# Govern all detected tools

The fastest way to put a machine under governance: one button, every tool it can find.

## Doing it

Open the **Tools** tab. The card at the top says how many AI tools were detected and how
many are not yet routed through Sentilai. Press **Govern all detected tools**.

The app then reports, per tool, whether it was connected, was already governed, or failed
— with the reason.

## Then restart the tools

**This is the step people miss.** Every one of these tools reads its configuration once,
at startup. Until you fully quit and reopen it — not just close the window — it keeps
talking directly to the AI provider and nothing appears in Activity.

On macOS that means quitting the application properly (⌘Q), not closing its window. For
command-line tools, close and reopen the terminal.

## What it does not cover

- **GitHub Copilot inside VS Code** needs a separate manual setup, because VS Code's
  custom-endpoint feature cannot be configured from outside. See [GitHub Copilot](/books/connect-your-tools/page/github-copilot).
- Tools that are not installed are listed as **not detected** and skipped.

## Automatic governing

The **Account** tab has an **Automatic governing** toggle, on by default. With it on, any
AI tool or local MCP server that appears later is governed in the background without
anyone pressing anything — and any tool whose configuration drifts back to the direct
provider gets re-governed.

If your organization deploys a managed configuration, this toggle may be pinned on and
shown as "managed by your organization".