Agentic Index
Clawvisor vs OpenBox AI (2026)
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Both gate what an agent may do at the moment it tries. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Clawvisor is a source available authorization gateway that vaults credentials, limits each agent to the task a person approved, holds out of scope or risky calls for approval and records every tool call in a full audit trail, free to try in the cloud and free to self host. OpenBox wraps agents built on Temporal, LangChain, CrewAI, Mastra and other frameworks, checks each operation against guardrails, OPA policies and the agent's trust tier before it runs, routes risky operations to an approvals queue, and signs each session into a tamper evident proof certificate. Clawvisor holds the agent's credentials and scopes them to the task; OpenBox scores and tiers the agent itself and signs the record of what it did.
On the Agentic Index agent infrastructure ranking, neither Clawvisor nor OpenBox AI clears the bar, which asks for all five production contract capabilities documented in full. Clawvisor does not document security and identity governance in full, nor testing, debugging and optimization; OpenBox AI documents two of the five in full. 33 of the 186 vendors in the lane clear it. See the agent infrastructure ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Clawvisor and OpenBox AI are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,165 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Clawvisor if
- Source available code you can self host for free is the requirement.
- Credential vaulting is the immediate gap, since your agents currently hold secrets.
- Approving a task once, with only out of scope or risky calls held for a person, is the control your team wants first.
Choose OpenBox AI if
- Cryptographic proof of what an agent did is what your audit will ask for.
- You want controls that tighten or loosen as each agent's trust score changes with its compliance and goal alignment.
- Your agents already run on Temporal, LangChain, CrewAI or Mastra, which OpenBox's SDKs wrap in place.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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ClawvisorIntegrations & Tool Calling Fourteen service adapters let Clawvisor execute authenticated actions in outside systems on the agent's behalf. They cover Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive and Contacts. For messaging there are iMessage, Slack and Twilio, and for work tools GitHub, Notion, Linear and Granola, plus Stripe, Dropbox and Perplexity. Each adapter takes the agent's requested action, attaches the real credential from the vault inside the gateway and returns the result. Customers can write their own adapters against the source for internal APIs. Adapters both read and write, with credentials scoped per task and revoked when it ends. SendGrid, Jira, Salesforce and Airtable are coming soon. SourceClawvisor, clawvisor.com/integrations and /faqread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AIIntegrations & Tool Calling SDKs and plugins wrap agents built on Temporal (a Python plugin), LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI and Deep Agents in Python, and Mastra and CopilotKit Runtime v2 in TypeScript. An n8n community node and an OpenRouter SDK round out the set. Each operation the agent takes passes through OpenBox for a verdict. These integrations govern actions the customer's own framework takes. Agents cannot take authenticated action in an outside system through OpenBox. Cursor and OpenClaw integrations are coming soon. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/getting-started and /developer-guideread 2026-09-25 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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ClawvisorWorkflow Orchestration The product authorizes an agent's calls and does not run its work. A task is the authorized unit of work, made up of a purpose, the allowed tool calls and an approver. Each task moves through approval, scope expansion and expiry. The steps, their order and any handoffs between agents stay with the agent itself. SourceClawvisor, clawvisor.com/faq and the README at github.com/clawvisor/clawvisorread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AIWorkflow Orchestration The customer's framework, such as Temporal, LangGraph or CrewAI, owns the workflow, its steps and its handoffs, and OpenBox governs those runs without running them. A HALT verdict cancels the framework's workflow. Multi-Agent Sessions is a view of each team's runs. OpenBox names no workflow model of its own. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/core-concepts/governance-decisions and /administration/organization/teams/multi-agent-sessionsread 2026-09-25 |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
