Cisco Catalyst Center vs Sanctum Runtime

Cisco Catalyst Center has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

Sanctum Runtime is middleware that checks actions from AI agents, robots, and automated systems before they are carried out. It evaluates proposed actions against policies and can approve them, ask for verification, or block them. Operators can review, approve, deny, or escalate actions through web and mobile workflows. The product describes behavioral monitoring, audit logs, policy history, and decision trails for runtime visibility and incident review. Its open-core runtime supports local policy checks and offline verification, including local Ollama risk scoring. Documented integrations include OpenAI, Claude/MCP, Gemini-style function calling, DeepSeek, Grok, Bedrock-compatible endpoints, NVIDIA NIM, custom agents, and local runtimes. Developers can use Node and Python SDKs, an MCP wrapper, ROS2-oriented policy packs, and smart-home and embodied-agent templates. The repository is described as MIT-licensed and self-hostable; a hosted console and proxy path are also available. The product identifies itself as embedded runtime middleware, not a standalone consumer app or robot controller. Some enterprise capabilities, including fleet orchestration and organization-wide policy sync, are private.