What Runlayer does
Runlayer provides a control plane for approved AI usage, an MCP gateway for agent-to-tool communications, and the Runlayer Agents runtime for agents created on Runlayer infrastructure.
Why teams reach for it: Provides MCP governance, observability, and protections so regulated teams can adopt AI without exposing sensitive data.
Worth knowing
Its primary function is access governance, scanning MCP server config, tool descriptions, agent skills. It supports shadow MCP discovery, prompt-injection detection, tool-poisoning detection.
How Runlayer compares
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- Primary Function
- Access governance
- Secondary Functions
- Runtime guardrails, Posture management, Threat detection
- Deployment Point
- In request path
- Scan Target
- MCP server config, tool descriptions, agent skills
- Shadow Mcp Discovery
- Yes
- Prompt Injection Detection
- Yes
- Tool Poisoning Detection
- Yes
- Clients Covered
- Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf
- Policy Enforcement
- Blocking
- Siem Integration
- Yes
How will you enforce policy and reduce risk?
Security & governance tools help teams enforce policy, monitor risk, and keep MCP usage compliant with internal rules.