Salus

Salus provides runtime validation and governance for AI agents. It sits between an agent and its tools as a policy-aware proxy that intercepts each action before it executes, then clarifies, rewrites, escalates for human review, or blocks it against organizational policies — managing commit-time risk on financial transfers, appointment changes, and data modifications before they alter customer data, finances, or records. Integration requires only an endpoint URL change (no agent rewrite), and Salus works across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Retell, Vapi, and custom tools. Capabilities include evidence-based validation, PII detection, budget and loop protection, idempotency checks, human-in-the-loop escalation, self-repair of blocked actions, and integrated evals and observability. Salus is a Y Combinator (Winter 2026) company based in San Francisco.

Salus is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, AI Agents, Runtime Validation, Agent Governance, and AI Safety.

Salus’ developer surface includes pricing and 3 more developer resources.

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10.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyAI AgentsRuntime ValidationAgent GovernanceAI SafetyGuardrailsDeveloper ToolsInfrastructure

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 10.4/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 3.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Salus Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 TrustCenter
TrustCenter

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: salus
name: Salus
description: Salus provides runtime validation and governance for AI agents. It sits between an agent and its tools as a policy-aware
  proxy that intercepts each action before it executes, then clarifies, rewrites, escalates for human review, or blocks it
  against organizational policies — managing commit-time risk on financial transfers, appointment changes, and data modifications
  before they alter customer data, finances, or records. Integration requires only an endpoint URL change (no agent rewrite),
  and Salus works across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Retell, Vapi, and custom tools. Capabilities
  include evidence-based validation, PII detection, budget and loop protection, idempotency checks, human-in-the-loop escalation,
  self-repair of blocked actions, and integrated evals and observability. Salus is a Y Combinator (Winter 2026) company based
  in San Francisco.
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