HLD Cordon · MCP Security Gateway

Every agent tool call, intercepted and inspected.

Cordon is a managed MCP security gateway that intercepts, inspects, and enforces policy on every AI agent tool call — giving your enterprise the visibility and control over agentic AI it doesn't currently have.

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Tool calls routed through policy

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Managed gateway. HLD operates it.

// the problem

Agentic AI is everywhere. Oversight is nowhere.

Teams are shipping AI agents across the business with no shared visibility and no shared controls — yet the organisation remains accountable for everything they do.

No visibility

Nobody can say who built each agent, what data it touched, what it produced, or what it cost. Agents multiply faster than anyone can inventory them.

Unsupervised & non-deterministic

Agents act on their own, and the same prompt can take a different path every run. Traditional change control was never designed for software that improvises.

No audit trail

When something goes wrong, there is no record of the tool calls that led there — yet the business is still accountable for the outcome.

The walled-garden trap

The incumbent answer is “build one sanctioned platform and force every team onto it.” That slows deployment, kills flexibility, and teams route around it anyway.

// the cordon answer

Let agents be built anywhere, on any stack — but route every tool call through Cordon's security layer. No rip-and-replace. No forcing teams onto a single platform. Visibility and policy enforcement without slowing deployment.

// how cordon works

Seven layers between your agents and the outside world.

Every MCP tool call passes through the full stack — from cryptographic identity at the edge to a complete audit record at the core.

L1

Attestation

Cryptographic identity verification for every MCP server. Unregistered or tampered servers never reach your agents.

L2

Semantic Analysis

Inspects the intent and content of every tool call — not just the endpoint it hits.

L3

Permission Sandbox

Enforces exactly what each agent is allowed to touch. Everything outside the sandbox is denied by default.

L4

Context Isolation

Prevents cross-contamination between agent sessions and data domains. One agent’s context never bleeds into another’s.

L5

Response Validation

Checks outputs before they are trusted — malformed, poisoned, or out-of-policy responses are stopped at the gate.

L6

Behavioural Monitoring

Baselines each agent over time and flags anomalous behaviour before it becomes an incident.

L7

Audit Trail

Full logging of who, what, when, and cost — an evidentiary record for security, finance, and compliance.

// trust registry

App Store review — for MCP servers.

The HLD Trust Registry gives MCP server developers a path to being trusted inside the enterprise: submit for review, receive a cryptographic attestation key, and Cordon verifies it on every single connection.

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Register

MCP server developers submit their server to HLD for review — capabilities, data access, and provenance.

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Review & attest

HLD reviews the server and issues a cryptographic attestation key. Think App Store review — but for MCP servers.

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Verify at runtime

Cordon verifies the attestation on every connection. Unattested servers are blocked or flagged, per your policy.

// category of one

The first managed MCP security gateway.

Others sell software and hand you the keys — you configure it, you run it, you carry the operational burden. Cordon is a managed service: HLD deploys, monitors, and operates the security layer for you.

And it stays what it is — an MCP security gateway, defensible and specific, not another generic “AI oversight platform.”

self-managed gateways

You install it. You configure the policies. You watch the dashboards. You respond at 3am. Your team becomes the security operations team for your agents.

hld cordon — managed

HLD deploys the gateway, tunes the policies with you, monitors it continuously, and operates it end to end. You get the control plane; we carry the pager.

// roadmap

Gateway first. Accountability next. Enforcement everywhere.

PHASE 1LIVE

MCP Gateway

Interception, inspection, and policy enforcement on every MCP tool call — deployed, monitored, and operated by HLD.

  • Tool-call interception & inspection
  • Policy enforcement at the gateway
  • Attestation-backed server identity
PHASE 2NEXT

Agent Registry

Every agent gets a named owner, a cost line, and a place in the org chart. Accountability, not just observability.

  • Named agent owners
  • Per-agent cost tracking
  • Org-chart accountability
PHASE 3PLANNED

Full Enforcement

Organisation-wide policy enforcement, anomaly detection, and compliance reporting across your entire agent fleet.

  • Full policy enforcement
  • Anomaly detection
  • Compliance reporting

// phase 1 is live

Put a cordon around your agents.

Join the waitlist for early access, or talk to HLD about routing your first agent workloads through the gateway.