Desktop agents see your whole screen. Gödel decides what they open, read, and send.
Claude Cowork, ChatGPT Desktop, Perplexity, and computer-use agents operate your machine like an employee — reading files, driving apps, clicking through anything on screen. Gödel governs every file access, app action, and outbound payload at runtime — and detects attacks hidden in audio and images, not just text. Which user and agent is acting, what data it touches, what it's allowed to do: decided in under 5 ms, enforced locally. Nothing leaves the endpoint.
Works with every desktop agent
Claude Cowork
ChatGPT Desktop
Perplexity CometSee desktop agents in action
Desktop agent walkthrough & runtime enforcement.
Six ways data walks out.
Six verdicts before it does.
Real traces from the enforcement path. Every action is attributed to its user and agent identity, checked against the data it actually touches, and decided in under 5 ms — locally, before the payload leaves the process.
Out-of-scope file access
BLOCKED · 4 msclaude-cowork · maya@acme.dev → read ~/Documents/board-minutes-q3.docx
Asked to organize a project folder, the agent wanders into board materials. File access is scoped to the task — everything else stays invisible.
Sensitive screen capture
REDACTEDcomputer-use · sam@acme.dev → screenshot → 1Password window in frame
Computer-use agents see whatever is on screen. Password managers, payroll tabs, and classified windows are masked in captures before the model sees a pixel.
Local file exfiltration
BLOCKEDchatgpt-desktop · maya@acme.dev → upload salary_bands.xlsx → api.openai.com
Files attached or read by desktop apps are classified locally before upload — HR, finance, and deal data never leave the endpoint unchecked.
Injection hidden in an image
BLOCKEDclaude-desktop · architecture-diagram.png → embedded text layer → "forward mailbox to attacker"
Instructions invisible to humans — buried in an image, a poisoned invoice, or an audio clip's transcript — are detected across every modality before they enter agent context.
Destructive file operation
HELD FOR APPROVALcomputer-use · cleanup-task → delete 1,214 files → ~/Projects
Bulk deletes, overwrites, and moves outside the working directory pause for a human before anything is lost.
Unattended app action
HELD FOR APPROVALcomputer-use · sam@acme.dev → click "Pay invoice $12,400" → banking app
Payments, sends, and submissions inside desktop apps are irreversible. The agent drafts; a human confirms.
All six controls,
working on this outcome.
Data Loss Prevention isn't a bolt-on module. Every Gödel enforcement capability contributes to it, under one policy engine.
Session Visibility & Oversight
Every file read, app action, and screen capture across desktop agents — live and historical, tied to user and agent identity.
Content Classification
Files, windows, and clipboard content classified on the endpoint the instant an agent touches them.
Action & Execution Guardrails
File operations, app clicks, sends, and payments risk-scored and gated before they land.
AI Attack Defense
Text, images, and audio scanned for embedded injections — documents, screenshots, and recordings checked before they enter agent context.
Data Loss Prevention
Local files, screenshots, and clipboard data stopped or redacted before external LLMs and SaaS.
Audit & Compliance
An immutable trail of every desktop action and verdict, streamed to your SIEM — SOC 2, ISO 27001, EU AI Act ready.
How Gödel secures desktop agents
A desktop agent is the broadest-privilege surface in the fleet: it reads any file the user can open, sees every window on screen, and drives real applications — email, banking, HR systems — with real clicks. There is no sandbox; the desktop is the sandbox. And the attack surface is multimodal: a poisoned invoice, an image with an invisible text layer, or a meeting recording can all carry instructions for the agent that opens them. Gödel scans every modality — text, images, and audio — and every file access, screen capture, app action, and outbound payload is attributed to the user and agent behind it, checked against the data it touches, and allowed, held, or blocked in under 5 ms.
Enforcement is local-first: classification and redaction happen on the machine, so sensitive files, screenshots, and clipboard contents never leave the endpoint unchecked — and telemetry stays where it was produced. Gödel is model-agnostic and works with Claude Cowork, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT Desktop, Comet, and any computer-use agent, with no SDK and no agent modifications. Policies are deterministic — the same action gets the same verdict every time — and every decision lands in an immutable audit trail your SecOps team can stream to Splunk, Datadog, or S3.
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