Software Observability for the AI era
The data plane for software in the AI era. Crash Override runs inside the build, inspecting and tagging every artifact — and reaches all the way to the developer's machine, where the code is now written. Your entire software path, from the prompt to production, becomes visible.
Five lines of YAML for CI · zero-touch coverage on developer machines via Crash Override Endpoint · no platform migration.
Understand what gets written.
Crash Override Endpoint runs in the developer's native environment, capturing what humans and AI agents write before code reaches the build. Every prompt, every tool call, every edit, every commit — observed and understood at the source. You don't see surveillance; you see provenance start where the code starts.
- Captures human + AI agent activity in real time
- Understands every prompt, edit, and commit at the source
- Works alongside Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex — no IDE plugin required
Inspect what gets built.
Once code reaches the build, Chalk runs inside the build system itself. Every dependency resolution, every layer mutation, every file that lands in the final artifact — observed as it happens, not inferred afterward from a scan. Deterministic. No false positives. Build systems don't hallucinate.
- Inspects builds from inside, not outside
- Captures dependencies, layers, and build environment
- Deterministic — no inference, no probabilistic guesses
Tag what ships.
Every artifact carries its own provenance. A cryptographic chalk-mark embedded in the artifact records exactly what went into it: source commit, contributors (human and AI), dependency list, build environment. Sign once at the build, verify anywhere downstream. SBOMs that are actually true.
- Cryptographic signature embedded in the artifact itself
- SLSA Level 3 attestation, built in
- SBOMs derived from observed build, not self-declared
Track what runs.
Tagged artifacts beacon back from every environment they run in — dev, staging, prod, edge, anywhere. Query a container in production and you get the full chain back to the prompt that started it. Drift surfaces the moment it happens. Incident response becomes seconds, not days.
- Live beacons from every environment
- Full chain back to the originating prompt or commit
- Drift detection across the fleet
Everything developers ask before they install.
Crash Override works with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, Buildkite, and ArgoCD. Each integration is a single YAML step. We run inside the build rather than scanning it from outside, so what you get is what actually happened, not what was declared.
Endpoint ships zero-touch through your existing MDM. There is no developer opt-in, no IDE plugin, no Dockerfile change and no CI configuration — coverage is a property of the machine, not the project. It is generally available on macOS and Windows today, with Linux coming soon.
No. Endpoint observes; it does not gate. It runs today in observation mode, with policy enforcement arriving as an opt-in in Q3 2026. Our position is that you have to see before you can govern, and that control-first tooling is the thing engineers route around.
No, and scanners stay useful alongside us. A scanner tells you a finding exists. We tell you which artifact it is in, which build produced it, who or what wrote the code, and where it is running right now. Scanners find it. We trace it.
Chalk and Ocular are open source and GPL licensed — free to use, fork and contribute to. The enterprise platform adds deep build inspection, the provenance graph across your whole estate, Crash Override Endpoint on developer machines, SSO/SAML and RBAC, audit logging, and dedicated support.
See it in your codebase.
Book 30 minutes with an engineer. We'll run Crash Override against your repository live and show you what we find.