> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.xpander.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# xpander docs

> xpander is the governed runtime for enterprise AI agents. Run the agents your teams already use. Govern every action they take.

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            The governed runtime for<br />
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            Run the agents your teams already use. Govern every action they take.
            Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode. Any model, frontier or open-weight.
            In your VPC, in xpander's cloud, or fully air-gapped.
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            <a href="/use" className="xp-btn-primary">Start with the agent you have</a>
            <a href="/run" className="xp-btn-secondary">Govern and run xpander</a>
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        Every call an agent makes, to a model or to a company system, goes through xpander: validated,
        credentialed at the moment of use, budgeted, and tied to the person who asked for it. Risky actions
        wait for a named person's sign-off. Pick the door that matches what you do.
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          <h3 className="xp-path-title">You use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenCode</h3>
          <p className="xp-path-desc">Connect your client to xpander once. A job you send to the background runs on xpander in an isolated session with your organization's approved skills, and shows up as a task in Xpander Chat, where your team can follow it, approve held actions and continue the conversation.</p>

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            <a href="/use/app" className="xp-path-link">The app <span className="xp-path-link-arrow">↗</span></a>
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          <h3 className="xp-path-title">You set the policy, or you operate it</h3>
          <p className="xp-path-desc">Approved skills and models, budgets, approvals, credentials in the Vault, sign-in with your identity provider and the audit log live under Settings in Xpander Chat. Hybrid and air-gapped deployments install from a Helm chart into your own cluster.</p>

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            <a href="/run/govern" className="xp-path-link">Govern every agent <span className="xp-path-link-arrow">↗</span></a>
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          <h3 className="xp-path-title">You integrate xpander</h3>
          <p className="xp-path-desc">One call starts a run on any agent and returns its result; tasks, threads and model usage are readable afterwards; skills, knowledge and workflows are managed over the same REST API. Python SDK, CLI, webhooks and MCP sit on top of it.</p>

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          Runs in your VPC, in xpander's cloud, or fully air-gapped
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          <a href="/connectors" className="xp-footer-link">Skills catalog ↗</a>
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