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Protection for your AI-agent endpoints

Agentic workflows turn your APIs into machine-to-machine traffic at scale. The Agent Gateway enforces OWASP CRS protection, abuse controls, and identity-aware policy on agent-to-app and tool traffic, with machine identities handled by ArxLayer Identity & NHI.

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The shift

AI agents are a new kind of client

An agent is not a browser and not a hand-written integration. It calls APIs and tools autonomously, as a machine identity, at volumes no human produces, and that changes the attack surface.

Agent-to-app traffic

Agents call your APIs at machine speed; that traffic needs inspection before your origin.

Tool & function abuse

Agents invoke tools in unexpected sequences. Abuse and rate controls keep that within policy.

Machine identities (NHI)

Each agent acts as a non-human identity; policy should tie to who is calling, not just the request shape.

What you get

Enforcement for agent traffic, stated plainly

The Agent Gateway protects the endpoints your agents call. It is request-level enforcement and identity context, not a model-safety layer.

OWASP CRS inspection

Agent requests run on Coraza with the OWASP Core Rule Set, the same baseline as human traffic.

Abuse & rate controls

Bound how aggressively any single identity can call your tools and APIs.

Identity-aware policy

Scope enforcement per machine identity so decisions carry context.

Token-bound access

Tie an agent's access to a scoped, validated token, not a fragile IP allowlist.

Evidence for every decision

See which identity drove a block, and why, in the event stream.

Honest scope

No claim to detect prompt injection or reason about model intent, request-level enforcement only.

How it works

The same edge, applied to agents

Agent traffic flows through ArxLayer Edge and is inspected before it reaches your origin, with identity in the loop.

Route agent endpoints

Send agent-facing APIs and tool endpoints through ArxLayer Edge.

Bind machine identity

Each agent authenticates as a machine identity via ArxLayer Identity & NHI.

Enforce with evidence

Inspect, rate-limit, and enforce per identity, with full event evidence.

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FAQ

Questions, answered

Does the Agent Gateway detect prompt injection?: No. It is request-level enforcement for the endpoints agents call: OWASP CRS inspection, abuse controls, and identity-aware policy. It does not reason about model intent or detect prompt injection.
How do agents authenticate?: As machine identities (non-human identities, NHI) via ArxLayer Identity & NHI, so policy can be scoped to the specific identity behind each call.
Can I rate-limit a single misbehaving agent?: Yes. Abuse and rate controls are scoped per identity and route, so one agent or workflow can't degrade the rest of the system.

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Protect the endpoints your agents call

See how ArxLayer enforces protection, abuse controls, and identity-aware policy on agent-to-app traffic.