Running in the background
The app is designed to be invisible once set up.
The system tray
Closing the window hides the app to the tray rather than quitting it. The tray menu has Show Sentilai Endpoint and Quit; left-clicking the icon reopens the window.
The connectivity badge
If a host the app needs is unreachable, the tray icon gains an amber badge and the window shows a banner naming the host. It keeps retrying — this is usually a VPN that has just come up, or a firewall rule that has not been widened yet.
Your network team may need the hostnames; see Hostnames and firewall rules.
Automatic updates
The app checks for updates, verifies the download's signature before installing it, and replaces itself. Verified on macOS; on Windows the updater ships but has not yet been proven end to end, so treat Windows updates as manual for now.
What it does periodically
- Adapter drift check — is each governed tool still pointing at the Gateway? A tool that has drifted is re-governed if automatic governing is on, and either way the console shows the device as Non-compliant.
- Log request poll — roughly every two minutes, so that an admin's request for logs is fulfilled promptly.
- Posture scan — read-only inspection of your AI tools' own autonomy settings, sent to the console as posture findings. It reads configuration, never prompts or code.