We often talk about the importance of AI governance, but the real question is: how do you actually implement it without slowing down your development velocity?

At MITRITY, we believe governance should be as easy to integrate as it is to talk about. To prove it, we've put together a Quickstart guide and two open-source demonstration agents that let you see our Intent-Aware Governance platform in action in just a few minutes.

The Setup: Why Two Agents?

To demonstrate how the platform manages different communication patterns, we created two distinct agentic setups using Anthropic's LLM:

The MCP Gateway: This demo shows how MITRITY handles centralized governance for services connecting via an MCP (Model Context Protocol) gateway. It's the perfect way to see how we intercept and validate intent at the service perimeter.
The Sidecar: If you prefer a decentralized approach, the sidecar demo demonstrates how to embed governance directly alongside your agent, providing real-time, inline policy enforcement without introducing a central bottleneck.

Testing the Governance Model

Getting these running is straightforward. Whether you're testing the Gateway or the Sidecar approach, our Quickstart guide walks you through the environment setup.

Once the agents are live, you can start testing our Intent-Aware Governance engine. You'll be able to:

Define Missions — set what the agent should be doing.
Observe Drift — intentionally feed the agent prompts that deviate from its mission to see how MITRITY identifies "behavioral drift" in real-time.
Review Decisions — watch as the platform automatically flags, escalates, or blocks actions based on the defined policy, all with sub-millisecond latency.

See It for Yourself

Governance shouldn't be a black box or a hurdle. It's a tool for building better, safer agentic systems. If you're curious about how your own agent stacks up, clone the demos and run the Quickstart.

We'd love to hear how your testing goes — drop us a line if you run into questions. Happy coding.

Ready to govern your own agents? Start a free trial or read the documentation to deploy your first governed agent in minutes.