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ClawvisorTriggers & Channel Coverage Agents call the gateway, and Clawvisor does not start them. When a held request resolves or a task is approved, denied, expanded or expires, Clawvisor POSTs a callback to a URL the agent supplied. Those callbacks answer the agent's own requests and do not start new work. No event, schedule or channel in Clawvisor starts an agent. SourceClawvisor, README at github.com/clawvisor/clawvisorread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AITriggers & Channel Coverage The customer's own runtime, such as Temporal, LangChain or n8n, starts and runs the agent. OpenBox's SDKs wrap that agent, and every governance evaluation responds to an operation the agent began. Alerts on trust tier changes and goal drift flag agents for people to review, and they do not wake an agent. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/getting-started and /dashboard/alerts; docs.openbox.ai/dashboard/alertsread 2026-09-25 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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ClawvisorKnowledge Grounding & RAG The product gates the agent's calls and indexes none of the customer's documents for an agent to ground its answers on. Chain context extraction pulls identifiers from API responses, but only for Clawvisor's own checks. SourceClawvisor, clawvisor.com/faqread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AIKnowledge Grounding & RAG OpenBox is a governance layer around the customer's agent, and it names no way to index or retrieve the customer's documents for the agent to ground its answers on. Guardrails inspect the agent's inputs and outputs. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/overview and the docs index (llms.txt and llms-full.txt)read 2026-09-25 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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ClawvisorMemory & State Persistence The state Clawvisor keeps is about the agent's authorization. Chain context verification extracts structural facts (IDs, email addresses, phone numbers) from adapter results and feeds them into Clawvisor's own verification prompts for later steps. Standing tasks keep a grant open until revoked. Clawvisor applies both as rules, and the agent never reads them as context for its decisions. Clawvisor names no memory layer that the agent reads. SourceClawvisor, README at github.com/clawvisor/clawvisor and clawvisor.com/faqread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AIMemory & State Persistence Trust score history, approval history and behavioral rules that track patterns over several steps all describe the agent. OpenBox applies them as governance rules, and the agent never reads them as context for its decisions. The Enterprise plan includes Universal Agent Memory Governance, which governs the customer's memory instead of providing one, and OpenBox describes it no further. OpenBox names no memory layer or state the agent reads across runs. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/core-concepts/trust-scores, /trust-lifecycle/authorize/behaviors and openbox.ai/pricingread 2026-09-25 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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ClawvisorHuman Oversight & Guardrails A person approves each task's declared purpose before the agent can act. Calls outside that purpose, or that score high for blast radius, are held before they leave the gateway while the agent waits for a decision. High or critical risk tasks need a confirmation step. Sending an iMessage always requires approval, and any service or action can be blocked outright. Pending approvals expire after a set timeout, and people approve from the dashboard or a paired mobile device. SourceClawvisor, clawvisor.com/faq and /security, and the README at github.com/clawvisor/clawvisorread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AIHuman Oversight & Guardrails When an operation crosses a risk threshold, a policy calls for review or the agent's trust tier requires it, OpenBox returns REQUIRE_APPROVAL. The operation pauses and appears in the Approvals queue, where a reviewer approves, rejects or escalates it. An unanswered request expires. Who approved or denied, and when, is recorded with the decision. The Adapt tab shows each agent's pending approvals with risk tier, semantic action type and triggering rule, plus approval history and approval rate. Chained guardrails screen the inputs and outputs of every operation, and BLOCK and HALT verdicts stop an action or end the session. Each framework SDK has its own way of enforcing these verdicts. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/core-concepts/governance-decisions, /trust-lifecycle/adapt, /trust-lifecycle/authorize/guardrails and /administration/compliance-and-auditread 2026-09-25 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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ClawvisorSecurity, Identity & Governance SAML and OIDC single sign on ship for Enterprise orgs. Each agent authenticates to the gateway with its own bearer token, and management API tokens are scoped, revocable and hashed at rest. Every tool call is limited to the task a person approved, with blocked lists of services and actions for least privilege tool access. No SOC 2, ISO or other attestation is published. Clawvisor asks customers to verify its security claims by reading the public source, and its README warns that the software is experimental and has not been audited for security. Clawvisor names no RBAC or ABAC model. SourceClawvisor, clawvisor.com/faq and /security, and the README at github.com/clawvisor/clawvisor (linked from clawvisor.com)read 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AISecurity, Identity & Governance Admin, Developer and Viewer roles are set under Organization > Permissions. A Viewer can see agents, logs and reports but cannot change anything. Teams decide which agents a member can see and which sessions they can act on. Each agent also carries its own cryptographic identity, a DID and an Ed25519 signing key kept separate from its API key. OPA/Rego policies run stateless permission checks on every agent operation, giving least privilege tool access. An organization audit log records who changed what. OpenBox names no identity provider integration such as SSO, SAML or SCIM. OpenBox shows ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and NIST badges on its site, but none links to a certificate, auditor, report or date. It names SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR only as frameworks it maps its customers' audit evidence to. