Multi-model. Governed by TrustModel AGP. Observable through Galileo. One dev surface that respects the policy enforcement Cisco already sells into the enterprise.
Cisco's AI-Defense bet is about giving enterprises a way to deploy agents without losing control of them. AgentFoundry is the developer surface that bet is missing.
Cisco's Galileo acquisition standardizes AI-Defense customers on the same trace format, span model, and judge-based eval discipline that TrustModel was built around. The connector is already in production — galileo_connector Django app in aurora-gateway.
Today, the developer's IDE is the weakest link in the AI-Defense story: agents are built in tools that have zero awareness of the policies enforced at the network edge. AgentFoundry makes governance a first-class IDE primitive — the agent is born with policy attached.
Every agent built or run in AgentFoundry flows through a TrustModel AGP edge sidecar. Score, governance attestations, and telemetry are emitted in the same OTLP shape Galileo and Cisco AI-Defense already speak — no new integration tax for the customer.
This mirrors the 3-layer model from the TrustModel + Cisco AI-Defense integration architecture we delivered earlier this quarter. AgentFoundry plugs into each layer as the developer-facing surface.
GalileoTransformer → TelemetryEvalInput, scored across 10 dimensions, signed as an attestation, surfaced as an audit-ready record.
None of this is "if we did a partnership." These pieces exist today and are live with customers.
galileo_connector Django app — REST pull from Galileo project trace DB, GalileoTransformer normalization, MCP forwarding, OTLP push. Live in PR #192.
Multi-project, multi-model IDE where every agent runs behind a local AGP sidecar. Policy, trace, and TrustScore are emitted on every run with no app-side instrumentation.
SKU 3 Agent Governance is the platform layer the sidecar reports into. TRUS-1000 (Helm chart) closes the in-VPC deploy gap Fortune 500 enterprises need on day one.
TelemetryEvalInput normalizes Galileo, W&B Weave, Arize, LangSmith, and OTel traces into one shape. Cisco AI-Defense events plug in via the same path.
Three products, one story. Each owns its layer. Each amplifies the others.
Network & policy enforcement at the edge. The customer's existing Cisco footprint becomes the runtime perimeter for every agent built in AgentFoundry.
Agent-governance backplane. TrustScore, attestations, compliance mapping (NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO 42001). Galileo telemetry feeds it directly.
The developer IDE that bakes both in. The agent is born governed, born observable, born inside the Cisco perimeter — no retrofit at deploy time.
Co-sell motion: Cisco AI-Defense lands the enterprise, TrustModel AGP secures the agent layer, AgentFoundry becomes the standard IDE the customer's developers build on. One contract, three vendors, zero integration work for the buyer.
AgentFoundry is the IDE for the agent era. 30-second setup, multi-project tabs, multi-model AI (Claude, Codex, Gemini, Aider, Copilot) side-by-side, first-class scaffolds for Claude Agent SDK, Cursor SDK, Microsoft Agent Framework (Azure), and Google ADK (Vertex). Agent-fleet management is built in — every agent the developer ships runs behind a local TrustModel AGP edge sidecar that handles policy, trace, and TrustScore on every invocation.
Token-economics-aware multi-model routing means the right task goes to the right model at the right cost. The IDE replays any production agent run, forks it back to current code, and re-runs it under governance. AgentFoundry is built by Predixtions Inc., the team that built TrustModel — so the IDE and the governance backplane share a roadmap, not just an API.
If Cisco AI-Defense is the perimeter, TrustModel AGP is the agent backplane, and AgentFoundry is the IDE — there's a real co-sell motion here. Happy to walk through architecture, customer overlap, or a joint pilot.
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