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Velatir for Desktop is a small agent that runs in the background on each device. Once installed it needs nothing from your team, and everything it does is managed from Velatir.

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What it does

  • Covers AI in the browser. The installer deploys the Velatir browser extension with your organisation’s ingest key, so prompts and responses in web AI tools become traces.
  • Sees AI apps on the device. It detects which supported AI applications are installed, and can report when an AI-native app is launched.
  • Ingests coding assistant activity. The agent configures supported coding assistants on the device to send their activity to it over OpenTelemetry. See Coding assistants.
  • Updates itself. The agent keeps itself current automatically, with no update service to manage.

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Coding assistants

The agent writes each tool’s managed telemetry settings on the device, and their prompts and tool use become traces your agents review. This is on by default for new organisations. If your organisation was set up earlier, contact support to turn it on. The agent only adds its own settings. If a tool already sends its telemetry to another destination you manage, the agent leaves that tool as it is. Removing Velatir for Desktop removes the settings it added.
Restart the tool after the agent has configured it, since most tools read these settings at start-up. GitHub Copilot settings delivered through your own MDM or from your GitHub organisation take priority over the device file, and a person can turn Gemini CLI telemetry off on their own machine. In those cases, that tool’s activity stays out of Velatir.

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Managed capabilities

The installer is the same across an organisation’s devices; Velatir applies the organisation’s capability configuration after installation. The agent can manage device identity and health, browser coverage, local AI-app detection, directory identity, and updates independently. A missing or unavailable configuration fails safe: the device does not invent a capability setting. Browser policy is ownership-aware. Organisations can have Velatir manage supported browser installation, write only the identity values while their own MDM manages installation, or leave browser policy entirely to their MDM. The agent removes only policy it owns. The device reports its versions, health, update outcome, browser-delivery posture, and directory identity in its heartbeat. This lets Velatir stage updates, halt an unhealthy rollout, and diagnose a device without requiring a reinstall.

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Next steps

Permissions

What Velatir asks for on each platform, and why.

Enterprise deployment

Silent install and MDM rollouts.

Download and install

Install on Windows or macOS.

Troubleshooting

Diagnose install, update, and delivery issues.