Demo Mode & Zero-Migration Upgradeability

Demo Mode

Every surface introduced in v5 — the nine Observe Platform surfaces, the Fleet honeycomb, the Optimize comparison, and the full Insider Risk workspace — can be populated with realistic demo data when Demo Mode is enabled. Demo Mode is a per-user toggle, so an evaluator or a sales engineer can switch their own session into a fully-populated console without affecting other users or injecting synthetic data into another operator’s live view.

This solves the classic “empty dashboard” problem on day one: before any live agent traffic exists, a reviewer can open the console and immediately see representative KPIs, model-usage breakdowns, a populated fleet grid, direct-vs-optimized savings, and firing Agent Risk Indicators with sample cases and enforcement standings.

Property	Behavior
Scope	Per user (toggled on that user’s own session)
Coverage	All Observe Platform surfaces + Fleet + Optimize + Insider Risk
Data	Realistic, representative sample values
Effect on live data	None — it is a presentation toggle, not a data-writing operation

Zero-Migration Upgradeability

None of the v5 capabilities — Observe Platform, AgentFleet, AgentKeel, Insider Risk, or Demo Mode — requires a database schema migration. All new configuration and state persist in the existing settings store. Consequently, upgrading an existing deployment to v5 is a plain image swap, with no migration step, no ALTER TABLE window, and no backfill to babysit:

cd ~/AgentWatch
docker compose down
docker compose pull
docker compose up -d
# wait for /health to report healthy and confirm the version bump

Because there is no migration, the upgrade is also trivially reversible — rolling back is the same image-swap in reverse. Settings written by v5 features are simply ignored by an older image, and the newer image reads them back if you roll forward again.

This continues the operational philosophy of §7.16: one source of truth for configuration, and upgrades that a single operator can perform in minutes during a normal maintenance window.

8. AgentWatch Connect Agent

The AgentWatch Connect Agent is a lightweight local proxy that intercepts AI traffic at the network level, enabling governance for web-based AI chat interfaces (ChatGPT, Claude.ai, etc.) and API traffic without requiring application code changes.