Question 1

Does Tracehold sit in the data path between my agent and the cloud?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Tracehold acts as a single enforcement gateway that intercepts every tool call before it reaches your cloud provider. Every action is classified by risk level, evaluated against your policies, and either allowed, blocked, or held for human approval. You can also run in observe-only mode to start without blocking anything.

Question 2

Which cloud providers and agent frameworks does Tracehold support?

Accepted Answer

AWS, GCP, and Azure have first-class support with native credential federation. We also support DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Cloudflare, and any provider with a REST API through custom classifier rules. On the agent side, we ship SDK wrappers for LangChain, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, and CrewAI, plus a generic Python client for custom frameworks and internal tools.

Question 3

What happens if the Tracehold gateway goes down?

Accepted Answer

Tracehold supports configurable fail modes per organization. You can choose fail-open (agents continue with logging only) or fail-closed (agents are paused until the gateway recovers). Most production deployments use fail-closed for critical workloads and fail-open for non-critical ones.

Question 4

Is Tracehold self-hosted or managed?

Accepted Answer

Both. You can self-host Tracehold in your own VPC so your audit trail and credentials never leave your infrastructure, or use our managed deployment. The entire stack runs on Docker Compose with PostgreSQL, Redis, and an OpenTelemetry collector.

Question 5

How is Tracehold different from a WAF or prompt injection filter?

Accepted Answer

WAFs and prompt filters protect the input side. Tracehold protects the output side: the actual cloud actions your agent takes. We classify every tool call by risk and blast radius, issue short-lived credentials scoped to each task, and maintain a tamper-evident audit trail. Think of it as IAM and audit for AI agents, not another input filter.

Question 6

Does Tracehold align with OWASP and NIST standards?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Tracehold is built around the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026 (ASI01 through ASI10) and maps every gateway decision to NIST SP 800-53 controls (AC-6, AU-2, AU-12, CM-5, IA-9, SC-28, SI-7). The immutable audit trail exports as compliance evidence for SOC 2 and NIST AI RMF assessments.

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