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/administration/organization, /administration/organization/teams, /core-concepts/agent-identity and /trust-lifecycle/authorize/policies, plus the openbox.ai footer and /solution/complianceread 2026-09-25 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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ClawvisorObservability & Auditability Every protected tool call is recorded with its action, arguments, policy decision and the task that authorized it. Each record can be replayed and is tied to the person who approved the work, and every purpose declaration and credential injection is recorded too. Activity rolls up by task and approver, so a customer sees which accounts each agent touched, and the web and terminal dashboards show it live. The managed cloud adds extended log retention on the Pro plan. SourceClawvisor, clawvisor.com/security, /faq and /pricingread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AIObservability & Auditability Session Replay steps through an agent session event by event, showing every tool call, governance decision and full JSON payload. The Monitor tab tracks each agent's invocations, response time and token use, along with cost and errors, over selectable time ranges. Every governance decision goes into an immutable audit trail with verdict, reason, workflow and run IDs and approval metadata, and the trail exports on demand. Each session's events are hashed into a Merkle tree and signed into a tamper evident proof certificate, through AWS KMS by default or the customer's own attestation service. An organization audit log records user and configuration changes, separate from the runtime traces. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/trust-lifecycle/session-replay, /trust-lifecycle/monitor, /administration/compliance-and-audit and /administration/attestation-and-cryptographic-proofread 2026-09-25 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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ClawvisorDeployment & Data Residency Customers choose between a managed cloud and self hosting inside their own network from the public source, which runs as a gateway service plus a datastore for the vault and audit log. Purpose verification, risk scoring, the vault and the audit trail work the same either way. When self hosted, credentials and traffic never leave the customer's network. Setup guides cover Docker, VPS, container platforms and Cloud Run. Data residency options are planned as future Enterprise work. SourceClawvisor, clawvisor.com/faq and /pricing, and the README at github.com/clawvisor/clawvisorread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AIDeployment & Data Residency The Enterprise plan includes Custom Deployment and SLAs, with no named environment, region or way to choose one. Every SDK guide points the agent at the hosted endpoint core.openbox.ai. OpenBox publishes no region list and names no self hosted or customer cloud option. External attestation lets the customer sign proof certificates with its own attestation service or a Trusted Execution Environment. That choice sets where the signing key sits, not where OpenBox runs. OpenRouter routing policies can restrict model providers by data residency, which applies to the customer's model traffic, not to where OpenBox itself is deployed. SourceOpenBox, openbox.ai/pricing, docs.openbox.ai/getting-started/deep-agents and /administration/attestation-and-cryptographic-proofread 2026-09-25 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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ClawvisorPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs No ready made agents, workflows or templates ship with the product. Its fourteen service adapters are integrations, and the installable skill only teaches an agent to route its calls through the gateway. SourceClawvisor, clawvisor.com/integrations and /faqread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AIPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Four guardrail types, covering PII detection, content filtering, toxicity and banned words, can be chained into a pipeline for each agent. Three preconfigured risk profiles (low, medium and high) set an agent's starting trust tier. These are modules of one governance engine that the customer assembles, plus presets for settings. OpenBox names no catalog of ready made agents, workflows or policies. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/trust-lifecycle/authorize/guardrails and /trust-lifecycle/assessread 2026-09-25 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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ClawvisorModel Flexibility & Routing When self hosting, the operator picks the model behind Clawvisor's own AI checks (intent verification, task risk scoring and optional chain context extraction). The choices are Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, Groq or a local Ollama model, set in the setup wizard or config with the customer's own key. On the managed cloud Clawvisor chooses the model. The proxy-lite runtime, which presents Anthropic and OpenAI compatible endpoints to agents, is in preview. SourceClawvisor, clawvisor.com/faq and the README at github.com/clawvisor/clawvisorread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AIModel Flexibility & Routing The agent's framework chooses its model, and OpenBox evaluates the operations that result. OpenBox offers no model choice of its own for the customer's agent. The OpenRouter SDK's routing policies are Rego rules that allow or deny model providers and record proof of where each call was routed. They govern the customer's model traffic and offer no choice inside OpenBox. The Alignment Score uses an LLM evaluation that OpenBox calls configurable, and it names no provider list or way to select one. