Zero standing access,
by design.
Every product you ship now runs on agents — and every agent is a new set of keys waiting to leak. Warden fixes that at the root: agents hold identity, never standing credentials. Each action they take is brokered against policy, scoped to the moment, and written to an audit trail that can't be edited. One gate the whole estate passes through.
Agents are multiplying. Their access shouldn't.
The moment an agent holds a long-lived token, an SSH key, or a database password, that credential is a standing liability — copyable, loggable, and impossible to fully revoke. The fix isn't a better secret. It's no standing secret at all.
Identity in. Brokered access out.
Four moves turn "here are your keys" into "ask, and I'll open exactly this, for exactly this long."
Agents hold identity only
An agent proves who it is with a narrow, Warden-only token. It carries no database password, no SSH key, no product credential.
Every action is requested
To do anything real, the agent asks Warden. Warden checks policy — role, scope, blast radius — and decides, or routes it for approval.
Access is minted just in time
On approval Warden vends a credential scoped to that one action and expiring in minutes — the agent never sees a standing key.
Nothing goes unrecorded
Every request, decision and action lands in an append-only audit trail — who, what, when, and why it was allowed.
Three ways Warden brokers access.
Different resources need different handling — so Warden brokers each in the safest shape for it, and never puts itself on the hot path where it doesn't need to be.
Token-vending
For APIs: Warden mints a short-lived, tightly-scoped token on request. The agent calls the service directly — Warden stays off the hot path.
Live for the estate todaySession-proxying
For databases and shells: sessions run through a broker that can record every statement and cut a connection the instant policy says stop.
On the roadmapJIT secret leasing
For keys that must be handed over: Warden leases them from a vault just in time, with a short lease and automatic revocation — never resident on the agent.
On the roadmapA governance plane you can actually see.
Warden isn't a config file. It's an instrument — it answers questions about your estate, not just stores settings.
Agents & roles
Register every agent as a first-class identity, with a roles-and-scopes matrix showing exactly what each one can reach.
Policies & blast radius
Write estate-wide policies and see, before you enforce, exactly which agents a change would touch.
Request simulator
Ask "would this call be allowed, and why?" and get the full decision trace — before anything runs in production.
Unified audit
One append-only trail across every product — with drift detection that flags an allow nobody can explain.
Live estate map
The whole topology — agents, product APIs, systems and infrastructure — with Warden drawn as the chokepoint every access edge crosses.
Approvals inbox
Sensitive grants pause for a human. Approve or deny with full context, and the agent moves the moment you decide.
Give your agents identity, not keys.
Warden is in early access for teams running fleets of agents. Tell us about yours.