Posts tagged "governance"
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Agent architecture is not application architecture: the agentix pattern
Application architecture structures code. Agent architecture decides who may do what at run time. The agentix pattern - one MCP server per system, one agent per step - is our answer.
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What is an agent harness, and why do harnesses keep shrinking?
An agent harness is the loop and scaffolding around a model. As models improve, much of it moves into the model or the API. What stays is governance, and that is why open-agentix treats the harness as replaceable.
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Dark software factory: only for MVPs and PoCs
Letting agents build software with minimal human touch can be a fast way to a prototype. open-agentix offers it as an opt-in mode with a fixed notice, and keeps approval gates for production.
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Cost is a platform concern: budgets, per-agent and per-tenant attribution, export
Agent systems can fail financially while working technically. open-agentix prices every step, attributes it to tenant, agent and use case, stops runs at their budget and exports the lines.
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A model may ask, the policy decides: deterministic gates and tamper-evident audit
In open-agentix a model can request a tool call but never authorises it. A deterministic policy gate decides before each call, and a hash-chained audit trail records what it decided.