> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.synheart.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Synapse

> Rules your team's coding agents follow, organization knowledge inside every agent, and a weekly view of AI spend

Synapse is the layer between your engineering team and the AI coding tools it uses. It does three things:

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Agents follow your rules" icon="shield-check" href="/synapse/rules">
    Team rules are checked before an agent pushes, merges, deletes or edits. A rule can stop the action or ask a person first.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Agents know your decisions" icon="brain" href="/synapse/connect-agents">
    Any MCP agent can recall what your organization decided and why, from repositories, Notion, Drive and Slack.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Leaders see spend and risk" icon="chart-line" href="/synapse/ai-spend">
    What you pay for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, which seats go unused, and what agents were stopped from doing.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Who does what

| Role | Does | Guide |
| - | - | - |
| Admin (CTO, platform lead) | Connects GitHub and AI vendors, writes the team rules, turns on the weekly summary | [Set up your team](/synapse/admin-setup) |
| Developer | Installs the CLI once; their coding agent then follows the team rules | [Developer setup](/synapse/developer-setup) |

## What Synapse collects

Synapse reports on teams, not people.

* **Agent rules.** Each developer's machine sends day totals per rule: how many times it stopped an action, asked, or was let through. Never the command, the file, the prompt or the repository.
* **Team views have a floor.** The team report and per-team rows appear only when enough people contribute (your organization's cohort floor). Below it, totals are withheld rather than shown, so a total can't describe one person.
* **AI spend.** Vendor data is reduced to counts and totals as it's read: seats, active users, sessions, estimated cost. No login, email or per-person usage is stored.
* **Organization knowledge.** Only sources an admin designates are indexed, and source permissions still apply when content is recalled.

## Requirements

* A Synapse organization at [synapse.synheart.ai](https://synapse.synheart.ai).
* Coding agents: rules are enforced in **Claude Code**. Organization knowledge works in any MCP client (Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop).
* The [Synheart CLI](/setup/install-cli) 0.18.0 or later on each developer's machine (macOS, Linux or Windows).


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