How Tether compares.

Tether adds the lane
your stack can't see.

Tether isn't a replacement for the tools you run — it covers the AI-egress lane they weren't built to watch. Each of them keeps doing its job; here's the different job Tether does at the developer machine. The full category-by-category map, including where Tether is only partial, is on How it works.

Endpoint threats vs the prompt itself.

EDR does endpoint malware and behavioral threat detection — it sees the process, the connection, and the binary. The gap: it doesn't read the JSON body inside the TLS tunnel a coding agent opens to its model vendor. Tether reads that prompt on the tools that route through it, and attributes it to a person and an agent.

Approved apps vs what's inside the request.

CASB does SaaS shadow-IT discovery and posture. The gap: a Claude Code call to the model API is just another approved SaaS host. Tether classifies what's in the request at the source, before it leaves the machine.

File patterns vs generated content.

DLP does org-wide, file-level content classification. The gap: a customer record paraphrased into a prompt never fires those patterns. Tether applies a deterministic floor at the moment of egress and routes the ambiguous cases to a judge or an operator.