Optics · Observe · Free, forever
See supported AI-agent activity before you enforce.
Optics is Vantio’s free observability product. It shows where supported agents connect and provides process and trace context without storing prompts or completions.
Optics helps teams understand activity before they are ready to deploy enforcement. It is intentionally observational and can be bypassed. When visibility is no longer enough, Phantom Engine adds policy enforcement and host-level authority.
How it works
Wrap the agent process, watch outbound connections, and inspect the run locally. vantio run wraps the process. vantio prove and vantio discover --local inspect wrap logs on this machine. Stop wrapping by running the agent without vantio run, then uninstall the CLI. Metadata can be exported from the machine you control. A read-only Optics MCP is available. Full steps live in Docs.
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Install the CLI
npm i -g @vantio/cli02
Wrap a Node agent
vantio run --summary node agent.js03
Inspect the run
vantio prove --list vantio prove
Python support requires vantio-agent-sdk. Follow the current Python SDK example and verify that a supported outbound event appears before relying on the coverage state.
pip install vantio-agent-sdk
vantio run python agent.pyData and privacy
Optics records the fields below. Prompts and completions are not retained.
Recorded
- Destination
- Provider
- Process and runtime
- Timing
- Request and response size
- Trace identifier
- Decision metadata when used with Phantom Engine
Not recorded
- Prompts
- Completions
- Request or response bodies
- Authorization headers
- Query strings
Questions that add detail
- Where does Optics run?
- Inside the agent process you wrap, on macOS, Linux, or Windows with WSL. Telemetry stays on that machine.