Requirements & Compatibility

Deployment types and prerequisites for using Agent Mode

Agent Mode requires access to cloud-based LLM services for inference. This page covers which deployment types support Agent Mode and what setup is needed.

Supported Deployments

Deployment Type	Agent Mode	Setup Required
groundcover Cloud	Yes	None
BYOC AWS	Yes	None
BYOC GCP	Yes	Enable models in Vertex AI
BYOC Azure	No	Not currently supported
On-premises (AWS/GCP)	Yes	Contact your account team

No cost until you use it. Agent Mode is enabled by default on supported deployments, but you're only billed for LLM inference when users actually start using the Agent. The setup difference between AWS and GCP exists because Google Cloud requires customers to explicitly approve third-party Anthropic models in Vertex AI Model Garden before they can be invoked - AWS Bedrock has no equivalent gate.

For on-premises deployments on AWS or GCP, groundcover can provision the required LLM services (AWS Bedrock or Google Cloud Vertex AI) to enable Agent Mode. Contact your groundcover account team to set this up.

GCP BYOC setup

GCP BYOC deployments require manually enabling the Anthropic Claude models in your project's Vertex AI Model Garden before Agent Mode will work. See Enable AI models for Agent Mode for step-by-step instructions.

All other supported deployment types work out of the box with no additional setup.