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/developer-guide/openrouter/routing-policies and /core-concepts/trust-scoresread 2026-09-25 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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ClawvisorAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility The platform has its own HTTP API. Agents create tasks and send gateway requests with bearer tokens, and a management API takes scoped, revocable API tokens so Terraform and CI can drive it. A CLI manages the server, services and agents. Clawvisor also serves an MCP server at /mcp with OAuth 2.1, whose tools (fetch_catalog, create_task, get_task, complete_task, expand_task, gateway_request) create and change its core objects. There is no SDK. Agents connect through a skill or plain HTTP. SourceClawvisor, README at github.com/clawvisor/clawvisor (linked from clawvisor.com) and clawvisor.com/faqread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AIAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility SDKs for the platform include a Python Temporal plugin with a full API reference, Python SDKs for LangChain and LangGraph, CrewAI and Deep Agents, and TypeScript SDKs for Mastra and CopilotKit, plus an n8n community node and an OpenRouter SDK. Each comes with configuration options, error codes and an event model. They authenticate to the hosted endpoint core.openbox.ai with API keys for each agent (live and test) and send each agent operation for a governance verdict. OpenBox names no REST API reference and no MCP server of its own. The MCP mentions in its docs belong to the Temporal demo agent. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/developer-guide/temporal-python/sdk-reference, /developer-guide/langchain and /getting-started/copilotkit/add-openbox-to-copilotkitread 2026-09-25 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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ClawvisorTesting, Debugging & Optimization Evaluation suites test Clawvisor's own intent verification model, with 179 cases across benign tasks, scope creep and adversarial prompts and 249 across all three checks. The results sit in the public repo, and a customer can rerun them. Clawvisor names nothing that tests, scores or optimizes the customer's agent. SourceClawvisor, clawvisor.com/faqread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AITesting, Debugging & Optimization The Verify phase scores each session's actions against the agent's declared goal with an LLM evaluation that OpenBox calls configurable. Results show as an Alignment Score from 0 to 100 percent, with check counts, a trend line against a threshold (70 percent by default) and logged drift events. The score tracks the customer's agent's behavior over time, and it runs only on live sessions. OpenBox names no way to test an agent against fixtures, mocks or datasets before production, and no red teaming before deployment or CI/CD checks. The Adapt phase tunes governance rules, not the agent, and the Assess phase is a risk questionnaire. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/trust-lifecycle/verify, /core-concepts/trust-scores and /trust-lifecycle/assessread 2026-09-25 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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ClawvisorBrowser & Computer Use Clawvisor brokers API calls to services such as Gmail, GitHub and Slack and does not operate a browser or a computer. SourceClawvisor, clawvisor.com and /integrationsread 2026-09-25 |
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OpenBox AIBrowser & Computer Use Agent operations are governed, but OpenBox itself operates no browser or computer. Browsers appear only as steps in two demo walkthroughs. SourceOpenBox, docs.openbox.ai/overview and the docs index (llms.txt and llms-full.txt)read 2026-09-25 |
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Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Free 1,000 calls/mo · Pro $150/mo ($120/mo billed annually) · packs $0.025 a call · self-host free | Growth free to start · Enterprise custom quote |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, exact | Public, partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
protected calls (each agent request brokered through the gateway) | not published; Growth is free and Enterprise is quoted |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Low variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
Free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Mixed |
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Pricing verified When this pricing was last checked |
Product updates
Newest first, each linked to its source.
OpenBox AI
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· Deployment / data residency
OpenBox's runtime governance platform for AI agents can now be bought on AWS Marketplace and run entirely inside the customer's own AWS account and VPC.
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· Security / enterprise
Agents that use Okta for their identity can now start on OpenBox with just its API address, an API key and the agent's Okta private key, with the rest fetched automatically, as of version 1.4.0 of the Python SDK.
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· Security / enterprise
OpenBox expanded its runtime governance platform into a framework-agnostic control layer.
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