Exemplar is the policy layer that governs what agents can do — token budgets, approval gates, and a full audit trail across every model, tool, and framework.
token_spend.week
$0
calls.blocked.today
0
model_routing.savings
0%
audit_trail.completeness
100%
How it works
The same visuals that power Exemplar Console — Relay's decision wire, the living MCP gateway, and guardrails — live here so you can see the control plane before you sign in.
Marshal
Marshal serves your connectors, memory, prompts, and skills over MCP — any agent or IDE can use all of them the moment it connects.
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Exemplar is a suite — not a single tool. Govern agents in the IDE, in production workflows, and across your Dev connectors from one policy surface.
Marshal
Agent harness with the primitive tools to run agents in production
Tools, prompts, skills, gateway, evals, guardrails, and HITL — the primitives production agents need.
Relay
Hooks that govern Cursor and Claude Code
Control plane for Cursor and Claude Code hooks — allow, ask, or deny before risky actions land.
DevX Assist
Governed MCP for Dev connectors & integrations
Connect Dev integrations and expose them as governed MCP — same policy and audit as the console.
The problem
No budget limits. No access controls. No audit trail. Most teams discover the problem after it becomes an incident.
3.2×
average token overspend when agents run without model routing or budget enforcement
74%
of agent failures traced to unrestricted tool access — agents calling APIs they should never reach
0
audit records kept by most teams — no log of what ran, what it touched, or who approved it
Before vs. after
One runs ungoverned — expensive, unrestricted, unaccountable. The other runs through Exemplar.
Without Exemplar
With Exemplar
The numbers
Data from engineering teams running AI agents through Exemplar — before and after governance was enabled.
Weekly token spend
before vs. after Exemplar
Model routing distribution
tasks auto-matched to right model
Blocked calls by category
last 30 days across all agents
Agent run outcomes — daily
passed / approved / blocked
Guardrails
Set access policies once. Every agent — on every framework — operates within them.
Tool access control
agent-code-review · last run 4m ago
Cost governance
budget tracking · all agents · this week
Marshal for production agents. Relay for Cursor and Claude Code. Studio and DevX Assist for the rest of the stack — one policy surface.
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