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.
• 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".