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Waxell

Waxell is an AI agent governance and observability platform that provides runtime policy enforcement, auto-instrumented LLM telemetry, MCP governance, cost management, and durable workflow execution for agents built in any Python framework or third-party agentic tool (Claude Code, Cursor, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, and 200+ more).

Waxell publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Cost Management API, Governance API, Prompts API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include AI Agent Governance, Observability, Policy Enforcement, LLM Telemetry, and Cost Management.

The Waxell catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Waxell’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, developer console, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, and 23 more developer resources.

63.3/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessEnterpriseSelf serve
6 APIs 10 Features 6 Use Cases
AI Agent GovernanceObservabilityPolicy EnforcementLLM TelemetryCost ManagementMCPAgent Runtime

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 63.3/100 · strong
Contract Quality 19.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 11.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.5 / 13
Governance 8.3 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Waxell Developer MCP Server

Waxell Developer MCP is a hosted Model Context Protocol server that lets coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Claude Desktop) query a Waxell instance in real t...

Waxell Cost Management API

Model cost catalog and tenant-level overrides

Waxell Governance API

Pre-execution policy checks and audit events

Waxell Prompts API

Managed prompts retrievable by name and version

Waxell Runs API

Lifecycle endpoints for agent execution runs

Waxell Telemetry API

LLM calls, spans, steps, and quality scores recorded against a run

Postman Collections 5

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Waxell Observe API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Waxell Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Waxell Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 10

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Auto-Instrumentation

Two-line setup auto-instruments 200+ libraries (OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, LiteLLM, etc.) without code changes.

Runtime Policy Enforcement

26 policy categories (cost, kill switch, PII, compliance, scope, safety) returning seven decisions (allow, warn, redact, throttle, block, skip, retry).

MCP Governance

Auto-instrumentor, server middleware, and governance proxy for Model Context Protocol traffic with PII scanning and rug-pull detection.

Cost Management

Built-in model pricing for 20+ models, tenant overrides via REST, budget enforcement that warns/throttles/blocks at thresholds.

Prompt Management

Versioned managed prompts retrievable by name and label (e.g. production, staging) directly from the SDK.

Workflow Envelope

Durable execution boundary with checkpoint and resume; Redis-backed in production, in-memory for development.

Human-in-the-Loop Approvals

Custom handlers route policy blocks to Slack, webhooks, or terminal prompts for human review.

Audit Trail

Immutable, timestamped record of all agent actions, decisions, and governance events.

Developer MCP

Hosted SSE MCP server (dev-mcp.waxell.dev/sse) with 15 live tools and 8 docs resources for coding agents.

Field-Level Encryption

PII fields encrypted at the application layer with AES-256-GCM and AWS KMS (FIPS 140-2 Level 3) before database storage.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Waxell Context

26 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Waxell API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Waxell API Rules

14 rules · 5 errors 9 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Waxell LLM Call

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Waxell Policy Decision

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Waxell Run

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Waxell Span

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Waxell Policy Decision Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Waxell Run Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Waxell Get Prompt Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Waxell Start Run Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Waxell Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Waxell Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Waxell Agentic Access

12 operations · 10 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

12 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 6

What developers build with this provider.

Govern Third-Party Coding Agents

Enforce policies on Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and Claude Desktop without modifying their code.

Instrument Self-Built Agents

Add full observability to LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, or custom Python agents with the @waxell.observe decorator.

Cost-Capped Agent Deployment

Set budgets on token spend per agent, user, or tenant; block runs that exceed configured limits.

PII-Safe MCP Tool Use

Scan MCP tool inputs/outputs for PII, credentials, and secrets with warn/block/redact responses.

Durable Long-Running Workflows

Use the WorkflowEnvelope to checkpoint multi-step agent workflows so they can resume after interruption.

Compliance-Ready AI Operations

Maintain SOC 2 Ready posture with immutable audit trails, encrypted PII, and EU data residency.

Integrations 13

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

OpenAI

Auto-instrumented LLM provider; cost and token tracking out of the box.

Anthropic

Auto-instrumented LLM provider; supports Claude family models.

LangChain / LangGraph

First-class callback handler (WaxellLangChainHandler) for tracing chains and graphs.

CrewAI

Auto-instrumented multi-agent framework support.

LlamaIndex

Tracing for RAG pipelines built with LlamaIndex.

LiteLLM

Unified telemetry across LiteLLM-routed providers.

Claude Code

Governance overlay for Anthropic's Claude Code coding agent via the Developer MCP.

Cursor / Windsurf / VS Code

Coding-agent governance via the SSE MCP server at dev-mcp.waxell.dev.

OpenAI Agents SDK

Auto-instrumentation for OpenAI's Agents SDK runs.

AWS Bedrock / Azure OpenAI / Google Vertex AI

Cloud LLM providers covered by Waxell's auto-instrumentation.

Pinecone / Weaviate / Qdrant / Milvus / Chroma

Vector database call tracing with retrieval span recording.

Slack / Webhooks

Human-in-the-loop approval handlers for policy blocks.

Stripe

Listed subprocessor for billing.

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Solutions 3

Packaged solutions this provider offers.

Connect

Govern third-party agents (Claude Code, Cursor) without code changes via the MCP governance proxy.

Observe

Instrument self-built agents with auto-instrumentation, policy enforcement, and cost attribution.

Runtime

Governed execution environment for high-risk workflows with the durable WorkflowEnvelope.

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 7

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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description: Waxell is an AI agent governance and observability platform that provides runtime policy enforcement, auto-instrumented
  LLM telemetry, MCP governance, cost management, and durable workflow execution for agents built in any Python framework
  or third-party agentic tool (Claude Code, Cursor, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, and 200+ more).
created: '2026-05-06'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- AI Agent Governance
- Observability
- Policy Enforcement
- LLM Telemetry
- Cost Management
- MCP
- Agent Runtime
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  - name: Runtime Policy Enforcement
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  - name: Cost Management
    description: Built-in model pricing for 20+ models, tenant overrides via REST, budget enforcement that warns/throttles/blocks
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  - name: Prompt Management
    description: Versioned managed prompts retrievable by name and label (e.g. production, staging) directly from the SDK.
  - name: Workflow Envelope
    description: Durable execution boundary with checkpoint and resume; Redis-backed in production, in-memory for development.
  - name: Human-in-the-Loop Approvals
    description: Custom handlers route policy blocks to Slack, webhooks, or terminal prompts for human review.
  - name: Audit Trail
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  - name: Developer MCP
    description: Hosted SSE MCP server (dev-mcp.waxell.dev/sse) with 15 live tools and 8 docs resources for coding agents.
  - name: Field-Level Encryption
    description: PII fields encrypted at the application layer with AES-256-GCM and AWS KMS (FIPS 140-2 Level 3) before database
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  updated: '2026-05-06'
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    description: Enforce policies on Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and Claude Desktop without modifying their code.
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  - https://waxell.ai/docs
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  - name: Pinecone / Weaviate / Qdrant / Milvus / Chroma
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  - name: Slack / Webhooks
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  - name: Stripe
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  sources:
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  updated: '2026-05-06'
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    description: Govern third-party agents (Claude Code, Cursor) without code changes via the MCP governance proxy.
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  - name: Runtime
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  sources:
  - https://waxell.ai/
  updated: '2026-05-06'
- type: LlmsText
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com
  url: https://apievangelist.com