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Scope every tool an agent can use.

Each tool is allowed per role and per action, read first.

“Agents connect to tools and servers nobody reviewed.”

A new tool server appearsAn agent tries a payments toolA read inside scope

Control in three steps

Each tool is allowed per role and per action, read first.

STEP 01

Check who is asking

Every person and agent is named, with a role from your directory.

STEP 02

Allow, ask or decline

Inside the role it runs. Changes wait. Outside the role, declined.

STEP 03

Record it

Every step lands in the audit trail.

See it work

Watch it happen.

Step 1 of 4: Request

Ops agent · OperationsOperations agent

“Initiate a refund of KES 12,000 to account ending 4471.”

Every request starts with a named person and a named agent.

audit_log
09:14:02requestops-agent · ops-agent · payments.refund
09:14:02policy· · ·
09:14:02declined· · ·
09:14:02logged· · ·

Simplified example. Names and records are invented.

Text version

Ops agent (Operations) asks Operations agent: "Initiate a refund of KES 12,000 to account ending 4471." The role check returns: Declined. Every step is written to the audit log.

  1. 01 Request

    Ops agent · Operations · Operations agent

    Initiate a refund of KES 12,000 to account ending 4471.

  2. 02 Role check

    Declined

    Role
    Operations agent (from your directory)
    Read
    Allowed
    Change
    Not allowed for this role

    The payments tool is outside this agent's scope. Declined.

  3. 03 Human approval

    Not needed

    Declined at the role check. It never reached an approver.

  4. 04 Audit log

    • 09:14:02 · request · ops-agent · ops-agent · payments.refund
    • 09:14:02 · policy · role=ops-agent · read=allow · change=deny
    • 09:14:02 · declined · tool outside scope · payments.refund
    • 09:14:02 · logged · event 7f3a…e21 · on the record

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