexus workspace
One workspace for the agents doing the work.
Run and inspect coding sessions in a native workspace, with visible governance coverage, session context and a runtime designed to preserve continuity across tools.
Native Tauri application with a Rust session daemon and interactive attached terminals.
Session fleet view with start/end controls backed by native commands.
Governance states distinguish governed, ungoverned, partial and unknown coverage.
Cost components distinguish priced, partial and unknown spend.
The Baton contract defines work handoff and lineage between harnesses; role and workflow design share that boundary.
Integration availability and boundaries
Desktop release availability, supported installation targets and commercial packaging were not established in this source audit.
Broad multi-harness positioning does not prove equal hook coverage across all named agents.
Roles, workflows and handoff architecture must not be presented as fully shipped desktop journeys solely because design documents exist.
The root README foundation label is incomplete: the current tree contains substantial Rust and native application implementation.
Every agent action, captured at the source.
Nexus wraps the agent runtime itself. Events stream from the terminal to a durable local ledger, then roll up to the governance console: who did what, in which repo, on which terminal.
Event
When
What Nexus records
session
Agent session starts
Terminal ID, user (git email), repo, branch, commit, model and provider
prompt
Every prompt submitted
Fingerprint and length only at the default privacy tier. No prompt text leaves the machine
tool_action
Before every tool call
Tool, target, and a blocked flag with the policy reason when Nexus says no
dependency_install
npm / pnpm / yarn / pip / mvn / cargo
Package and version, giving supply-chain visibility for every agent-initiated install
file_change
Every edit or write
Repo-relative path plus a protected flag when a policy-guarded file is touched
token_usage
Every turn
Input, output, baseline vs. compressed tokens, savings, and cost
Privacy by default: at the standard capture tier, prompt content is never stored — only a fingerprint and length.
Governance that pays for itself.
The same event stream that powers the audit trail meters every token. Nexus attributes AI spend per terminal, per repo, and per user, and measures exactly what context compression and output filtering save you.
01 / Savings
Baseline vs. actual
Every turn records baseline tokens, compressed tokens, and the delta, so savings are measured, not estimated. You see the real cost of every session and what it would have cost without optimization.
02 / Savings
Cost attribution
Spend rolls up by user, repo, terminal, and model. Runaway sessions and expensive workflows surface immediately instead of at invoice time.
03 / Savings
Waste elimination
Per-command output filtering and context compression cut the tokens agents burn on verbose tool output: typically the largest single source of avoidable agent spend.
Trace every agent. Every connection. Every change.
Observability tells you what happened. Nexus also decides what is allowed to happen, and maps the identities and connections behind it all.
01 / Governance
In-flight policy blocking
Nexus sits between the agent and your system. Protected files, forbidden commands, and unapproved dependency installs are denied before they execute, with the reason logged to the audit ledger.
02 / Governance
Audit trail: prompt → change → why
Every change an agent makes is traceable back through the tool action and the prompt that caused it. Security review stops being archaeology; the trail is already assembled.
03 / Governance
Shadow-AI detection
Unmanaged agents, unsanctioned model providers, and unknown non-human identities surface as findings. This is the AI usage your existing SaaS security tooling cannot see.
04 / Governance
Identity graph + blast radius
Every agent and non-human identity in one inventory, with a connection graph that answers the question that matters in an incident: if this credential is compromised, what can it reach?
05 / Governance
Supply-chain visibility
Agent-initiated package installs are first-class events. Know which agent added which dependency, in which repo, on which terminal, before it ships.
06 / Governance
Policy-as-code
Governance rules are declared, versioned, and evaluated continuously, rather than captured as screenshots of settings pages. Findings show exactly which policy failed and where.
Start where the work is. Broaden when the evidence is.
01 / Rollout
Start with visibility.
Connect supported developer workflows and establish what is captured, what is missing and what is attributable.
02 / Rollout
Agree the controls.
Choose the policy boundaries and approval responsibilities that are appropriate for the environment.
03 / Rollout
Expand the evidence.
Review coverage and adoption before broadening the rollout. Keep the gaps visible.
Go deeper. No email wall.
Ungated guides on the problems Nexus was built for: no email wall, no PDF download.
Nexus is an AI-agent governance and observability platform. It captures what coding agents like Claude Code actually do: every session, tool action, file change, dependency install, and token spent. It enforces policy in-flight by blocking violations before they execute, and gives security teams an inventory of agents and non-human identities with an identity graph and blast-radius analysis.
How does Nexus capture agent activity?
A lightweight wrapper hooks the agent runtime (for Claude Code, via native hooks) and streams structured events to a local collector and durable ledger. Events flow to the Nexus console for per-terminal, per-repo, per-user visibility. At the default privacy tier, prompts are captured as fingerprint and length only. No prompt text is stored.
Can Nexus block an agent action, not just log it?
Yes. Nexus evaluates policy before the tool call executes. Protected files, denied commands, and unapproved installs are blocked in-flight, with the reason recorded in the audit trail. That is enforcement, not just observability.
How does Nexus reduce AI spend?
Nexus meters token usage per turn (input, output, baseline versus compressed) and attributes cost per terminal, repo, and user. Teams use it to find runaway sessions, enforce budgets, and measure what context compression and output filtering actually save.
Does Nexus work with agents other than Claude Code?
The capture wrapper is agent-agnostic by design; Claude Code is the deepest integration today via its hook system. The governance console inventories any agent or non-human identity reachable through its connectors, and transcript import covers agents without native hooks.
Is Nexus open source?
Nexus is open-core. Capture, forwarding, and enforcement are open source and always available. The intelligence layer, covering audit trails, metrics, knowledge harvesting, and security modeling, runs against an Enterprise backend: either Nexus cloud or self-hosted.
Implementation evidence is based on current Nexus repositories. It does not establish commercial availability, universal agent coverage or any deployment-specific security guarantee.