FAQ

Answers to the five questions we get on every first call. If something else is on your mind, book a working session.

• How is Shakti different from GitHub Copilot or Cursor?

  Copilot and Cursor are code-completion tools. Shakti is a governed software evolution system. Different stage of the product lifecycle, different audit boundary.

• Can I run Shakti fully air-gapped?

  Yes. Single Rust binary, no external service dependencies at runtime, and a self-hosted Ollama / vLLM adapter closes the LLM loop.

• What happens if an agent makes a bad change?

  Every phase has a typed boundary + an approval checkpoint. Rollback is a Merkle-chain walk, not a git revert.

• How do I get a Shakti audit trail into my SIEM?

  The evidence export endpoint is SIEM-ready JSON. Custom schema mappers for Splunk, Datadog, Chronicle land in v2.1.

• What's the real cost of ownership compared to building in-house?

  Most in-house platforms cost $500K-$5M annually in reconciliation + six FTE to maintain. Shakti collapses that to a seat licence + a small platform team.