Get StartedThe laptop that can spend, delete, and leak: put permission limits, a kill switch, and an audit trail around the agents you run on your own machine.
A single AI agent on your own laptop already has more reach than most people realize. It can call paid APIs, run shell commands, read and write your files, open network connections, and act on whatever accounts you handed it a key for. You built it to be helpful, so you gave it access. The problem is that nothing sits between the agent's next decision and your real money, your real files, and your real credentials. A loop, a bad prompt, or an unexpected chain of tool calls, and the agent does something at machine speed that you would never have approved by hand. Governance is what turns an agent you hope behaves into one you can bound, watch, and stop.
You leave an agent running and a retry loop keeps it calling a paid API or a cloud service all night. By morning it has quietly spent far more than you ever meant to, and nothing capped how fast or how much it could consume.
An agent decides the quickest path is to delete a directory or force-push over your branch. It runs the command at once, and work you cannot easily get back is gone before you notice.
An agent writes an API key or a secret into a log line, a commit, or a message where it should never appear. Now a private credential is sitting somewhere you did not intend, one copy away from being someone else's.
A chain of tool calls carries the agent into a system you never meant it to touch, a production endpoint or an account with real consequences, because nothing enforced the boundary of what it was actually allowed to reach.
See every agent you are running and the tools, keys, and systems each one can touch, so nothing is acting on your machine without your knowledge. An agent you have not registered is held to read-only until you scope it.
Set hard limits on how fast and how much an agent can spend, and bound exactly which commands, files, and systems it may reach. An action outside the bounds you set is refused and recorded, not run.
When something looks wrong, a single command stops the agent immediately, and the halt holds rather than silently letting it resume. You do not have to chase down a process or hope it notices a stop signal.
Keep a tamper-evident log of every action an agent took, so when something goes wrong you can see exactly what happened, in what order, and why, instead of guessing from scattered logs.
A tamper-evident, hash-linked trail of every governance decision for this workload: what an agent did, under whose authorization, and why. Plain-English reasons for every allow and deny, exportable to the framework your auditors care about.
| Agent | Type | Status | Module | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| lead-research-agent | Research | Active | RuntimeMonitor | 92 |
| inbox-triage-agent | Support | Active | AuditLogger | 88 |
| supplier-review-agent | Procurement | Monitored | PermissionRouter | 74 |
| bookkeeping-agent | Finance | Quarantined | HaltProtocol | 41 |
| contract-draft-agent | Legal | Monitored | EthicsConstraint | 79 |
| weekly-report-agent | Reporting | Active | DecisionLog | 90 |
| Agent | Action | Policy | Result | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PermissionRouter | data_access_request | vendor-access | Blocked | 12:42:08 |
| AuditLogger | output_validation | audit-trail | Allowed | 12:41:54 |
| TrustScorer | policy_check | runtime-score | Allowed | 12:41:37 |
| RuntimeMonitor | behavior_drift | drift-threshold | Flagged | 12:40:58 |
| HaltProtocol | halt_initiated | unsafe-action | Blocked | 12:40:21 |
| EthicsConstraint | prompt_review | restricted-output | Flagged | 12:39:46 |
| DecisionLog | evidence_recorded | decision-proof | Allowed | 12:39:12 |
| Block | Timestamp | Agent | Action | Tier | Hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40,920 | Today 12:42:08 | lead-research-agent | data_access_request | Evaluator | 93c57b65e2492012 |
| 40,919 | Today 12:41:54 | inbox-triage-agent | output_validation | Analyst | c660425dc4db776d |
| 40,918 | Today 12:41:37 | supplier-review-agent | policy_check | Builder | 8978ad296a109b5f |
| 40,917 | Today 12:40:58 | bookkeeping-agent | behavior_drift | Operator | 061c14bfaa3b5457 |
| 40,916 | Today 12:40:21 | contract-draft-agent | halt_initiated | Strategist | dcf5a0bd5f0ac36c |
| 40,915 | Today 12:39:46 | weekly-report-agent | prompt_review | Evaluator | 3e71514ed4250a1e |