Permission envelope before writing. Live alerts while coding. Policy gate at PR. Production audit after deploy. Four tracks. Five editors.
Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf — each operates in isolation. They don't know your IAM policy, your off-limits services, or your runbook. Worse: when they generate 80 files for a 5-file ticket, or create the seventh version of the same utility function, there's nothing stopping them.
Agents request IAM roles, write secrets, and modify infrastructure with no pre-flight check against your policy.
When an incident hits, you can't trace which agent wrote the code, under what context, or with what declared intent — it's a black box.
Unconstrained agents create N+1 utility functions, touch dozens of files, and generate duplicates. Without session budgets and abstraction scoring, sprawl compounds daily.
VertaAI intercepts the AI coding workflow at every stage — from the first keystroke to production. Tracks 0 and 1 live inside the editor. Tracks A and B enforce at PR time and runtime.