Use cases
What you can build with Vanta — grounded in its actual capabilities, each linking to the feature that powers it. These are illustrative use cases, not community testimonials; every one maps to shipped functionality.
:::info Executed community-story proof Vanta indexes all 262 Hermes story records without copying quote bodies and has 30 executable scenarios — two in each of the 15 categories. Five executed scenarios pass reviewed and deterministic outcome checks: General / capability start, Meta & ecosystem / cross-platform install, Dev workflow / converse before act, Cost optimization / context reduction, and Enterprise / Kubernetes briefing. These runs exposed and fixed a choice-wall side effect, relative glob-root resolution, missing live context-cost measurement, criterion-free workflow validation, and false repair-loop detection. The remaining 25 scenarios and ten categories stay unproved. The redacted proof summary is generated from local receipts and contains counts and gaps only, never transcript output. :::
Scoped code edits with a safety net
Read, grep, and edit across a repo while the kernel gates every write and out-of-scope path. See Tools and the safety model.
Lock a bug so it never regresses
Turn a fixed bug into a re-runnable proof with regression_lock — re-check it any time from /locks. See Operator systems.
Drive your editor over a local server
Expose the agent loop to Zed and other editors via vanta acp, or point any OpenAI-API tool at vanta proxy. See Integrations.
Let Vanta improve its own codebase
vanta improve suggests fixes; vanta factory approve implements them at your autonomy level, each verified. See Self-improvement.
Summarize my inbox every morning
A scheduled task reads Gmail and posts a brief — every send/draft is approval-gated. See Comms & gateway and Autonomy.
Text my agent from Telegram
Run the always-on gateway and message Vanta from your phone; it replies through the kernel-gated loop. See Comms & gateway.
A today brief across goals + calendar
/today pulls tasks, goals, calendar, and recent memory into one JARVIS-style brief. See Commands.
Remember me across sessions
The brain distils durable memories and a knowledge graph of facts, recalled on later turns. See Skills & memory and Knowledge graph.
Run a lightweight Money OS
Track offers, prospects, and revenue; get a weekly review and a price band. See Operator systems.
Scan for opportunities, draft the offer
The opportunity radar scores leads by pain × buyer-signal and drafts an offer you can promote into the pipeline. See Operator systems.
Vet a contract or offer before you sign
The protect tool flags scams, credential leaks, pressure tactics, and contract traps. See Security.
A chief-of-staff per project
Project rooms give each codebase its own goal stream; background teams dispatch scoped workers. See Modes & rooms and Autonomy.
Cited, fact-checked deep research
/deep-research fans out searches, fetches sources, adversarially verifies, and synthesizes a cited report. See Commands.
Build a durable reference library
Ingest URLs, files, and transcripts with ref_ingest; search them later without re-pasting. See Knowledge graph & references.
See and hear, not just read
Capture a selected area, window, or all displays; paste an image; read the camera; transcribe audio; and speak. See Sight & screen context and Tools.
Decide what to build before building
Solutioning mode turns goals + research into a ranked recommendation, then stops. See Modes & routing.
Run unattended on a schedule
Cron tasks + the gateway daemon let Vanta act while you're away — kept on-task by standing loops. See Autonomy.
Self-host it, keep keys out of files
Run offline on local Ollama; fetch keys from 1Password/Vault via api_key_helper; sandbox execution. See Settings & secrets.
Tune autonomy to your comfort
Permission + auto modes decide what prompts vs runs; the operator profile only ever tightens. See Permissions & hooks.
Want to add a real use case here? These map to shipped features — see the Examples page for runnable versions, or the Tool reference for everything available.